Sunday, Oct 13th 2024 @ 6:00 pm ADT
venue | Fortress of Louisbourg Chapel |
locale | Louisbourg |
price | $150 |
Performers: Jim Payne & Fergus O’Byrne & Cathy Ann MacPhee & Brenda Stubbert & Blanche Sophocleous
Two of Newfoundland’s most respected performers, Jim Payne and Fergus O’Byrne combine instrumental prowess and humorous repartee to cover a broad spectrum of Newfoundland folk culture including songs, stories, and dance tunes. Their repertoire includes rousing sea shanties and work songs, poignant ballads, comic ditties, folk tales and recitations, and toe-tapping jigs, reels, and polkas on a variety of instruments. Notre Dame Bay native Jim Payne (vocals, accordion, mandola, guitar) is a leading performer, collector, and producer of traditional Newfoundland music. He is also one of the province’s most prolific songwriters, as well as being a singer of traditional songs, a storyteller, writer, actor, step dancer, and instructor and caller of traditional Newfoundland set and square dances. Fergus O’Byrne (vocals, 5 string banjo, guitar, bodhran, concertina), originally from Ireland, became a familiar voice on radio and television as a member of the renowned folk group, Ryan’s Fancy, with whom he recorded 14 albums. Since then, he has followed a busy solo and freelance career, touring throughout Canada, the United States, Europe, Hong Kong, and Australia. He can be heard on recordings by Newfoundland artists Great Big Sea, and he has contributed to several anthologies of Newfoundland music. As a duo they’ve been touring nationally and internationally for almost thirty years and have also developed a curriculum-based school presentation that they’ve toured throughout Newfoundland and Labrador and beyond for the last twenty years.
venue | Fortress of Louisbourg Chapel |
locale | Louisbourg |
price | $150 |
Performers: Jim Payne & Fergus O’Byrne & Cathy Ann MacPhee & Brenda Stubbert & Blanche Sophocleous
venue | St. Matthew-Wesley United Church |
locale | Leitches Creek |
price | $40 |
Performers: Jim Payne & Fergus O’Byrne • Ian MacDougall & Mac Morin • The Gilberts
venue | Riverdale Community Centre |
locale | Lower River Inhabitants |
price | $40 |
Performers: Jim Payne & Fergus O’Byrne • Doyle, McAuley and McAuley • Donna Marie DeWolfe & Joël Chiasson
venue | L'Arche Cape Breton Gathering Place |
locale | Iron Mines |
price | $40 |
Performers: Jim Payne & Fergus O’Byrne • Hailee LeFort Trio • Rob MacLean
venue | West Mabou Hall |
locale | West Mabou |
price | $15 |
A unique and informative exploration of percussive dance dialects from different regions of the world, featuring local dancers and guest festival artists. No reservations, just…