Directories

August 16 to August 19
Main St. Unionville, Unionville, ON

markham_jazz_festival__samba_squad_with_lester_mclean_luanda_jones_and_diaThe Markham Jazz Festival offers a diverse mix of jazz entertainment for music lovers of all ages. This year's festival takes place in the historic village of Unionville. The opening “15th Birthday Blues Bash” takes place Thursday, August 16, at Markham Theatre, featuring an incredible blues line-up including Shakura S’Aida, Monkey Junk, Fathead, Harrison Kennedy and Treasa Levasseur! The weekend also features fantastic free outdoor acts Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with artists Tony Monaco, Marc Jordan and many more. In addition to more than 20 stage acts on three stages, there are street performances as well as "Hot Spots" (bars and restaurants) featuring jazz all around town.

905-471-5299
www.markhamjazzfestival.com

June 8 to June 17
Festival hub at David Pecaut Square, 55 John St., Toronto, ON (other events across the city)

luminato__photo_credit_2011_luminato_festivalLuminato’s free concerts at David Pecaut Square provide a blend of world music, singer-songwriters and hip-hop, plus the Toronto Symphony Orchestra playing its first outdoor concert in nearly a decade. This year brings free performances from K’NAAN, Michael Franti, Loreena McKennitt, AfroCubism and many more. In addition to an engaging array of free concerts, Luminato offers a diverse mix of ticketed concerts by some of music’s most celebrated performers, including Stewart Goodyear performing all 32 Beethoven sonatas in one day and a tribute to the late Kate McGarrigle with Rufus and Martha Wainwright, Emmylou Harris, Bruce Cockburn and Mary Margaret O’Hara, among others.

416-368-3100
www.luminato.com

August 10 to August 12
Pull-A-Log Park, Red Rock, ON

live_from_the_rock_folk_festivalCome to Red Rock, one hour east of Thunder Bay, to enjoy a weekend full of music, family activities, food, artisans, camping and friendship along the shores of beautiful Lake Superior. Celebrate our tenth anniversary along with Rita Chiarelli, Jack de Keyzer, Fred Eaglesmith, Dala and Jory Nash. The festival also offers another 25 artists representing folk and roots, blues, bluegrass, and country! Take a trip on the lake in a 16-seat voyageur canoe, greet the day with morning yoga and take a turn on the open mic stage.

www.livefromtherock.com

June 30 to August 25
Leith Church, 419134 Tom Thomson Lane, Leith, ON

Leith Summer Festival concerts are presented in Georgian Bay’s historic Leith Church. This season includes: “The Book of Love,” June 30 (sopranos Patricia O’Callaghan and Monica Whicher, pianist Robert Kortgaard and bassist Andrew Downing); “L’Accordéoniste: Latin Heat,” July 14 (Kimberly Barber, mezzo-soprano; Mary-Lou Vetere, accordion; Peter Tiefenbach, piano; and Carol Bauman, percussion); “Jayme Stone’s Room of Wonders,” July 28 (banjoist Jayme Stone and friends playing music inspired by folk traditions); “Evening Enchantment: Chopin’s Nocturnes,” August 11 (Italian pianist Robert Prosseda); and “The Donna Steinacher Bursary Stars,” August 25 (a gala by four emerging young artists). All concerts start 7:30pm. Tickets are $25 and season passes $120.

1-888-446-7699 or 519-371-2833
www.leithchurch.ca or www.ticketscene.ca/roxy

August 5 to August 18
Kincardine, ON

Now in its 21st year, this professional concert series features jazz, blues, classical, world and chamber music.

kincardine_summer_music_festivalPerfomers for August 5 to 10: Denzal Sinclaire, Sophia Perlman with Adrean Farrugia and Jason Hunter, Al Kay with the Jazz.FM91 Youth Big Band, Robin Banks, the Antler River Project and the KSMF Jazz All-Stars (Jules Estrin, Amy Peck, Brian O’Kane, Earl MacDonald, Mike Downes, Geoff Young, Joel Haynes).
Performers for August 12 to 17: Ensemble Vivant piano trio, Marc Djokic, Katie Gleiser, Caroline Leonardelli with Matthew Larkin, Brass Roots, Jasmine Schnarr and Thomas Beard.

Sundays to Fridays enjoy free “4 O’Clock in the Park” concerts in Kincardine’s Victoria Park.

519-396-9716
www.ksmf.ca

July 5 to July 15
North Bay, ON

The JVL Summer School for Performing Arts showcases young and aspiring musicians participating in its unique course. The course offers its participants a wonderful opportunity to combine their intensive music studies and concert performances with recreational activities. The JVL SSPA is committed to the artistic development of young musicians of all ages by providing students with intensive, highly professional training under the tutelage of a distinguished faculty. Concerts take place in North Bay. For a full list of performances, please see our website closer to the end of June.

416-735-7499 or 905-882-7499
www.MusicinSummer.com

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Green Pages 2012

Summer has arrived and with it, the regular concert season closes. But this is by no means the end of music for the season: rather, summer festivals are starting in abundance, providing a rich array of musical experiences, from orchestra and choir concerts to chamber and solo recitals. So welcome to the WholeNote’s 11th annual Green Pages, our guide to summer festivals throughout Ontario, across Canada and beyond, presenting music of all sorts – classical, jazz, opera, folk, world music and much more – in a plethora of unique and beautiful settings across the country! Our Green Pages Summer Music Guide comprises three sections. First, you’ll find the profiles of 39 summer festivals from far and wide joining us as Green Pages members this year. Next, you’ll find listings from our Green Pages members hosting events between June 1 and July 7. Look out for further events hosted by these festivals between July 1 and September 7 in our July/August double issue!

Click here for a map of the Summer Music Festivals

THE 2012 GREEN PAGES TEAM

Project Manager Karen Ages

Project Editor Adam Weinmann

Layout and Design Uno Ramat

Website Bryson Winchester

On The Road

On The Road 2014 Coming Soon

Compiled and edited by Sara Constant

Once again, it’s that time of year where we cast our nets wide and ask Canadian musicians across our community what they’re looking forward to this summer, both as listeners and performers, and what their plans are for the season ahead.

Every year it’s the same four questions – and yet, they call forth an array of responses as varied and unique as the musicians themselves. With new updates and responses coming in every day, be sure to check out this page from time to time to read up on the summer plans of this year’s “On-the-Roaders.” Here follows a taste of what they’re up to during the coming summer months.

MUSICIANS, CONCERT PRESENTERS AND MUSIC LOVERS: DO YOU TWEET?

Follow us @thewholenote and share your summer music festival experience by using the hashtag #WNontheroad.

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