Our Calendar of Events
EHAC offers workshops and concerts each season, creating opportunities for artistic expression and skill development. Based on a curated mix of genres and popularity, and mindful of our superb acoustics, up and coming musicians are invited to perform in our extraordinary space. Workshops are offered whenever teaching professionals visit the Bight and express interest in sharing their craft. Or perhaps an artist in residence will offer a class. Every season is different. Have a look at this season's offerings.
No Events Listed for April 2025
Events for July 2025
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Jul 08
Tuckamore Faculty Trio
7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Fee: $25.00
The Tuckamore Faculty Trio, comprised of the Duo Concertante (violinist Nancy Dahn and pianist Timothy Steeves) and Vernon Regehr, cello, have played together for almost two decades. This program features a newly discovered masterwork by the mega talent Clara Schumann, a trio by the JUNO award winning Newfoundland composer Bekah Simms, and Dvoraks Dumky trio, one of the most beloved and intensely spirited works for piano, violin and cello. This program, performed by three of the provinces outstanding classical artists, will be certain to move the soul and delight the senses. We hope you will join us across beautiful central and western Newfoundland to hear great music in intimate and unique venues.
The Canadian chamber ensemble Duo Concertante take their name from the inscription over Beethovens Kreutzer sonata, in stilo molto concertante, which implies a relationship of two equal, dynamic voices.
Violinist Nancy Dahn and pianist Timothy Steeves have performed more than 700 concerts across North America, Europe, Central America and China, receiving accolades at home and abroad for deeply integrated performances that flow naturally as if the music were being created on the spot (Gramophone) filled with grace and fire fury and reposea triumphant mass of non-stop energy (WholeNote).
A native of Winnipeg, cellist Vernon Regehr is an active recitalist, chamber and orchestral musician, conductor, and teacher. Regehr is on faculty at Memorial Universitys School of Music and serves as the musical advisor and conductor of Kittiwake Dance Theatre.
An avid chamber musician and teacher, he has performed numerous commissioned works for national radio broadcast. Regehr served on the performance and teaching faculty of the Kinhaven Music Festival in Vermont for many years, and has taught at numerous other festivals. He has collaborated with Ensemble Made in Canada, the Shanghai, Penderecki, Fitzwilliam, and Lafayette string quartets, Andrew Burashko, Mark Fewer, Suzie Leblanc, and Leon Fleisher. His performance of Carters cello sonata at the Groundswell New Music Festival commemorating Elliott Carters 100th birthday, showed a clear understanding of the work, while handling its hefty technical demands with finesse. (Winnipeg Free Press)
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Jul 15
Shrouds and Stays
7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Fee: $25.00Shrouds and Stays: The Ballad of Jane Wright
A family, a ship, a monkey, a sugar bowl, a storm
Catherine Wright unfurls an ancestral tale of shipwreck through narrative, original songs, recitations and movement.
It is 1890. Jane Wright sets off from England on a perilous journey aboard the merchant sailing ship Bay of Panama. Her husband is Captain and she is the only woman on board. 130 years later, her great-great granddaughter discovers Janes story and feels compelled to share it. Here, then, is a story of seafaring days gone by, of family ties, love and loss, forces of nature, inner courage and continuum - themes which will resonate in this province.
Catherine Wright is a storyteller, multi-arts practitioner and arts educator who divides her time between St Johns and Port Kirwan, Newfoundland.
A versatile performer who brings warmth and passion to her storytelling, Catherine has presented a broad range of stories (folk and fairy tales, personal narratives, ballads) at festivals, schools, theatres, galleries, outdoor venues and online, in her over 30 years of performance experience. Her background in dance is apparent in her storytelling style, and she also interweaves songs and recitations into many of her performances.
Shrouds & Stays: The Ballad of Jane Wright is Catherines newest show, a true shipwreck story of family, love, loss and continuum. Funded by ArtsNL, the show was launched in 2024 with further performances scheduled in rural community venues in Newfoundland and Cornwall, UK in 2025.
Catherine is past president of St Johns Storytelling and current provincial representative for Storytellers of Canada (SC-CC).
Photo: Bay of Panama, wrecked on Cornish coast, March 1891, by W M Harrison. Courtesy of Museum of Cornish Life, Helston, UK.
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Events for August 2025
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Aug 02
Matthew Byrne and Sherman Downey
7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Fee: $25.00
Two of Newfoundland & Labrador's most recognized voices have teamed up. Roots-rocker Sherman Downey and traditional singer Matthew Byrne, have combined their individual styles and repertoires to create an exciting fusion of traditional and modern sounds.
Since bursting on to the trad scene four years ago with his debut recording, Ballads, Matthew has swiftly earned his place as one of the East Coasts most authentic and vital traditional voices. In that time, Matthews music has traveled well beyond the rugged shores of his homeland. His role as singer and song-finder in The Dardanelles has brought him to many major international festival stages including Winnipeg Folk Festival, Celtic Connections in Glasgow, UK, and The Woodford Folk Festival in Queensland, Australia.
Sherman Downey has been wowing critics and fans since his 2010 debut release Honey for Bees with a melodic roots-rock sound which embraces folk, pop and country. Their November 2013 sophomore effort, The Sun in Your Eyes, has been the best selling album since its release at the legendary Freds Records in St. Johns, NL. The first single, Thick as Thieves, earned the boys the title of Best New Act in Canada in the CBC Searchlight Contest, beating out over 3000 acts across the country. Their highly energetic and entertaining live show has floored audiences all across Canada and as far away as the Woodford Folk Festival in Australia.
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Aug 09
Dorward and Dale
7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Fee: $25.00Doug Dorward and Andrew Dale.
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Aug 23
Community Concert
Haul out that old accordian and pull out all the stops! Or grab your guitar and pull a few strings. Maybe dust off your saxaphone and blow your own horn?
You get the idea.
This will be a community open mic for anyone who wants to sing, play, recite or tell jokes (as long as they're clean jokes eh?)
Everyone will get 10 minutes and if they go longer I will haul them off with a cane!
More details to come so start thinking about it.
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Aug 30
Duane Andrews
7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Fee: $25.00
Duane Andrews casts a wide net in the musical ocean. Uniting what would seem to be impossible traditional Newfoundland music with the swing jazz of the legendary two fingered guitarist Django Reinhardt Andrews makes it not just work, he makes it soar. The Juno award winning composer, arranger, producer, conductor and globetrotting performers latest album is the best evidence yet of his inimitable musical vision and is the sound of him, literally, bringing it all back home.
Hell be joined by the hottest swing band in the bay, The Hot Club of Conception Bay, featuring Erin Power with her magical mandolin and vibrant vocals and Isaac Andrews with his fiddle of fire.
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Events for September 2025
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Sep 06
Nico Paulo
7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Fee: $25.00
Nico Paulo is a Portuguese-Canadian musician and visual artist. Her critically-acclaimed, self-titled debut (April 2023) introduced listeners to her melodically dynamic, open-hearted songwriting as she explored the interconnected nature of relationships and the flow of time in lush, sophisticated pop arrangements.
Paulo moved to Canada in 2014 to pursue her art and music, originally setting down roots in Toronto and installing herself in the citys vibrant creative community. In the early 2020s, she moved east to St. Johns and became an essential part of Newfoundlands celebrated music scene. Lighting out from her home base on the island, Paulo has established herself as a spellbinding live performerwarbling, swooning, fluttering, dancingon stages around the world.
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