Boxwood Festivals

06/16/2024

Hang with Brendan Mulholland @ Boxwood in-person & streaming online. July 21-26, 24 🔥

05/06/2024

Join un In-person on Online.
Concerts - Workshops - Ceili - and more
https://boxwood.org/canada/

04/12/2024

Registration for Boxwood Kids is now open! We welcome kids age 8-12 for a magical week exploring traditional music, dance and crafts. Monday – Friday July 22-26, 2024
10:30am – 4pm @ Lunenburg School of the Arts, in Lunenburg, NS. Just a few spaces remaining!
https://boxwood.org/canada/kids/

02/21/2024

Join us this weekend in Victoria!
https://boxwood.org/australia/

02/05/2024

I'm coming down to cool you off with some great music of Maritime Canada . . .

12/18/2023

So very sorry to learn of the passing of my friend and mentor Rod Cameron. The impact that Rod had upon me professionally and personally was profound. I was immensely blessed to spend time with such a brilliant, generous, thoughtful, and fun human being. His talents and interests were boundless as he instinctively grasped the interconnectedness of all things: apprenticing as a toolmaker at Rolls Royce to a PhD in engineering from Cambridge, Arctic explorations in Greenland, a passionate amateur astronomer, gifted singer, guitarist, poet, writer and historian, a master engraver, and of course, best known as a premier maker of exquisite historical flutes. His life and work will continue to inspire me, and I’ll always cherish the many wonderful memories of our time together. I’m sending love to his family, sharing their sense of loss and appreciation for Rod’s remarkable life. - Chris Norman

12/07/2022

Catch Helicon's Winter Solstice Concert streaming live from Dumbarton in Washington, DC this Saturday Dec 10, 2022 at 7:30 pm. The stream is available for 48 hours after the show. https://www.dumbartonconcerts.org/22-23-tickets/helicon

Or come in person!
- Dumbarton Concerts in Georgetown, Washington DC Saturday Dec 10
https://www.dumbartonconcerts.org/22-23-tickets/helicon

- In Baltimore, MD at Goucher College on Dec 17
https://www.kenkolodner.com/winter-solstice.html

New Live album available at https://heliconbaltimore.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-the-winter-solstice-concert

07/27/2022

Our annual Waterfront Ceili is on tomorrow, with the backdrop of Lunenburg's stunning sunset. It's free and all are welcome to dance to our fabulous live traditional music band. Join us from 8pm!

07/22/2022

Tickets for the Opening Night Concert are available!

Sunday July 24th, 8pm
Lunenburg Academy, 3rd floor, with:

Eamon O’LEARY - songs, guitar, banjo
Alexa Raine-WRIGHT - baroque flute & recorder
Janelle LUCYK - songs, fiddle
Seán HEELY - Scots fiddle, Gaelic song, harp

Advanced tickets can be purchased online at:

https://boxwood.ticketspice.com/opening-concert-canada-2022

Get Tickets for Opening Concert: Canada 2022.

07/02/2022

Looking for your next boost of musical inspiration? Like to spend your summer immersed in fabulous traditional & baroque tunes & songs and surrounded by friendly people? Join us in Lunenburg Nova Scotia, July 24-29th, for an incredible week at Boxwood Festival 2022.

Programs for adults & kids. Classes, concerts, ceili, meals and sessions.

A detailed draft schedule is now available at http://boxwood.org/canada/

Contact us to ask about transport from Halifax or lodging in Lunenburg.

https://boxwood.org/product/canada-2022-registration/

06/22/2022

06/21/2022

The Mike Grinter Memorial Young Artists Scholarship is a superb opportunity for Boxwood applicants under 30 years, and a great way to celebrate and honor our friend and master craftsman Mike Grinter who dedicated his lifetime’s work to making flutes, recorders & whistles of the highest calibre from his workshops in Chewton, Ennis & Thailand. Applications close July 1st and we’re accepting donations. https://boxwood.org/canada/

06/17/2022

Join us from anywhere in the world for a selection of our Boxwood Canada 2022 classes online. We'll be streaming live from ADT (UTC -3) each day 25-29 July, and recorded for your later viewing. Take all three classes per day or choose from these options:

CELTIC STREAM at 9am each day with Catherine McEVOY, Nicholas WILLIAMS, Edel FOX, Chris NORMAN and Kendra MacGILLIVRAY.

BAROQUE STREAM at 10.30am each day with Alexa Raine-WRIGHT and Chris NORMAN.

KLEZMER STREAM at 1.15pm each day with Adrianne GREENBAUM.

Read more information and register at www.boxwood.ticketspice.com/boxwood-canada-online

JULY 24 - 29, 2022LUNENBURG, NOVA SCOTIA Boxwood returns to beautiful & historic Lunenburg, Nova Scotia for a week of immersive programs in traditional & early music. Join us for an unforgettable gathering of musical discovery and fun.

06/04/2022

Meet Kendra MacGillivray and Seán Heely, our guest fiddle artists at Boxwood Canada 2022.

Kendra McGILLIVRAY brings the traditional fiddling style of eastern Nova Scotia to life with her incredibly energetic performances. Her playing is steeped in traditional step dance with upbeat jigs, polkas and hornpipes, beautiful swaying waltzes and slow airs or selections of rhythmic strathspeys and reels that build in speed and intensity. She’s even been known to make a few steps while fiddling at the same time in high heels! She has numerous awards under her belt, including two prestigious East Coast Music Awards, including ‘Female Artist of the Year’ and ‘Instrumental Artist of the Year’.

Seán HEELY is a U.S National Scottish Fiddle Champion as well as an award-winning Irish Fiddler, singer, and harpist in the folk and Gaelic traditions of Scotland and Ireland. A versatile artist, he holds a degree from University of South Carolina in Classical Violin Performance and was a 2019 Artist in Residence at Strathmore Music Center in Maryland. An educator in demand, Seán is an Adjunct Instructor at American University He has performed in Scotland, Ireland, South America, Germany and at prestigious venues in the U.S such as the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C and Strathmore Music Center.

We’re delighted to have Kendra and Seán as tutors and performers at Boxwood Canada 2022.

To find out more, visit www.boxwood.org/canada

05/26/2022

We've updated our artists for Boxwood 2022. Join us in Lunenburg July 24-29 for a spectacular week of music!

Catherine McEvoy - Irish flute, whistle
Alexa Raine-Wright - baroque flute
Chris Norman - flutes, pipes
Nicholas Williams - Quebecois flute, accordion
Edel Fox - concertina
Kendra McGillivray - Cape Breton fiddle
Seán HEELY - fiddle, harp, Gaelic song
Eamon O'leary - guitar, banjo, song
Janelle Lucyk - song
Nick Halley - percussion
Andra Bohnet -flute choir

Programs for adults & kids, work study & scholarships

https://boxwood.org/canada/

01/22/2022

Registration for Boxwood Festival Australia in Queenscliff 3-6 March is now underway! Join us for this annual long-weekend of amazing immersion in traditional & early music, musical discovery and fun. The link is at www.boxwood.org/australia/

12/12/2021

We’re thrilled to announce the tutor line-up for Boxwood Australia in Queenscliff, 3-6 March 2022. Shane Lestideau has been appointed Guest Artistic Director for the 2022 festival, and she has brought together an exciting local faculty who are absolute specialists and musical adventurers. Registrations will open shortly.

Dougal ADAMS – flute
Ado BARKER – fiddle
Greg DIKMANS – flute
Shane LESTIDEAU – violin, guest director
Claire PATTI – singing, harp
Andy RIGBY – harp
Ryan WILLIAMS – recorder (whistle & pipes)

Shane writes to say: "As a long-time admirer of Chris Norman's Boxwood Festivals, it is an absolute honour to be named guest director in 2022! The thing I love the most about Boxwood is the space it creates for people to take a creative deep-dive into new repertoire, techniques, styles, history and ideas. Next year's camp at Queenscliff will be all about bringing together musical traditions both new and old: classic Irish tunes and 'new trad', folk songs and vocal workouts, 18th-century airs on fiddle, flute, pipes and harp, as well as a choir open to all. I hope to see you there!"

https://boxwood.org/australia/

11/20/2021

Boxwood Artist Huddle with Hatao & Nami

10/20/2021

Join us Sunday 24 October for an Artist Huddle with the brilliant and prolific Hamish Napier, a multi-talented musician (flute, keyboards, song, composition and producer) from Strathspey in the Scottish Highlands. For over a decade he was an integral part of Glasgow’s vibrant folk music scene, whilst also touring in Europe and North America with Scottish folk quartet Back of the Moon (‘Folk Band of the Year 2005’ MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards). After gaining degrees in Astronomy and Music in Glasgow, Hamish was awarded a year’s scholarship to study jazz piano and composition at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA. He then taught composition and music theory for 6 years at Glasgow’s Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He now tutors online and at music schools and festivals worldwide. He recently returned to his native Strathspey, composing three solo albums The River (2016), The Railway (2018) and The Woods (2020) in celebration his homeland. We'll chat about some of his projects and his unique teaching tools including 'Napier's Modes' and his unique viewpoint on harmony and rhythm as it applies to traditional music. Subscribe at www.patreon.com/boxwood.

Sunday 24 October, 2021
1pm Halifax (UTC-3)
12pm New York (UTC-4)
9am Vanvouver (UTC-7)

08/26/2021

Jane LENOIR: Upcoming Artist Huddle
SATURDAY 28 AUGUST, 2021, 5pm Halifax (UTC-3)

Join us for a Huddle and a chance to learn some Brazilian Choro with flutist Jane Lenoir. Jane is a foundational figure in the Bay Area Brazilian and Latin music scene as a founding member of the Berkeley Choro Ensemble, Primavera Latin Jazz and Matiz Ensemble, and co-director of the Berkeley Festival of Choro. Subscribe and access all of our Huddles and Tune of the Month videos past and present at www.patreon.com/boxwood

08/18/2021

Sunday 22 August, 2021
8pm Halifax (UTC-3)

Join us for an Artist Huddle with the wonderful Vermont-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Timothy Cummings. Tim is chiefly a piper and whistle player who enjoys an uncommonly diverse repertoire. His music spans from contemporary and sacred music to the traditional melodies of the British Isles, Appalachia, Cape Breton, Brittany, and beyond. Subscribe at www.patreon.com/boxwood

08/01/2021

The Amazing Boxwood Canada Flute Choir 2021! https://youtu.be/rCYf71W090g

07/29/2021

A Cheap Night at the Opera with Lisa Beznosiuk -.flute, Neil McLaren - flute, and Catherine Rimer - cello https://youtu.be/C29HxvWzepA

Boxwood Canada 2021 On-Line Concert with Lisa Beznosiuk -flute, Neil McLaren - flute, and Catherine Rimer - flute playing music of Haydn,, Doppler and Hoffme...

07/28/2021

Hi All - Apologies for the delay; Lisa's video is still 'processing'. Stand by . . .