Artists
The Call of the Drum
TorQ Percussion Quartet
Bone Lake Amphitheatre
TorQ Percussion Quartet constructs a world of sound based on rhythm, with virtuosic command of a bewildering variety of plucked, struck and even bowed instruments from around the globe. The group’s presentations are carefully planned, almost choreographed, and frequently employ humour. TorQ compositions can be spacious and soothing, inducing an almost trance-like state in the listener with their slowly unfolding melodic journeys. Other selections are no-holds-barred, visually arresting showpieces that will cause a riot of echoes to ricochet around our wilderness lake, lingering long after the last note is struck. The quartet includes Rich Burrows, Jamie Drake, Daniel Morphy and Adam Campbell, who returns to Bone Lake after his performances in our 2007 production of R. Murray Schafer's Princess of Stars.
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Orange Blossom Special
The Spinney Brothers
Bone Lake Amphitheatre
Bluegrass is irresistible, feel-good acoustic music and The Spinney Brothers are the real deal, with a list of East Coast bluegrass and country awards as long as your arm. Why, these boys from the bluegrass-rich Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia are so good they’re receiving more and more invitations from the very places that grew the music in the first place: the Carolinas, Tennessee and Kentucky.
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Under the Big, Big Sky
Russell de Carle
Bone Lake Amphitheatre
Russell deCarle has a great voice—a familiar voice that's helped Praire Oyster round up four number one country hits over the years, several gold and platinum CDs plus Juno and Canadian Country Music Awards. He continues to write music based on life experiences he holds dear to his heart: "Emotionally I think I've always been affected by the bluesy side of life; that's always been what stirs it up for me."
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Take This Waltz
Patricia O'Callaghan
Historic Logging Museum
At age seventeen Patricia O'Callaghan decided she should become an opera singer (she previously couldn't decide whether to become a rock star or a nun). Today, she is your ideal introduction to the world of cabaret—a world that Billboard Magazine, reviewing one of her discs, called "serious but satirical, seamy yet sophisticated, an intimate setting for the archly cerebral and the utterly sincere; a stray, turn-of-the-century form of chanson that wandered in off the street, slipped through the interludes of Europe's music hall heyday, and found refuge in the wine cellar of the adjacent cafe."
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Play That Funky Music
Grooveyard
Historic Logging Museum
Once again, Saturday night means party night at The Forest Festival. Unsure whether or not to bring your dancing shoes? Just kick off whatever you're wearing and dance barefoot, because Grooveyard is a sizzling and soulful Toronto band with an eclectic repertoire and a performance energy that will loosen nails in The Logging Museum's historic timbers.
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Jazz at the Woodyard
Dave Young Quartet
Historic Logging Museum
Dave Young is a quiet, deferential man with a twinkle in his eye. But with a deeply burnished double bass fiddle in his hands he can suddenly and miraculously channel the true and authentic spirit of jazz, accessing endless reserves of melodic and rhythmic invention. For this, he's a multiple winner of National Jazz Award's "Bassist of the Year" and has been named Member of The Order of Canada.
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Heartstrings
Stuart Laughton
Free Concert in the Historic Logging Museum
The doors will be wide open and admission free when Porkbelly Futures founder and multi-instrumentalist Stuart Laughton (no stranger to The Forest Festival) steps forward to sing from his constantly evolving collection of favourite songs—perhaps by Merle Haggard, Mark Knopfler, Nina Simone, Lyle Lovett, Tony Quarrington, James Taylor, Lucinda Williams, Willie P. Bennett or Jim Cuddy. Threatening to steal the show at all times will be master pedal steel guitarist Burke Carroll and the incomparable Dave Young on bass.
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The Gardens of Lebanon
Sultans of String
Bone Lake Amphitheatre
Six-string violinist and Sultans of String bandleader Chris McKhool traces his roots to Lebanon (where his name is spelled Makhoul) and Egypt. It's understandable, then, that the seductive thread of Arabic music is part of who he is. Chris's passion for exploring rhythms and melodies has led him to the far corners of the world, collecting instruments and styles everywhere he went. A chance encounter with Kevin Laliberté and his rumba guitar resulted in the creation of the Sultans sound, what one writer has called "atomic world-jazz flamenco." Virtuosic musicians on bass, percussion and guitar complete an ensemble that comes as close as any to embracing "the world in one band."
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