Summer Music Festivals

August 8 to August 11
Old Town Lunenburg, NS

The Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival, August 8 to 11, brings this historic port alive with music from the top of its highest hill to its working wharf. The festival features a balance of traditional and contemporary folk performers, promising newcomers and seasoned folk artists. The festival weekend begins August 8 with a traditional music conference, this year examining the music of the Franco-diaspora from Nova Scotia to Louisiana and points in between. Festival weekend passes include conference admission. 2013 performers include Lennie Gallant, Connie Kaldor, David Myles, the Once, Old Man Luedecke and many more. The magical blend of captivating music, stunning scenery and warm Lunenburg hospitality guarantee wonderful memories that draw people back year after year. See our website for tickets and details.

902-634-3180
www.folkharbour.com

August 15 to August 18
Unionville, Markham, ON

The Markham Jazz Festival is a fabulous four-day event featuring top notch professional jazz musicians of all jazz genres, performing on three main stages on and around beautiful Main Street Unionville in Markham.

Free performances outdoors during the days and evenings of August 16 to 18 include Maceo Parker, Lionel Loueke, Dave Douglas, Lorraine Klassen and so many more! Enjoy various groups performing all genres of jazz, with more than 25 mainstage acts on three stages, complimented by street performances and bars/restaurants featuring their own jazz combos.

Thursday night will kick it all off with a ticketed gala, and then Sunday night closes the festival with a ticketed event at the Varley Art Gallery featuring trumpeter Dave Douglas. Find us on Facebook and Twitter!

905-471-5299
contactus@markhamjazzfestival.com
www.markhamjazzfestival.com

August 2 to 4 (Friday 1pm to 7pm, Saturday and Sunday 1pm to 11pm)
Downtown Cambridge (Water St. and Main St.), ON

The 21st Annual Mill Race Festival is a free event that celebrates the diversity of folk music from around the world, showcasing local and internationally renowned performers from the Irish music of Comas to local band Love Banshee. The festival also includes a tasty choice of foods and refreshments to enjoy while exploring workshops, sing-arounds and sessions for the whole family!

The festival is set around an amphitheatre naturally created among the ruins of an old mill and the streets are filled with the sounds of fiddles. Toes, defying restraint, must tap merrily to lively jigs, reels and hornpipes while colourfully costumed dancers parade through the downtown. Come out and join us!

All venues are walking distance and continue rain or shine! Find us on Facebook and Twitter!

519-621-7135
www.millracefolksociety.com

June 21 to June 24
St-James Theatre, 265 St-Jacques St.
Old Montreal, QC

Montreal Baroque is a unique early music festival that takes place in historic Old Montreal, in dusty 17th-century attics, gardens, crypts, chapels, chateaux, museums and banks! Along with the dozen concerts, you can join a grand parade through the streets of the Old City and come to the late-night musical café! The 2013 edition, New Worlds, will include the Canadian premiere performances of Vivaldi’s opera Motezuma and of Mexican baroque ensemble La Fontegara; Rebel’s Elemens, complete with baroque ballet and circus acts, in Comedia del Arte tradition; and an evening when Baroque Goes Wild with a DJ and a VJ.

514-845-7171
www.montrealbaroque.com

July 13 to August 10
89 Collier’s Rd.
Milford, ON

2013 marks Music at Port Milford’s  27th year of bringing promising 12- to 18-year-olds with a passion for chamber music together with an internationally renowned faculty to create an inspiring summer music experience. This experience is proudly shared with Prince Edward County, as the students and faculty prepare vigorously for their multiple performances throughout July and August, bringing the highest caliber chamber music to Ontario. This summer’s faculty includes the prestigious Linden String Quartet and Tokai String Quartet, the rapidly rising piano quartet Ensemble Made in Canada, esteemed Canadian pianist Peter Longworth, and Marie Berard, the concertmaster of the Canadian Opera Company.

914-439-5039 or 613-476-7735
www.mpmcamp.org

July 12 to August 11

Music Niagara presents a five week summer festival of classical, jazz, vocal, choral and country music in unique venues in and around the town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, in the heart of Niagara’s beautiful wine country. Musicians come from around the world to perform for audiences of locals and the thousands of visitors who visit the remarkable community, known for its history, arts, wine and culinary delights. The 2013 program includes notable artists Anúna, Stewart Goodyear, André Laplante, Jay Leonhart, Brent Carver, Quartetto Gelato, the Horse Flies, the Gryphon Trio, the Elora Festival Singers, the Karakoro Drums of Japan, the New Zealand String Quartet, the Vienna Piano Trio, the Sunparlour Players, the New Orford String Quartet and Robert Silverman. Ticket prices range from $20 to $50 and are available by phone or through our website.

1-800-511-7429
www.musicniagara.org

July 4 to September 7
Venues throughout Nova Scotia; office in Lunenburg, NS

Musique Royale is a summertime celebration of Nova Scotia’s musical heritage. A cross-province festival now in its 28th season, Musique Royale brings performances of early and traditional music to settings of historic and cultural significance in communities ranging from the small fishing towns to the magnificent highlands. Artists this year include Anúna (Irish National Choir), Boxwood group led by Chris Norman, Peter Togni’s Responsia with a vocal quartet led by Suzie Leblanc, organist Robert Quinney, Parthenia Viol Quartet and Maritime Brass.

902-634-9994
www.musiqueroyale.com

June 10 to June 22
AGO, the NAISA Space and Trinity Park
Toronto, ON

New Adventures In Sound Art is co-presenting several special events with NXNE in June. At the First Thursdays event at the AGO, enjoy an installation performance by Nataliya Petkova with her sound sculpture [x]Tensions which “reads” and amplifies the sound characteristics of all surrounding surfaces, performing a territorial sound reading. Presented June 11 to 22 is ELASTIC PLANETS by Instant Places (Ian Birse and Laura Kavanaugh), an audiovisual machine that generates infinitely varied digital paintings in concert with a multichannel soundscape. ELASTIC PLANETS LIVE will be performed on June 10. Follow NAISA’s artistic director, Darren Copeland, on an underwater sound walk through Trinity Square on June 13 in which he will project underwater soundscapes onto the square using a portable directional speaker system.

416-652-5115
www.naisa.ca