Boxwood Festivals

29/07/2025

Some of our favorite classroom sessions from last week - with us you learn from the best!

25/07/2025

More from this magical midweek moment - as Boxwood comes to a close we reflect on moments like our truly one of a kind sailboat session that make us so special 🤍🌿

16/07/2025

... and COLLIN COTTER

16/07/2025

With less than one week let's meet the remainder of our artists! Here's FRANCIS COLPRON

16/07/2025

THIS SUNDAY, Jul 20th, begins Boxwood 2025. A week of concerts, classes and community. Get ready!

06/07/2025

All smiles today in Lunenberg with and cheers to a great show!

02/07/2025

Got your tickets for Sunday afternoon's concert with the Melbourne Scottish Fiddlers? They're a 35 piece folk orchestra from Melbourne Australia, and their sound is PURE JOY! Looking forward to seeing you there! Sunday July 6 2025, 2:00 PM at St. John's Anglican Church, Lunenburg. Reserve tickets at [email protected].

Snippets of our final performance at the NFF 2023, with incredible guests Natalie and Brittany Haas joining us for the last number.

01/07/2025

The festivities begin THIS SUNDAY with the Melbourne Scottish Fiddlers featuring virtuoso flute player and Boxwood Director, Chris Norman in Lunenburg on Sunday July 6.
Melbourne Scottish Fiddlers explore the lively sounds of Scottish music, with repertoire that both acknowledges and reinvents traditional roots. Regularly collaborating with some of the world’s best traditional musicians, the Melbourne Scottish Fiddlers deliver a charming and exhilarating show, full of tunes and songs that trace back to Scotland.

23/06/2025

Some moments from Baroque Music Montana with Chris Norman and David Greenberg. See them and others at Boxwood Canada 2025!

19/06/2025

and NICK HALLEY -- Nick Halley is a drummer/percussionist, keyboardist, composer, and conductor based in Nova Scotia, Canada. Born in New York City, he studied drumming and percussion with Jamey Haddad from an early age, majored in jazz and classical percussion at Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan and spent a year training and performing in Brazil prior to returning to New York City to attend The New School University’s jazz and contemporary music program.

As a drummer and world percussionist, Nick has performed and recorded internationally with a wide range of musicians including American musical icon James Taylor, Paul Halley, the late Oscar Castro-Neves, Glenn Patscha, Old Man Luedecke, Suzie LeBlanc, Chris Norman, David McGuinness & Revenge of the Folk Singers, Concerto Caledonia, and Viradouro Escola de Samba.

19/06/2025

Next up BRID HARPER -- Bríd Harper is regarded as one of the leading Irish traditional fiddle players of the last forty years.

She grew up close to the east Donegal village of Castlefinn and started playing the fiddle at the age of nine. There is music on both sides of her family. Her grandfather Stephen Harper was a fiddler and came from a musical family. On her mother’s side her uncle Frank Kelly is a well known fiddler.

She won all the underage competitions at the annual All Ireland Fleadh Cheoil both in the Slow Air and Dance Music categories. In 1988 she won three prestigious titles - Senior All Ireland, Fiddler of Dooney and Oireachtas na Gaeilge.

She is an MA graduate of the Irish World Academy of Music & Dance at University of Limerick. She has toured extensively and performed with many great musicians.

12/06/2025

Starting off our artist introductions with JUNE MCCORMACK --- June comes from Ballintogher, Co. Sligo. In 1998, June was awarded The TG4 Gradam ‘Young Musician of the Year Award’ in the Town Hall Theatre in Galway, and that same year, she won the All Ireland Senior Flute Competition at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Ballina.

A primary school teacher by profession, June has published two flute tutorial books in recent years, Fliúit (2006) and Fliúit 2 (2009). She has recorded three CDs with Michael Rooney; ‘Tobar an Cheoil’ (2022), 'Land's End' (2006) and Draíocht' (2004). June is a member of Sligo’s Dartry Ceili Band.

June was taught by both Carmel Gunning & Paddy Ryan. Michael & June first met at a Foróige event in UCD in 1989, where the organisation was celebrating 21 years of the Citizenship Award. Coincidentally they were both paired together (out of 60 young traditional musicians) to perform a duet at the event.

A member of the music group, Síona, that recorded the 1998 album, ‘Launching the Boat’, with Kevin Brehony (piano), Damien O’Brien (fiddle), Oliver Loughlin (piano accordion)

June plays an Olwell ‘D’ flute, made by Patrick Olwell, from Virginia, USA, and also plays an Australian Mike Grinter ‘C’ flute.