Barncat

Sponsored by Friend’s of the Festival Saturday 10:30am, Clock Park; Saturday Noon, Parade (Just Us! Festival Tent)   This group combines traditional West African songs, rhythms, arrangements, and at times dance, with other musical and theatrical ideas to provide energetic and eclectic performances. Booming with the sound of djembes, dununs, horns, bells, shakers, and voice,…

Sponsored by Long & McQuade Friday 1:40pm, Just Us! Festival Tent; Saturday 9:00am, Farmers’ Market; Saturday 1:30pm, Al Whittle; Sunday 1pm, Festival Theatre Jacques Surette est un jeune auteur/compositeur qui vient de la région Sud-Ouest de la Nouvelle-Écosse. Il passe la majorité de son temps à écrire des chansons qui parlent de sa culture et de…

  Friday 11:30am, Just Us! Festival Tent; Friday 2pm, KC Irving Garden Room (Artist@Acadia) Sandy-Lynn Fisher is a Community Services Officer with the Glooscap First Nation. She will lead the Sacred Smudge Ceremony for the Deep Roots community on Friday at 11:30 am. Sandy-Lynn and two of her children will share their experience as artists,…

Sponsored by Jane’s Saturday 2:30pm, Festival Theatre; 7:50pm, Festival Theatre Jenn Grant was born on Prince Edward Island, the smallest province of Canada’s Maritimes. She’s an award-winning songwriter and performer, a painter and a producer. The three-time Juno nominee’s music has been described by Australia’s The Age as “dreamy, harp-and woodwinds folk, and the work…

Sponsor TBA Thursday 7pm, The Annex (Canning); Saturday 1:30pm, Al Whittle Citybilly, King of Canadiana Swing, Leader of The Yodelayhee Few, Zakary Miller has been called a lot of things, but when he was referred to as a “local phenom” by his Deep Roots peers in 2018, well he was just flattered. Continuing his tradition…