Wednesday, October 1st

-BRUCE MINES-

Bruce Mines United Church

18 Williams Street

Bruce Mines, ON

7:00-10:00pm

(presented by:

the Bruce Mines & District

Historical Society

and

Bruce Mines Museum)

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Thursday, October 2nd

-SAULT STE. MARIE-

Ertaminger Clergue

National Historic Site

800 Bay Street

Sault Ste. Marie, ON

7:00-10:00pm

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Friday, October 3rd

-BLIND RIVER-

Timber Village Museum

1 Hagger Rd.

Blind River, ON

7:00-10:00pm

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Saturday, October 4th

-SUDBURY-

Knox Hall

73 Larch Street

Sudbury, ON

7:00-10:00pm

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*Sunday, October 5th*

-CAPREOL-

Northern Ontario Railroad Museum

and

Heritage Centre

59 Young Street

Capreol, ON

1:00pm-3:00pm

*(SPECIAL "Express" Matinee)*

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Sunday, October 5th

-WEST NIPISSING-

Shuswap on the Nipissing

Resort Camp

349 Shuswap Road

Monetville, ON

7:00-10:00pm

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Tueday, October 7th

-NORTH BAY-

North Bay Museum

100 Ferguson Road

North Bay, ON

7:00-10:00pm

(part of North Bay Centennial Celebrations)

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Wednesday, October 8th

-TEMISKAMING SHORES-

Temiskaming Art Gallery

325 Farr Drive

Haileybury, ON

7:00-10:00pm

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Thursday, October 9th

-KIRKLAND LAKE-

Museum of Northern History

at the 

Sir Harry Oakes Chateau

2 Chateau Drive

Kirkland Lake, ON

7:00-10:00pm

(presented by:

the Oakes Project Heritage and Tourism

and

the Ontario Heritage Trust)

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Friday, October 10th

-ELK LAKE-

Royal Canadian Legion

Branch 310

175 Pine St.

Elk Lake, ON

7:00-10:00pm

(presented by:

the Elk Lake Heritage Museum

and

the Jack Munroe Historical Society)

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Saturday, October 11th

-TIMMINS-

Timmins Museum

National Exhibition Centre

325 Second Avenue

Timmins, ON

7:00pm-10:00pm

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Will Gillespie & Brian Tremblay: 2 Northern Troubadours - Songs & Stories of Northern Ontario - is a concert of new songs in old styles, telling stories from different unsung 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.

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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 harmonies and playing percussion with him. 

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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.

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This tour is made possible thanks to the support of the Ontario Arts Council

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#ArtsAddValue

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www.willgillespie.ca

www.briantmusic.com

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