CONCER T SERIES
A MOVABLE MUSICAL MARITIME FEAST
I’m beyond pleased to welcome you to the first show of our 2015 Concert Series. It’s music year-round here at Soulpepper now and I have the great honour and thrill of being the one who brings it to you. Through the unparalleled generosity of the Slaight Family I get to captain the Concert Series. The concert experience at Soulpepper is unique and powerful because while music is at the centre, we bring many of the theatre company’s strengths into the fold. Elements such as design, writing, adapting, and styles of performance that tread across all disciplines are essential to creating a Soulpepper Concert. I was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. So that makes me officially NOT comefrom-away. If you’re a Maritimer you know what that means. So there. I was, however, raised south of the border and moved there at a young age so I can’t officially say that eastcoast music was in my bones from a young age. I can say that learning and experiencing music from the Maritimes has been one of the great pleasures of my life since I returned to the red soil. Now I live in Toronto and use the music and culture that was birthed out of that amazing place as a constant and reliable return to the roots and core of who I am and where I came from. I hope this concert can do the same for you. sláinte mhaith!! Mike Ross, Slaight Family Director of Music.
PERFORMERS & PRODUCTION FEATURED PERFORMERS Anna Atkinson John Connolly Hailey Gillis Andrew Penner Jon Pilatzke Jackie Richardson R.H. Thomson Host and Narrator
CREATIVE Gregory Prest Director Mike Ross Music Director/Arrangements Jason Browning Sound Designer Simon Rossiter Lighting Designer
2015 lead sponsors
Anahita Dehbonehie Projection Designer Jordana Weiss Concert Coordinator Kelly Read Producer
MUSICIANS Anna Atkinson Accordion, Violin, Saw John Connolly Guitar Andrew Pacheco Bass Lowell Whitty Drums
MARITIMER CHOIR Anna Atkinson, John Connolly, Mikaela Davies, Peter Fernandes, Katherine Gauthier, Hailey Gillis, Gordon Hecht, Richard Lam, Anthony MacMahon, Andrew Penner
TECHNICIANS Evan Bonnah-Hawkes Technical Director Jason Browning, Cameron Clelland, Benn Hough, Alida Keenlyside Technicians