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October 26, 2019 Sharlene Wallace – Harpist
Sharlene Wallace, performs, records and teaches on both Celtic and Classical harps.
September 21, 2019 The Brian Pickell Band
The Brian Pickell Band features the fiddle power of Shane Cook, multiple winner of the Canadian Open and Grand Masters Fiddle Championships. Also driving the music are Ottawa legend James Stephens on fiddle , mandolin and viola, combined with the incomparable tandem of Pat O’Gorman on flute, pipes and whistle and Julie Schryer on keys. Brian Pickell stirs it up with guitar, mandolin, banjo and vocals.
August 3, 2019 – Zigue
Claude Méthé (fiddle, vocals) and Dana Whittle (guitar, foot percussion, vocals) have lived, breathed, created and shared their music across Canada, the US and overseas. Meet the latest member of the Méthé household to hit the road paying music, Aimé (banjo, fiddle, vocals).
May 4, 2019 – Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage
Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage are an acoustic duo that look & sound classically timeless, yet their music is unique. A genuine pleasure to witness on stage.
April 7, 2019 – James Gordon – Rescheduled!
Join us for an intimate afternoon with Canadian folk music icon, James Gordon! In his forty-year career as a solo singer-songwriter and with the ground-breaking trio Tamarack, James Gordon has released forty albums and toured relentlessly around the world. He has penned over 1500 songs (Frobisher Bay, Mining for Gold, Looking for Livingstone), some of […]
February 24, 2019 – Andrew Collins Trio – Rescheduled!
As Collins gathers up innumerable JUNO nominations (5) and Canadian Folk Music Awards (7) won by his various ensembles, he’s zeroing in on the work he does with Trio-mates: fellow string guru Mike Mezzatesta, whose versatility shines through on guitar, mandolin, fiddle and mandola, and in-the-pocket James McEleney holding it down on the bass, mandocello and vocals. Showcasing a dizzying number of styles and instruments on stage, Collins and Co. appear to live by the old adage, “idle hands are the devil’s workshop”, likely keeping them just ahead of his grasp. Bending and blending genres, these musical shape shifters land somewhere between the re-imagined worlds of Béla Fleck and Newgrass invader, David Grisman.
October 20, 2018 – Claude Bourbon
Ready for a unique and talented take on a wide range of musical traditions? New to Mapleview House Concerts, Claude Bourbon is known throughout Europe and America for amazing guitar performances that take blues, Spanish, Middle Eastern, and Russian stylings into uncharted territories.
August 25, 2018 – Connla
Hailing from the cities of Armagh and Derry, Connla has been labelled as the “Hottest New Group out of Northern Ireland”, (Chicago Irish American News) Connla have been quickly making an impact on the folk/traditional scene.
July 6, 2018 – FRÄNDER
With the Swedish and Estonian traditional music as their springboard FRANDER create music with a strong personality and a sentiment that doesn’t leave anyone untouched. With focus on harmonies and singing their inventive and clever arrangements highlights the lyrics. Stories are sung with warmth as well as intensity. FRANDER displays a musical landscape with sincerity and a love of adventure.
May 26, 2018 – LATOQC
Veteran fiddlers David Greely (Louisiana) and Claude Méthé (Québec) invite you to connect the dots between their two vibrant traditions. For a quarter of a century, these two award-winning “porteurs de tradition” have made their mark as players and cultural ambassadors on both sides of the border.