Sponsored by The Grapevine Thursday 7pm, The Annex; Friday 3:00pm, Festival Tent; Saturday 1pm, Festival Theatre; Sunday 2:45pm, Festival Theatre Factory Girls is an Appalachian folk duo that brings the warmth of a vocal firelight with songs to soothe and disturb. Their blood harmonies will chill your bones, with lyrics that dance you into darkness. …
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…
Sponsored by the Town of Wolfville Saturday 1pm, Just Us! Festival Tent Matt the Music Man (Matthew McFarlane) is an award-winning children’s musical entertainer! He’s also possibly the only musician around with a pirate hat and a platypus for a sidekick! Growing up, Matt was very shy and was bullied at school. He spent much…
Sponsored by The Stella Rose B&B Thursday 7pm, VCLA; Friday 2:20pm, Just Us! Festival Tent; Saturday 10am, Al Whittle; Saturday 1:30pm, Al Whittle Born on the prairies and raised in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, Rebecca Fairless writes songs that encompass both the warmth and the austerity of a bright Alberta sun in a…
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 Friend’s of the Festival Saturday 10am, Baptist Church Marilyn Manzer has taught and performed music in Wolfville for 31 years and taught Kindermusik® for over 16 years. The 2011 Valley Arts Award winner sings, plays piano and recorder, and has been music director for Women of Wolfville and school musicals. Many young people…
Sponsored by Friend’s of the Festival Saturday 12:15 Just Us! Festival Tent Teresa Bergen and Kim Barlow present a rolling puppet theatre, with a red velvet curtain and fanciful characters including a flying girl goblin, a crash-bashy fox, and a haunted house with chicken feet. They are at the beginning of their adventures – a…
Sponsored by Friend’s of the Festival Saturday 2pm, Just Us! Festival Tent, Deep Roots open mic hosts Hannah Clausen and Scott Marsters come together to make up HUSH! HUSH is an acoustic duo, covering a wide variety of cover songs from the hits of years past, to current indie and radio favourites as well as…
Sponsored by Bruce Dienes, Community Consultant Friday 12:30pm, Wolfville Memorial Library; Friday 7:50pm, Festival Theatre Montreal-born Grenadian-Canadian Kaia Kater’s jazz-fueled voice and deft songcraft have garnered acclaim from NPR’s Tiny Desk, The Guardian, Rolling Stone and No Depression. Kaia draws on influences rooted in Quebec, the Caribbean, and Appalachia, all of which reflect the diversity…
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,…
