22nd Annual Nova Scotia Folk Art Festival
August 1, 2010www.nsfolkartfestival.com
Auction, 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
July25th - July31st, 2010
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 Festival of Crafts
July 9th to July 11th, 2010The annual Lunenburg Festival of Crafts showcases some of Atlantic Canada's finest artisans and crafts people. This quality arts & crafts show and community festival also features traditional Lunenburg food and great entertainment.
Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival
25th Annual Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival
August 5 – 8, 2010
In 2010, the Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival celebrates 25 years of presenting 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
July 24th and 25th, 2010
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
