Singer/songwriters Brian Tremblay and Will Gillespie are touring Northern Ontario in October, playing songs inspired by the North.
"Will Gillespie & Brian Tremblay: 2 Northern Troubadours - Songs & Stories of Northern Ontario" is a concert that promises of “new songs in old styles … unsung chapters of Canadian history that happened right here in Northern Ontario.”
The tour will take the duo to several corners of the Northeast:
- Bruce Mines United Church on Oct. 1
- Ertaminger Clergue National Historic Site, Sault Ste. Marie on Oct. 2
- Timber Village Museum, Blind River on Oct. 3
- Knox Hall, Sudbury on Oct. 4
- Northern Ontario Railroad Museum and Heritage Centre, Capreol on Oct. 5
- Shuswap on the Nipissing in West Nipissing on Oct. 5
- North Bay Museum, North Bay on Oct. 7
- Temiskaming Art Gallery, Temiskaming Shores on Oct. 8
- Museum of Northern History, Kirkland Lake on Oct. 9
- Royal Canadian Legion, Elk Lake on Oct. 10, and;
- Timmins Museum, Timmins on Oct. 11.
Full concert details for the tour are available online here.
Brian Tremblay opens the show with songs from his album "In the Tracks of the Black Bear," inspired by the Algoma Central Railway, where his father and other family members worked before and after the Second World War.
The songs are all done in a roots, folk and country style with “simple stripped-down acoustic instrumentation to let the stories be heard.”
Will Gillespie performs songs from his Northern Ontario history-themed concept album: "MINE! True Stories & Legends of the Porcupine Gold Rush." The songs will take “the audience on a musical journey back in time to a lost world of prospectors, pioneers, bootlegger-bandits, high-graders, dogsledders and moonshiners.”
For tickets, click here.