By Staff
April 27, 2016
BURLINGTON, ON
Rob Missen is inviting people to an afternoon of music from the land of purple heather. It will be a pleasant afternoon of time well spent – but more importantly – the event I being held to raise funds for the second annual Lowville Festival that will take place in the summer. And that is significant. What Missen and his team are doing is creating events that are out of the downtown core – in countryside. Check the link at the bottom of this piece – to see what you missed last year.
Come ye from the hills, from the mills, from the glens, and from the fens! The Lowville Festival – “a festival of all the arts for the artist in all of us”- and Lowville United Church are presenting a special benefit concert at Lowville United Church on Sunday May 1st at 3:00 pm.
THE HEATHER IN THE HILLS is a salute to the words and music of Scotland. The concert will feature the songs and poems of the immortal Robbie Burns, as well as selections from the musical Brigadoon and other popular Scots songs.
The featured performers include Festival Co-Director Robert Missen; Carol Ann Thomson, the new Music Director at Lowville United; Wayne Strongman, former Conductor of Hamilton’s Bach-Elgar Choir and Conductor of the new Lowville Festival Choir; Stuart Laughton, Founding Member of the Canadian Brass and leader of the new band Radio Dial; Peter Skoggard, notable Burns scholar and reciter; Michael Mulrooney, Music Director of Tansley United Church and well-known musical theatre conductor and pianist; and three recent graduates of the Sheridan College Musical Theatre Program, Kate Madden, Andrew MacNaughton and Gregory Solomon.
Special Guests for the afternoon are the 78th Fraser Highland Pipe and Drum Corps, which has recently taken up residence at Lowville United.
All of the artists are donating their services. There will be reception following the concert which will feature tea and Eileen Missen’s legendary shortbread. All proceeds will go towards helping to defray the costs of the 2017 Festival and the outreach programmes of Lowville United Church.
On May 1st, the Lowville Festival will announce its programme for the 2016 festival, to be held between July 22-24 in various locations in and around the historic hamlet of Lowville in beautiful North Burlington.
“The mists of May are in the gloamin’ and all the clouds are holding still”. Come celebrate spring in the majestic highlands of north Burlington!
Related article:
THE HEATHER IN THE HILLS: THE WORDS AND MUSIC OF SCOTLAND
SUNDAY MAY 1ST AT 3:00 PM
LOWVILLE UNITED CHURCH
GUELPH LINE AND BRITANNIA ROAD
TICKETS $25
AVAILABLE AT THE CHURCH (905-335-0911), DIFFERENT DRUMMER BOOKS & AT THE DOOR
