Lunenburg Street Festival
LUNENBURG STREET FESTIVAL and ARTWALK
SATURDAY JULY 9TH 2011
(Rain date Sunday July 10th)
10:00 am to 4:00pm
Come out and enjoy the best of life on Lunenburg's Main Streets
great food, music, art, street performers, shopping and children's activities
This year the street festival has expanded to include:
LINCOLN STREET
(Kaulbach to King)
KING STREET
(Lincoln to Montague)
MAINSTAGE (by Kinley's)
10am - String Fever
11am - Pat Watson with Hank Middleton
12Noon - Eilidh Campbell & Paul Buchanan
1pm - Slow Cooking Cover
2pm - Jennah Barry & Becca South
KAULBACH STAGE
10am - Katherine Heim
11am - Jon & Chris Cusack
1pm - Laurel Genge with family & friends
2pm - Max Cooper Flint & Liam Brittain
BUSKING at FOLK HARBOUR office
10am to 12 noon - Max Cooper-Flint
12 noon to 2pm - Katherine Heim
2pm to 3pm - Krystle Nowe
ACTIVITIES for CHILDREN
Violet the Clown & guests
Stretch & Candy the Clown (making baloon animals)
22nd Annual Nova Scotia Folk Art Festival
July 31, 2011
www.nsfolkartfestival.comAuction, special exhibits and a great country atmosphere featuring 40 participating folk artists with over 1500 new works offered for sale
Architecturally unique and alive with colour, the fishing port of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia is the perfect setting for the annual Nova Scotia Folk Art Festival! When you bring together forty folk artists and more than 1,500 pieces of new artworks the resulting atmosphere is nothing less than spectacular!
Boxwood Music Festival
July24th - July 30th, 2011
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia becomes the traditional flute playing center of the world during the last week of July each year as top performers, teachers, scholars, makers, students and enthusiasts gather for a week to learn and share. Many of the musical traditions explored at Boxwood typically employ simple-system wooden flutes, but it's not required that you bring one - nor is it necessary for you to even know how to play one!
Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival
26th Annual Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival
August 4 – 7, 2011
In 2011, the Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival celebrates 26 years ofpresenting traditional and contemporary folk music that hightlight the
culture and history of Nova Scotia and other North Atlantic regions
through music, dance and other forms of artistic expression. For four full
days from high atop Blockhouse Hill to the Fisheries Museum of the
Atlantic wharf, this historic port is alive with music.
Paint Sea on Site and Silent Auction
23rd and 24th, 2011
Every summer the Lunenburg Art Gallery hosts a wet paint sale called Paint Sea on Site. As many as 70 artists converge on Lunenburg for a two day painting extravaganza.
Summer Opera Festival
June 18th and 19th, 2010.
Friday, June 18
Some Enchanted Evening is a light programme of Broadway favourites
featuring the MCO Chorus and audience favourites mezzo-soprano Nina
Scott-Stoddart and baritone Andrew Tees. Diane Oxner Macdonald will conduct and the accompanist is Heather Kristenson. Enjoy excerpts from Guys and Dolls, South Pacific, Les Misérables, Sweeney Todd, The Sound of Music and other shows.
Performance starts at 7.30 p.m. on Friday, June 18 at the Pearl Theatre,
Lunenburg. Tickets for Some Enchanted Evening are $15 adults, $5 for
children 12 and under, available from Sagor's Bookstore, Bridgewater;
Fulton's Pharmacy, Lunenburg; Kinburn Pharmacy, Mahone Bay; or call 634-4280.
Saturday, June 19
Don Giovanni is the centrepiece of the Summer Opera Festival and will be
performed at the Pearl Theatre in Lunenburg at 7.30 p.m. Tickets are $20,
children 12 and under $5. Lunenburg tickets are available from Fulton's
Pharmacy in Lunenburg, Sagor's Bookstore in Bridgewater and Kinburn
Pharmasave in Mahone Bay, or contact MCO at 634-4280 or send email to
tickets@maritimeconcertopera
