Family music and dance camp
Fiddlers on the grass
AlgomaTrad is dedicated to preserving and passing on the traditional music, dance and art that are part of our Canadian culture and heritage. Every August, we offer a one-week, residential camp that offers workshops and concerts in traditional music, dance and art at the Algoma Music Camp site on St. Joseph Island in Ontario (not far from Sault Ste. Marie). The annual summer camp is a family affair for people of all ages and abilities featuring musician/artist teachers who are passionate about their music, dance or artisanry. Learn to play or perfect your skills on nearly any folk instrument, dance nightly to called dances in the great barn, eat fabulous meals featuring locally grown produce, enjoy the outdoors, jam, sing along, draw and much more while making new friends that you’ll keep for life!
“AlgomaTrad Presents” Shane Cook and Troy MacGillivray January 27 at the Shingwauk Hall, Algoma University, Sault Ste Marie, and January 28th, at Central Algoma Secondary School in Desbarats.
2 AlgomaTrad Dance opportunities to get your year started right. On Friday, January 6, 2012, beginning at 7:30pm, The O’Schraves and Dan Gorno (with some of our AlgomaTrad students) will be at the Legion Hall in Richards Landing for the FIRST DANCE OF THE YEAR, and on Saturday, January 7, 2012, 7:30pm, we’ll do it all again at the Moose Lodge Hall in Sault Ste Marie, 543 Trunk Rd.
AlgomaTrad is continuing its “AlgomaTrad Presents” series at the end of January with two of Canada’s most amazing young traditional musicians. Shane Cook and Troy McGillivray won the East Coast Music Award for Instrumental Recording of the Year in 2009 for their duet recording “When Here Meets There”.
ALGOMATRAD is excited to announce two Algoma area concerts by a trio of Celtic instrumental wizards at the end of November. Cape Breton fiddler Dan MacDonald, who taught at the AlgomaTrad Camp in ’08 and ’09, is returning to the region to perform with his new group, North Atlantic Drift. North Atlantic Drift, made up of piper Ross Griffiths and tenor banjo/guitar maestro Brian Taheny as well as MacDonald, has just released a self-titled CD. Together they are an entire Celtic orchestra in a trio. In one sitting you’ll hear Cape Breton fiddle, Sligo fiddle, tenor banjo, guitar, mandolin, Irish Uilleann pipes, Scottish Highland and Lowland pipes, whistles and bodhran. Along with this impressive display of multi-instrumental talent is the striking blend of the separate traditions at work from players with deep roots in those traditions.
An AlgomaTrad Dance will be held at the Bruce Station Hall, on Saturday, November 5th. AlgomaTrad is excited to announce two area concerts by North Atlantic Drift, a group made up of Dan MacDonald, Brian Taheny, and Ross Griffiths.
A brief tour of the one and only St. Joseph Island Coffee Roasters, located at the Outlook (end of the A line) on St. Joseph Island (or course!), escorted by local guide Aine Schryer-O’Gorman. St. Joseph Island Coffee Roasters sells freshly roasted, fair trade and organic coffee beans.
