Will Gillespie
&
Brian Tremblay:
2 Northern Troubadours
Tour 2025
Singer-Songwriters Will Gillespie and Brian Tremblay are teaming up and hitting the road across Northern Ontario in Autumn 2025 to perform songs from their respective concept Folk albums:
"MINE! True Stories and Legends of the Porcupine Gold Rush"
(Will Gillespie)
&
"In the Tracks of the Black Bear"
(Brian Tremblay)
Thursday, October 2nd
Ertaminger Clergue
National Historic Site
800 Bay Street
Sault Ste. Marie, ON
7:00-10:00pm
Saturday, October 4th
Knox Hall
73 Larch Street
Sudbury, ON
7:00-10:00pm
Saturday, October 11th
Timmins Museum
National Exhibition Centre
325 Second Avenue
Timmins, ON
7:00pm-10:00pm
Free Admission
Will Gillespie & Brian Tremblay: 2 Northern Troubadours - in Concert on Tour - is Brand-New Old-Time Music. A concert of new songs in old styles, telling stories in song, from different chapters in the history of Northern Ontario.
Singer-Songwriter Will Gillespie performs songs from his original Northern Ontario History-themed concept album and song-cycle : "MINE! True Stories and Legends of the Porcupine Gold Rush" Performing it as a kind of Campfire Cabaret, taking the audience on a musical journey back in time to a lost world of prospectors, pioneers, bootlegger-bandits, high-graders, dogsledders and moonshiners... written in historical styles from Bluegrass to Ragtime to Concert Hall, Hot Jazz, Barrelhouse Blues, Waltzes and MORE!! featuring projected backdrops of original Northern Ontario landscape paintings by visual Artist Susan Robinson and historical photos from the collection at the Timmins Museum National Exhibition Centre of the real people, places and events Will will be singing about.
Opening the show is Folk, Blues and Country Troubadour Brian Tremblay, performing songs from his own Northern Ontario history concept album: "In the Tracks of the Black Bear" about the Algoma Rail line with Lynn Eckroth singing with him.
Brian's father worked for the Algoma Central Railway before and after the war. His uncles and cousins also worked for the railway. His siblings were born in Northern Ontario rail towns like Hawk Junction and Chapleau. Trains run in the Tremblay family blood. Tremblay has written new songs inspired by the ACR, combined with traditional railroad songs that so many will sing along with. In the Tracks of the Black Bear celebrates the Algoma Central Railway, the people who built it and the people who worked on it.
This tour is made possible thanks to the support of the Ontario Arts Council