The audience is the star of the show in DuffleBag Theatre’s hilarious twist on the classic tale of Robin Hood and his merry band!
While the King is away the people of England suffer under the oppressive rule of his tax-happy brother, Prince John. Only a straight arrow like Robin Hood, the best archer in the land, can save England! By stealing from the rich and giving back to the poor, Robin keeps the spirit of justice alive, with the help of a few friends along the way, including Maid Marian, Friar Tuck, and Little John. But what if the Prince and the dreaded Sheriff of Nottingham lay a trap for our hero? With all the humour and fun you’ve come to expect, DuffleBag hits the mark with this on-target tale of derring-do!
Sloan is a Toronto-based rock band from Halifax, Nova Scotia who first performed in spring of 1991. Comprised of bassist and vocalist Chris Murphy, guitarists/vocalists Jay Ferguson and Patrick Pentland, and drummer/vocalist Andrew Scott, the quartet possessed a rare chemistry from the start. There are so many moments peppered throughout the 30-year history of Canadian indie rock heroes Sloan that set them well apart from the pack. From the band’s earliest home studio recordings that married their pop smarts with fizzy, fuzzed out guitars, right up to later efforts that contain multitudes in their track listings, ranging from Dylanesque streams of consciousness to short, sharp blasts of power pop – Somehow, it all remains quintessentially Sloan.
The band is credited as being a main instigator for the Canadian East Coast alternative scene of the early 90s, garnering comparisons to the Seattle Grunge movement on the opposite coast. Over the course of their quarter-century career, Sloan have amassed an outstanding collection of over 250 songs and more than 30 singles with airplay at Canadian Rock Radio. Sloan has received nine Juno Award nominations and won for Best Alternative Album in 1997. The band was named one of Canada’s top five bands of all-time in a CBC critics poll.
In 1974 when Bob Marley went solo, on the brink of international stardom, he surprised the music community by choosing as his lead guitarist the American-born Al Anderson. It was Anderson’s stunning lead work on such classics as No Woman, No Cry, and Three O’Clock Road Block that first alerted rock fans to The Wailers music.
Anderson’s musical achievements with Bob Marley & The Wailers include the platinum award winning albums ‘Live at the Lyceum’, ‘Babylon by Bus’ and ten times platinum album ‘Legend’. The Original Wailers received their own Grammy nomination in 2013 for their album ‘Miracle’ making it Anderson’s second Grammy nomination.
The Original Wailers also include Chet Samuel (Lead Vocals/Guitar), Omar Lopez (Bass Guitar), Howard Smith (Drums) and Noel Aiken (Keyboards/Organ) who continue the legacy of Bob Marley & The Wailers music.
Imperial Theatre, Saint John, Friday, January 20, 2023, 7:30 pm.
At the Capitol Theatre, Tuesday, December 20, 2022
2:00 p.m. 3:30 p.m.
In this beloved family concert, the audience embarks on a musical expedition across continents and through centuries to help a unique bird discover her very own voice. Young audiences laugh, chant and sing along with the Gimquat and her wizard guide as they explore a vast range of musical styles. With so much wonderful music to choose from, how can she ever find the song that’s meant for her? How the Gimquat Found Her Song is a heart-warming tale about the search for identity and a celebration of music in all of its forms.
Conductor: Mélanie Léonard Ensemble: Camerata NB, with special guest Platypus Theatre
Friday, December 2, 2022, 8pm Pay what you will Doors open at 7:30 pm
At the Empress Theatre.
Join Wolf Castle and the Olympic Symphonium as they deliver a unique fusion of Hip-Hop, Jazz and Classical. Local Acadian rapper Jono and Pabineau First Nation’s Raymond Sewell accompany the band as well, showcasing unique musical voices and perspectives in New Brunswick.
Pay What You Will
You may book a ticket for this performance, at no charge. When you attend the performance, we’ll provide you with an envelope, and will ask you to pay whatever amount you wish (based on your own individual experience) following the show, using cash, credit card or cheque. Ultimately, YOU decide the price of your tickets!
Rescheduled from 2022. Original tickets will be honored.
The Capitol Theatre and Tutta Musica are proud to partner to present THE SOUND OF MUSIC. This professional musical theatre production will be presented at the beautiful Capitol Theatre from February 25 to March 5, 2023.
The production is proud to welcome back many alumni cast members, some from the first production of The Sound of Music in 2016. The 2023 production will reunite Curtis Sullivan and Emma Rudy, who shared the Capitol stage in the 2019 production of Beauty and the Beast (as Gaston and Belle), this time playing Captain von Trapp and Maria.
Cast – The Sound of Music 2023 Maria Rainer – Emma Rudy Captain Georg von Trapp – Curtis Sullivan Max Detweiler – Andrew McAllister Elsa Schraeder – Véronique Hébert Liesl – Emma Vickers Rolf Gruber – Émilien Cormier Mother Abbess – Mélanie LeBlanc Sister Berthe – Caroline Coon Sister Margaretta – Bethany Robertson Sister Sophia – Aryelle Morrison Louisa – Chloë Gaudet and Élodie Gallant Brigitta – Gabriella Castro-Levesque and Ève-Line Belliveau Friedrich – Dominique Melanson Kurt – Mathias Goguen and Olivier Émond Marta – Molly Nelson and Sasha LeBlanc Gretl – Juliet Lockhart and Lauren Payne Franz – Jamie Cordes Herr Zeller – Matt Kinney Frau Zeller – Arianny Vicent Frau Schmidt – Mélanie Lavoie Baron Elberfeld – Ian MacGowan Baroness Elberfeld – Annette Crummey Admiral von Schreiber – Blair Lawrence Ursula – Aryelle Morrison
Ensemble Dorrie Brown, Louis Caissie, Madelaine Chaloux, Hilary Cole, Ellie Côté, Becky Forbes, Ethan Foster, Mia Guignard, Sarah Hackett, Dan Murphy and Alex Ryan.
A distinctly New Brunswick production This will be the sixth professional musical theatre partnership between Tutta Musica and the Capitol Theatre. The producers are aiming to reflect this community’s language duality and for the first time, incorporate some French language lyrics in sections of certain songs. “As New Brunswickers, it’s very common in our day to day lives to switch back and forth between French and English in the same conversation” commented Marshall Button. “We wanted to reflect our unique local flair in this show – to give a nod to our Francophone audiences who have supported these productions since the very beginning… a very good place to start.”
Music by RICHARD RODGERS Lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II Book by HOWARD LINDSAY and RUSSEL CROUSE Suggested by “The Trapp Family Singers” by Maria Augusta Trapp
The story behind this world-renowned musical features a young postulant who proves too high-spirited for the religious life, is dispatched to serve as governess for the seven children of a widowed naval Captain. Her growing rapport with the youngsters, coupled with her generosity of spirit, gradually captures the heart of the stern Captain, and they marry. Upon returning from their honeymoon, they discover that Austria has been invaded by the Nazis who demand the Captain’s immediate service in their navy. The family’s narrow escape over the mountains to Switzerland on the eve of World War II provides one of the most thrilling and inspirational finales ever presented in the theatre.
The complete program will be revealed during a press conference which will take place on Tuesday October 18 at 10 am at the Aberdeen Cultural Centre. Tickets will be available on the FICFA website at a later date, follow our social media for updates.
In thirty years of activity, the Debussy String Quartet has been acclaimed throughout the world, continually sharing the same passion in its musical interpretations on the world’s most prestigious stages: Japan, China, United States, Canada, Australia, Russia, Europe, gaining renown through regular tours on all the continents.
Thirty years of evolution which have made the Quartet a key player on the international music scene, with numerous awards, including a First Prize in the Evian International String Quartet Competition in 1993 and a Victoire de la musique 1996 (« Best Chamber Music Group”). Today, the professional recognition of the Debussy String Quartet is indisputable
At 56, Canada’s foremost well-heeled troubadour has made a most unlikely discovery: domestic bliss. All it took, it turns out, was leaving the city he loved.
Following 30 years as an emblem of Toronto’s west end, Ron Sexsmith reluctantly uprooted to the serene hamlet of Stratford, Ontario, and the melodic, playful, theatrically vivacious Hermitage came gushing out.
“Almost immediately after arriving here I just felt this kind of enormous stress cloud evaporate and all these songs started coming,” recalls Sexsmith. “I’d walk along the river every day into town and feel like Huckleberry Finn or something. It had a really great effect on my overall state of being.”
This new zen can be heard from the first moments of Kinks-esque album opener, Spring of the Following Year, as the serene sound of birds situate the listener into Sexsmith’s state of grace.
It’s not like he was planning to write his 16th long player as soon as he arrived, he adds. After all, Sexsmith was already quite busy turning his first novel, Deer Life, into a prospective musical. But when melodies as infectious as the Chi-Lights-inspired You Don’t Want to Hear It or the ear-worm inducing Lo and Behold entered his mind, he had to get them on record. Adding his signature mischievously astute worldplay (in Dig Nation, for example) to ground the album firmly in the Sexsmith oeuvre. Even the album’s title is a coy subversion of the 15-time Juno nominee’s own expectations upon arriving in Justin Bieber’s hometown. “I felt I’d reached the age where I could be a hermit finally, but it didn’t really work out that way,” he laughs.
Further reflecting Sexsmith’s new confidence, Hermitage is the first album on which he played nearly all the instruments, an idea he credits to producer and longtime drummer Don Kerr. “Don said ‘Why don’t you make one of those sort of Paul McCartney-type records?’ and it’s like a light bulb went on over my head,” he says. “That had never occurred to me.”
The result is the songwriter’s most self-assured collection, still charmingly subtle yet increasingly full of musical vigor, as on Chateau Mermaid, an ode to his own Stratford Graceland, or the surprisingly hopeful Small Minded World, (originally penned for the Adams Family film), in which Sexsmith croons, ‘Oh now don’t feel blue ‘cos they don’t get you, you’ll win this small minded world.’
Harmer’s sixth album and first in a decade, Are You Gone is a deeply personal and political collection of songs motivated by the beauty of life, the urgency of the climate crisis, and the question of loss. She calls it a spiritual successor of sorts to her acclaimed 2000 debut, You Were Here, which TIME called the year’s best debut album. Nearly 20 years after that release, Are You Gone brought a close to Harmer’s period of musical quietude with a rousing artistic statement, rich in detail and emotion, from the heart and for the spirit.
Harmer has been nominated for the Polaris Music Prize, garnered two JUNO Awards, and been widely praised for her “razor-sharp songwriting chops” (NPR Music) and “plainly hooky” melodic sensibility (Rolling Stone).Day of show tickets will be $44.70
