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.
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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