Folksong fiesta

Thursday, September 26th, 2024 to May 22nd, 2025 AT 7PM
Halifax Central Library
Paul O’Regan Hall
5440 Spring Garden Road, Halifax
Free for All!  Child Friendly.

6 AMAZING CONCERTS / 10 AWESOME ARTISTS

Concert II: October 24th, 2024 at 7PM

The Lady in the Lighthouse: the Catherine Gallagher Story
An ORIGINAL new show by story teller and singer, CINDY CAMPBELL-STONE

Catherine Gallager was one of folklorist, Dr. Helen Creightons main informants. This show contains various stories from her life and eight of the forty songs that she sung for Helen Creighton.

Catherine Marion Scott Gallagher was born in 1889 and raised on a farm in Enfield, Nova Scotia. She was one of 9 children. Her father, Donald Scott, was a farmer and a railway man. It was mostly her mother, Sophia Horne Scott, who taught Catherine many songs, ballads and broadsides. Catherine lived in a lighthouse at the edge of a cliff at Chebucto Head. Catherine’s niece, Marion, once described Catherine as a lovely person and everyone thought she was “a real lady.” This is why the show is called “Lady in the Lighthouse.”

Cindy acknowledges the Helen Creighton Folklore Society for providing her with grant money to do the research and production of this show.

Folksong Fiesta explores folk music from around the world, introducing forms of music that audiences may not have heard before, including traditional Nova Scotian and Acadian music, Swedish folk music, First Nations story and song, Persian traditional music, and more.  This series showcases a diverse range of styles, instruments, and vocalists.

Co-presented by Vocalypse Productions / Halifax Central Library
Generously funded by the Canada Council for the Arts

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