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Aug 31
Concert in the Harbour with Fergus O'Byrne and Jim Payne
8 pm $15
Two of Newfoundland's most respected performers 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.
Jim Payne (vocals, accordion, mandola, guitar)
A native of Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland, Jim Payne 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. He has performed extensively on radio and television both in Canada and abroad, and has toured throughout North America, the US, Europe, Japan and Australia.
An ECMA nominee, Jim owns and operates his own record label, SingSong Inc., which has released twenty seven titles to date featuring traditional and contemporary music that reflects the Newfoundland experience. They include recordings by legendary Newfoundland traditional musicians as well as those by contemporary folk and traditional artists.
He has appeared in most of Rising Tide Theatre's annual REVUEs, and is also member of the Newfoundland band A Crowd of Bold Sharemen. In April 2005, along with Fergus O'Byrne, he was the recipient of the inaugural Arts In Education Award by the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council. He is a recipient of the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council's Outstanding Cultural Achievement Award, and teaches a course in traditional Newfoundland accordion music at Memorial University's School of Music.
Fergus O'Byrne (vocals, 5 string banjo, guitar, bodhran, concertina)
Fergus, 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. Fergus has also developed a curriculum-based school production that he tours throughout Newfoundland and Labrador.
Fergus was a member of the celebrated Newfoundland traditional band Tickle Harbour, whose album Battery Included, besides being an ECMA nominee, won three awards at the 1999 Newfoundland Music Industry Association Awards. In 2001 he produced a Ryan's Fancy retrospective CD Songs From The Shows, featuring songs from the renowned 1970's CBC National television series, Ryan's Fancy and in 2011 he produced the highly acclaimed CD Ryan's Fancy & What A Time!
In 2004, as part of Ryan's Fancy, he received the ECMA's Dr. Helen Creighton Lifetime Achievement Award, which recognizes an individual who has had a profound and lasting effect on the Atlantic Canadian Music Industry. In 2010 he was awarded Music Educator of the year by MUSICNL and in 2011 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Arts Society. Along with Jim Payne, he is a member of the Newfoundland band A Crowd of Bold Sharemen. For the last thirteen years he has produced a program for young folk and traditional musicians under the auspices of the Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Arts Society and other folk organizations around the province.
