Friday September 20, 2019 • 7:30PM

Ken Prue presents Mark Haines and his long time friend and colleague Tom Leighton in concert at The Cobourg LOFT as part of a 5 stop Ontario Tour after stops at Summerfolk and PEI’s Fortune Hall.

These guys have been playing music together for 35 years. Though most of their work has been in Ontario, they have toured in the U.S. and Britain and as far afield as Taiwan. Tom is a fabulous accordion and keyboard player and is often working them both at the same time. He’s played The LOFT before with Marie-Lynn Hammond to great acclaim. Haines and Leighton play a repertoire of original and traditional Celtic and North American folk roots music. You gotta hear their version of The Orange Blossom Special. Show starts at 7:30.

Advance tickets $20 + fees at the Vic Hall Box Office. Pay at the door $25.

Sunday, September 29 • 3:00pm

Les AMIS Concerts presents Colin Maier & Joseph Petrić

Les AMIS Concerts, now in its 37th year, opens the 2019/2020 season at The LOFT at 3 PM on Sunday September 29 with a spirited and varied program, performed by Colin Maier and free base accordionist Joseph Petrić. Together they will perform a wonderful program of new and old music:

• J.S. Bach: Trio Sonata No. 1 in E flat major, BWV 525
• J.S. Bach: Trio Sonata No. 6, BWV 530
• Georg Telemann: Fantasia #3 for solo oboe
• J.S. Bach Fantasia in c minor, BWV 906
• Witold Lutoslawski: Dance Preludes
• Maurice Ravel: Cinq Mélodies Populaires Grecques
• Bela Bartók: Roumanian Dances

Seating is limited and this series sold out last Spring and Fall. Reserve your tickets early.

Tickets

$30 + service fee Victoria Hall Box Office

Sunday October 27, 2019 • 3PM, Doors at 2pm

Concert Hall at Victoria Hall
55 King Street West, Cobourg K9A 2M2

The incredible Dave Young Trio and friends take the stage at the Concert Hall at Victoria Hall in Cobourg.

Group of Seven: The great American trumpet player and official jazz ambassador for the USA in the 50s and 60s, Louis Armstrong, was once asked: “What is Jazz?” His answer is famous: “If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.” Conversely, there is scarcely any debate about what constitutes classical music. – symphonic music written by Europeans in the period 1600 to 1850 and mostly played by large ensembles. In classical music, the composition largely controls what the musicians perform; in jazz, while the musicians might play within a predetermined chordal structure improvisation rules the day as musicians “talk to each other” in musical performance. (Note: This was written by a non-musician – KP).

Read more: The Dave Young Trio - Featuring the Penderecki Quartet

Thursday October 31, 2019 • 7:30 pm, Doors at 7pm

Ken Prue presents John Wort Hannam Band at the Loft Cinema.

John Wort Hannam – In 2001 John Wort Hannam quit his teaching job and spent 10 months depleting his savings while sat at his kitchen table, wearing a lucky hat, writing his first ten songs. Those songs would become his first recording Pocket Full Of Holes, released in 2003.

Seventeen years later, the Alberta musician is releasing his seventh full-length recording Acres Of Elbow Room and has a few feathers in that lucky hat for his first six offerings. Feathers that include a JUNO nomination, a Canadian Folk Music Award for Best Album of the Year, a CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award, a Kerrville Texas New Folk win, and numerous Western Canadian Music Award and Canadian Folk Music Award nominations.

Recent years have seen a great deal of change in John’s life – becoming a Dad, turning 50, a move to the “big city” of Lethbridge, a long, deep bout of depression, and episodes of losing his singing voice. But John has emerged a better songwriter, a better singer, and a better player. On Acres Of Elbow Room, John has further refined his lyrical style and has landed squarely on his niche in the folk-roots world. He’s spent years learning the craft of songwriting and is taking those tools to write some of his most personal songs. He has, quite literally, found his voice.

Ken Prue: I listened to a lot of John’s songs after he asked to play The LOFT. I danced in my chair to some of them, and I wept to some.

Watch and listen to this one that sums up the damage done by residential schools as much as anything I have ever read or heard:

Man of God by John Wort Hannam : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFGuhZLJH8A

Tickets: Vic Hall Box Office $25 + fees

Sunday November 3, 2019 • 3:00pm, Doors at 2:30pm

Ken Prue presents singer/songwriter Nicole Lisa Craig live on stage at the Loft in Cobourg.

Get ready to be taken on a musical and emotional journey through lyrical landscapes and majestic soundscapes in a beautiful, art-deco, 1922-vintage former worship space. Nicole Lisa Craig is a singer/songwriter who blends elements of New Age and Pop with Classical and World music influences. Her angelic vocals over electric classical synth guitar blend magically with veteran guitarist David Henman’s soaring guitar riffs. David Henman was the co-founder of April Wine, has been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and has received a Juno Award. They will be joined by Tom Nagy on Bass.

Tickets: $25 + fees Victoria Hall Box Office