Much more than music at Northern Lights Festival Boréal

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NORTHERN LIGHTS
FESTIVAL BOREAL

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Northern Lights Festival Boréal offers new perspective with interactive workshops throughout festival

SUDBURY - Northern Lights Festival Boréal is right around the corner!

Being held in its traditional home of Bell Park July 5-7, 2013 the fest is ready to kick off the summer for the 42nd year!

At NLFB it’s not just about the headliners (although we love them); it’s all about offering unique experiences to music lovers.

Interactive workshops offering music lovers a chance to interact with artist are scheduled throughout the weekend.

Each summer, NLFB workshops gather so many diverse artists together to delve into the creative process and demonstrate the many styles of music featured in the lineup.

You will get an intimate look at the artists and grow to understand them.

Using different themes to guide the discussion take a seat and watch as artist from all principals teach and entertain in this collaborative experience like no other.

A few highlights of this year’s workshop line up:

Saturday 6 - 1p.m. Is that a Fiddle or a Violin?:

Watch the masters of the bow cross styles and exchange secrets. Sheesham Crowe, Rachel Shenin (Horables), Christian Robinson and Geoff McCausland (Silver Birch String Quartet) (Acoustic Stage / Scène acoustique)

Saturday 6 - 2 p.m. The Crooked Beat:

Several of our artists have one foot in the hip- hop world and a whole world of diverse and strange inspirations on the other side, get to know these amazing artists. Buck 65, Socalled, Mike O’Brian (Kill the Autocrat) (Workshop Stage / Scène des ateliers)

Saturday 6 - 4 p.m. That’s the way they did it back in ’29:

Olde Timey, Bluegrass and Ragtime. Sheesham and Lotus and Son, The Horables, Rosie and the Riveters (Acoustic Stage / Scène acoustique)

Sunday 7 - 1 p.m. Solidarity Forever:

Songs of organized labour, from Chicago’s Haymarket affair in 1886 to Wisconsin, the labour movement has always written songs of solidarity to tell the tales of Brothers and Sisters who fight like hell for the living. Anne Feeney, Kill The Autocrat, Paul Loewenberg, Charlie Angus (Workshop Stage / Scène des ateliers)

Sunday 7 - 3 p.m. Cupid, Draw back your Bow:

Sam Cooke captured it as many songwriters have, love is a tricky, messy affair. Lynn Miles, Maia Davies, Caracol, Kate Maki (Acoustic Stage / Scène acoustique)

Sunday 7 - 4 p.m. Quiet Time with Sheesham and Lotus and Son:

Last year we had the basics of Olde Timey music in the intro workshop, join us in the intermediate course as our professors cover more in depth history of the style (Workshop Stage / Scène des ateliers)

Advance tickets are available online at www.nlfbsudbury.com, Records on Wheels, Walden Home Hardware, A&J Home Hardware, Gloria’s Convenience, Hanmer Homehardware, Jett Landry Music Ltd., and Second Ave Home Hardware.

For more information contact the office at 705-674-5512 or [email protected].

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