The musical line up this year features musicians from all across
Canada, as well as a few from further afield. Please remember
that admission to the festival is to the overall event, not any
particular musical performance.
Friday Highlights – Start the day off with a
special performance by Jim Cuddy. Followed by songstress
Babe Gurr and a double set of the Blues featuring
Rick Fines, Sam Hurrie,
PaulKeim, David Sinclair,
and Suzie Vinnick. The Todd
Butler Trio makes an appearance and then, straight from Ireland,
an amazing performance by Four Men and A Dog. Down on the Garden
Stage you can hear a variety of tunes from a diverse group of
musicians including solo sets from Blues musicians Sam Hurrie,
Suzie Vinnick and Rick Fines.
Saturday Highlights – Saturday we start off
with folk rock group Spirit of the West, followed by Canadian
icon Valdy, more music from Babe Gurr, and some great bluegrass
tunes from Four Chords of Wood. The amazing singer songwriter
Jesse Winchester will perform followed by a double set of tunes
from festival favourite Connie Kaldor. And down on the Garden
Stage you will find musicians who play in a variety of styles
such as the bluegrass group Highrise Lonesome, local singer
songwriter Gord Carter and SOTW front man
John Mann, playing a
solo set.
Sunday Highlights – Sunday we are starting off
with a performance from award winning songwriter Fred Eaglesmith,
more music from Jesse Winchester, and then the Fabulous
Ginn
Sisters, who made a surprise appearance at the festival last
year. Country singer songwriter and local resident Sean Hogan
takes the stage followed by the a cappella group the Euphorics
and folk singer Valdy. On the Garden Stage you will find a real
mix of performers including two amazing guitarists David
Sinclair, and Paul Keim, followed by husband and wife duo the
Konsorados.
Monday Highlights – Red-hot blues pianist
Kenny” Blues Boss” Wayne will start off the day followed by the
a cappella group the Euphorics. In the afternoon we will present
our annual Great Canadian Songs Concert, with (SHOCK),
no
surprise guests this year. The concert will feature musicians,
Jake Galbraith,Todd Butler and
Valdy playing Great Canadian
Songs for you. The Garden Stage will feature a variety of styles
of music as we showcase the best in acoustic music for your
listening pleasure.
Kid’s Highlights - This year the focus of the
interactive Kid's Area is circus, circus, circus! We will have
circus shows and circus workshops every day. Mike Battie
will bring his amazing juggling, unicycle and physical skills
and Sand Northrup will bring her remarkable One
Woman Circus act to the Filberg Festival Kid's Area. Traci
Skuce will teach daily yoga workshops in the morning so
that you can limber up and be ready for circus school. Families
will find many other activities to keep them occupied in the
Kid's Area: face painting, the Lego tent, the arts and crafts
table, the painting easels and more.
