Our Calendar of Events
EHAC offers workshops and concerts each season, creating opportunities for artistic expression and skill development. Based on a curated mix of genres and popularity, and mindful of our superb acoustics, up and coming musicians are invited to perform in our extraordinary space. Workshops are offered whenever teaching professionals visit the Bight and express interest in sharing their craft. Or perhaps an artist in residence will offer a class. Every season is different. Have a look at this season's offerings.
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Events for August 2017
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Aug 01
Red Moon Road
8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Fee: $20.00Red Moon Road makes a much bigger sound than one would expect from a trio. With Sheena front and center, flanked by "her two Daniels", it's a visually-appealing, high-energy and well-choreographed show incorporating: impeccable three-part harmonies, a roots drum kit split entertainingly but pragmatically between Sheena and the "Hatted-Daniel" (who also strums an acoustic guitar with an extra custom pickup allowing him to simultaneously play bass), the Franco-Manitoban "Moustached-Daniel" covering lead parts on mandolin, banjo, lap steel, and organ (sometimes within the same song) while Sheena's unmistakable heart-moving and soulful voice soars above it all. The commanding and engaging presentation is equal parts polished songwriting, undeniable musicianship, spontaneous repartee and seamlessly-blended, masterful storytelling the last a dimension in which the band is both renown and unique.
Tickets available at eventbrite.ca
Limited seating at the door or call 464-2424
(Note that this event is part of the Trinity Bight Folk festival (in conjunction with Two Whales Coffee Shop) which includes five shows and a free beer at the Port Rexton brewery. For details go back to the calendar and click on the Festival event.) -
Aug 01
Trinity Bight Folk Festival
8:00 p.m. to August 10th, 8:00 p.m.
Fee: $80.00Join us for the first annual Trinity Bight Folk Festival!
Two Whales Coffee Shop and English Harbour Arts Association are teaming up to bring you five shows in ten days. Port Rexton Brewery is stepping up with a free beer for festival fans!
Here's the deal:Buy a festival ticket for $80 and see all the shows. Take your ticket to the Brewery and get a celebratory beer. Not bad eh! Individual shows are still available at $20.
(This is a recent development and we realize that some people have already bought tickets online for some English Harbour shows. In that case EH will be glad to refund those purchasers if they would rather have a festival ticket.)
Tickets are available at eventbrite.ca (enter Trinity Bight Folk festival)
Or you can pick them up at Two Whales Coffee Shop or English Harbour Arts Centre. There may be tickets available at the doors also but they would be at the regular price of $20. -
Aug 02
Drop in art
Please join Deb Wickwire for drawing, painting, listening to music, sharing knowledge and art experiences.
Bring your work, or start something new. We will set up a still life, or perhaps find a live model.
We have some art supplies, but best to bring your own.
No charge... unless we find a model which will be $10. -
Aug 05
Gordie Tentrees
8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Fee: $20.00Master storyteller and multi-instrumental performer Gordie Tentrees has arrived. His sixth album "Less is More" brings together his knack for melody with his amazing ability to hold an audience in the palm of his hands (both during and between songs) and is a deeply personal, moving, melodic and sometimes humorous look at life through the eyes of a unique and infectious personality. Yukon based, Ontario raised, farm boy, golden glove boxer, school teacher, youth counselor turned folk artist Tentrees has released 6 records touring North America, UK, Australia and Europe up to 200 concerts each year, nominated for Western Canadian Music Awards, International Song Competitions and toured with Kelly Joe Phelps, Fred Eaglesmith, Steve Poltz and Mary Gauthier. Produced by Juno award winner Bob Hamilton, the album features Tentrees blend of folk, roots and blues sounds on 11 tracks including "Camelot Hotel" written by Mary Gauthier. Tentrees plays dobro, guitar, harmonica, with stellar accompaniment from Aiden Tentrees on upright bass & Fabian Brook on guitar and fiddle. The album also includes guest appearances by Yukon musician Patrick Hamilton, Annie Avery, Lonnie Powell and the voice of east coast darling 2015 Juno winner Catherine MacLellan.
"Sounds like an album Woody Guthrie or Bob Dylan might have done if they were starting out today" Irish Post (4/5 Stars)
Tickets available at eventbrite.ca
Limited seating at the door or call 464-2424
(Note that this event is part of the Trinity Bight Folk festival (in conjunction with Two Whales Coffee Shop) which includes five shows and a free beer at the Port Rexton brewery. For details go back to the calendar and click on the Festival event.) -
Aug 08
Dave Panting with Greg Simm
8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Fee: $20.00Nova Scotia's Greg Simm and Newfoundland's Dave Panting.
This acoustic duo draw on musical savvy and experience combined
with a relaxed and spontaneous stage presence to take you on a
"string driven ride down the backroads of Britain, Ireland and North America".
Their set is a balanced mix of songs and instrumentals from several genres:
including Celtic folk, country blues and swing.
DAVE PANTING BIO
A multi - instrumentalist, singer, composer and producer who hails from St. John's, NL.,
Dave has four decades as a fulltime professional musician under his belt.
He plays acoustic and electric guitar, members of the mandolin family, banjo and bass as well as Greek bouzouki, durass and baglamas.
He is a founding member of the influential Newfoundland folk band Figgy Duff and Atlantic Canada's award winning multi genre group Rawlins Cross.
For five years he was a member of the Irish Descendants, Juno award winners and one of Newfoundland's longstanding musical mainstays.
Dave has toured all over Canada as well as in the UK, Ireland, USA, Europe and Scandinavia, Mexico and South America.
He is a long time AF of M,SOCAN and Music NL member as well as being a winner of the Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival's lifetime achievement award.
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GREG SIMM BIO
Greg has been performing music across Canada and beyond for the last forty years.
Also a product of the WRHS music program under the direction of Brian Johnston, Greg has recorded, toured and performed with artists as musically diverse as
Denny Doherty (Mamas & Papas), Gordon Stobbe (Up Home Tonight) and Kendra MacGillivray.
His folk trio Prairie Sea featuring Jim Bell and Kim deLaforest has recently released their second CD "Distance".
Greg continues to travel to Nunavut twice a year to teach music to Inuit Youth in remote Arctic communities with Tusaranaarniq Sivumut (www.musicforthefuture.ca).
In 2015, he was named a lifetime friend of the Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival.
Tickets available at eventbrite.ca
Limited seating at the door or call 464-2424
(Note that this event is part of the Trinity Bight Folk festival (in conjunction with Two Whales Coffee Shop) which includes five shows and a free beer at the Port Rexton brewery. For details go back to the calendar and click on the Festival event.) -
Aug 09
Drop in art
Please join Deb Wickwire for drawing, painting, listening to music, sharing knowledge and art experiences.
Bring your work, or start something new. We will set up a still life, or perhaps find a live model.
We have some art supplies, but best to bring your own.
No charge... unless we find a model which will be $10. -
Aug 11
Nick Earle and Joseph Coffin
8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Fee: $20.00Nick Earle and Joe Coffin are emerging blues artists from St. John's, NL who have released their debut album "Nick Earle and Joe Coffin Live at The Citadel House", earning them award nominations for MusicNL Jazz/Blues Recording of the Year and Canadian Folk Music Award for Young Performer of the Year. Adopting a distinctive style which is well beyond their years, they draw inspiration from blues greats such as Robert Johnson, Eric Clapton and Muddy Waters. Rich soulful vocals and exceptional guitar playing are just two of the descriptions that come to mind when watching these two execute their skills. Earle and Coffin have already performed with many of Newfoundland's top roots and blues musicians and have learned to demonstrate the utmost professionalism and style.
(Update: The guys won "Young performer of the Year" at the Canadian Folk Music Awards!)
Tickets available at eventbrite.ca
Limited seating at the door or call 464-2424 -
Aug 15
Community concert/open mic hosted by Brian Hiscock
Come on out and bring your guitar, accordion, banjo or flugelhorn. Sing, yodel, recite or amaze us with your air guitar....or your air flugelhorn.
We are looking for all levels of talent and if you are Bruce Springsteen or buddy from up in the droke the pay is the same. This is a chance for all hands to try out their talents and, who knows, there might be a scout or two in the audience. Next stop Hollywood...or Holyrood.
Call 690-7013 to register or have your agent do it for you.
Admission by donation.
BREAKING NEWS! This event will be hosted by Brian Hiscock. The bard of Champneys! -
Aug 16
Drop in art
Please join Deb Wickwire for drawing, painting, listening to music, sharing knowledge and art experiences.
Bring your work, or start something new. We will set up a still life, or perhaps find a live model.
We have some art supplies, but best to bring your own.
No charge... unless we find a model which will be $10. -
Aug 20
Celtic Fiddlers
2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Fee: $20.00The Celtic Fiddlers from St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, are a vibrant group of 13 young professional musicians, ages 14-24. This unique group of fiddlers is accompanied by piano, mandolin, mandola, tin whistle, Irish flute, bodhran, cajone, accordion, banjo, bouzouki, bass, voice, guitar and drums. They have gained an outstanding reputation for their eclectic style and presentation. Collectively the group has mastered 53 instruments!
Tickets available at eventbrite.ca
Limited seating at the door or call 464-2424 -
Aug 22
2017 Nickel Road Show
It's film night at the Centre. Please join us for two productions from the 2017 Nickel Independent film festival.
Admission is by donation.
"I heard the birch tree whisper in the night"
Following Newfoundland artist Gerry Squires as he works to complete his final painting before succumbing to his illness, filmmaker Kenneth Harvey shapes this moving documentary with candid footage of conversations with Squires close family and friends, fellow artists, and the artist himself.
When Gerald Squires passed in Fall 2016, he left an enormous body of work that was rooted fully in the Newfoundland landscape. Though he received many honours for his lifetime contribution of artistic work, perhaps one of the best gifts comes to us through this documentary as Gerry shares his insight on mortality, spirituality and the ongoing quest of the artist to explore the emotional landscape of living and dying.
"Crocuses" A film by Wanda Nolan
On the last day of packing up her home, Rita cant shake the regret she feels about her late husband. -
Aug 23
Drop in art
Please join Deb Wickwire for drawing, painting, listening to music, sharing knowledge and art experiences.
Bring your work, or start something new. We will set up a still life, or perhaps find a live model.
We have some art supplies, but best to bring your own.
No charge... unless we find a model which will be $10.
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