CONCERT AROUND THE CAMPFIRE

Saturday July15th 2023 at8:00PM

When Del Barber set to writing the 12 songs that comprise his eighth album, he adhered more than everto a prairie aesthetic. The record follows Barber’s acclaimed 2021 album Stray Dogs: Collected BSidesVol. 1, made during the height of pandemic restrictions. Stray Dogs, which brought Barber to theend of one season, Almanac doggedly led him into the next.“I want my work to be seen as subtle by definition,” Barber says. “I want my statements to come acrossas questions rather than decrees or opinions. Some of the songs are descriptions of my world throughmy own eyes, a way of songwriting I’ve never felt I’ve done well until now had another chance. It felt like spring.”

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Nominated for a Grammy for Best Male Vocal, winner of a Grammy (as co-producer of “Seduces Me” on Celine Dion’s 32 plus million-selling “Falling Into You” album), winner of five Juno Awards, the Harold Moon Award (Canadian Lifetime Song Writing Achievement Award) and having been inducted into the venerated Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame (2021), Dan is an international music industry legend.

Hill recorded and released multiple gold and platinum albums and is beloved for his classic, timeless hits such as “Sometimes When We Touch” (Dolly Parton’s “favorite song of all time). “Sometimes When We Touch” has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Songs of the Century and one of Top 100 Most Played Songs of All Time (BMI).

Hill has also enjoyed consistent success as a “behind the scenes” songwriter, with his compositions being recorded by an astonishing array of artists spanning myriad musical genres including pop singers Celine Dion, Britney Spears, The Backstreet Boys, and Rod Stewart, to R&B singers Tina Turner, and George Benson, and country singers Tammy Wynette, Reba McEntire, Alan Jackson, Dolly Parton - and jazz artists, Joe Sealy, Salome Bey, and Jackie Richardson.

Collectively, Dan's music amasses well over one million listeners per month on Spotify. Overall, Dan has enjoyed over 100 million units sold worldwide.

Dan Hill is widely celebrated as one of Canada’s most distinguished, authentic, and multi-talented artists, who continues to create prose and music that speak to the humanity and beauty in all of us.

Natural Balance

Thursday July20th 2023 at7:00PM

Join a friendly gathering of Aldervil share stories, music, and conversa is a special introduction to the crea the largest intact tract of native gra

Dave Mowat has spent the past 33 years working in various capacities at the First Nation level, in Winnipeg, Waabaseemoong, Scugog Island First Nation and Alderville First Nation. As a researcher, writer, youth worker, economic development officer, consultation specialist, Band councilor and the elected Chief of Alderville First Nation, Dave has remained committed to the positive advancement of our communities. His passion remains researching and understanding the treaty, military, and settlement history of southern Ontario as it pertains to Alderville but also the Mississauga Nation as a whole.

Dave is also a long-time blues musician/singer, having taken up the harmonica back in the early and lean 1980s not long after relocating to the rough neighbourhoods of north end Winnipeg. From that point he followed and learned from the local Winnipeg players like Big Dave McLean, (C.M.) and Gord Kidder, and in the company of American players like Jimmy Rogers, Johnny Winter, Junior Wells, John Lee Hooker and Sunnyland Slim. Over the ensuing 35 plus years Dave continues to learn and understand the blues. He still plays professionally in Toronto and southcentral Ontario, which balances his political and historical interests. Along with his wife Janet and their granddaughter Brooklyn, Dave lives in the home he built in Alderville (25 years ago), adjacent to his beloved Black Oak Savanna and Tallgrass Prairie, where he and Janet also raised their 3 children