“Pipes Plaid and Pageantry” Parade – Call For Entries

Everyone loves a parade-here is your chance to be part of one!

Promote your business, organization, event or festival by considering an entry in “Pipes Plaid and Pageantry” this coming Thursday August 11, 2011 at 7:30pm. [entry form]

Join the parade or enjoy the fun!

“Pipes Plaid and Pageantry” Parade

Bring a lawn chair pull up “a piece of the curb” and enjoy the second annual community parade.

Remember,

Following the bands enjoy a “Sneak MacPeek” of the Festival’s fine entertainment everywhere downtown!

Free Open Air Movie “the Waterhorse”

Open Air Movie at Stone Gable Hall free for everyone (181 st Andrew st. East)

Feature film “the Waterhorse” family fun fit for all ages!

Agnus is a young and lonely boy in Scotland, his father who he was very close with has just gone off into WWII to fight. His home has just been taken over by English soldiers to fight off the German’s. His family has lost something too, life and laughter. But when Agnus comes across what looks like a strange rock, is actually an egg left by a Water Horse, the rarest of all creatures, there can only be one in the world at a time. But he takes care of the baby who is water bound, while protecting him from his mom and the soldiers. But when the water horse, he named Crusoe, has grown too big, he and a family friend put him in the Lochness Lake. And so the story goes…
More about this movie on the IMDb website.

Thursday Night Entertainment:

• Fergus Legion-the Rogues, 8:30-10PM
• D’s Sports Bar and Grill- Liam MacGlashon and the Kitchen Party
• Goofie Newfie-The Rum Devils
• Breadalbane-Ed Miller and Friends,
• O’Brien’s-David Leask and James McKie
• The Brewhouse-the Shenanigans

Extra Special Events Downtown:

• “Scottish International Night” featuring Scottish fare, live music and much more at Van Gali’s in Fergus,6-9pm
• Celtic Celidh Concert at the Fergus Grand Theatre, Saturday August 13, 8PM enjoy Tom Leadbeater, Ian Bruce, Janice Howey, Nick Gush and Ed Miller and Friends.

For more info on “painting the town Tartan-visit www.fergusscottishfestival.com or call 519-787-0099.

Videos From The 2010 Fergus Scottish Festival Opening Ceremonies

Or check out our own FergusPages page on the Fergus Scottish Festival and Highland Games.

I just received the program for the upcoming 2011 Canada Day / Dominion Day in Fergus and Elora (Centre Wellington, Ontario).

Check out the events, and have a good time!

Events include the firefighters’ breakfast, soap box derby, free hotdog and beverage (Bisell Park), Rotary Club duck race (Elora) and fireworks (Fergus).

Oh, Canada…

Grammy-nominated Elora Festival Singers will perform Bach’s great B minor Mass in Guelph on Sunday, April 3, 2011 at 3:00 p.m. Considered one of the greatest creations of all times, this spectacular work represents the pinnacle of Bach’s creative genius. Noel Edison will conduct the Singers with orchestra and soloists in this monumental work in the glorious acoustics of the Church of our Lady Immaculate in Guelph. Read the rest of this entry

Yesterday I wrote about the Grammy Nomination for the Elora Festival Singers. Today I received a press release about it, and thought you might want to read it as well:

Elora Festival and Singers – Grammy Nominee

We are thrilled to announce the Grammy nomination of The Elora Festival Singers and Noel Edison for their nomination in “Best Small Ensemble Performance” category, for their music of Eric Whitacre CD recording.

“It’s an overwhelming vote of confidence that the singers have done well and an honour to be in such prestigious company with the others that have been nominated. Regardless of the outcome, I am looking forward to attending the awards in February.”
Noel Edison

Praises are coming in from all over the globe…

“Eric Whitacre’s choral works have been generously surveyed on disc, but only a handful of choirs have yet devoted an entire recording to his music. He couldn’t have more luminous or illuminating interpreters than the Elora Festival Singers, a choir that I’ve heartily praised in the past and that deserves the same recognition here…”
Classics Today

“None of this is easy to sing, but the Elora Festival Singers shine here from start to finish. Along the way, they deliver whatever Whitacre calls for: from hushed, crystalline vocal transparency to shrieking power. Excellent recorded sound reveals their every note and nuance…” Lindsay Koob
American Record Guide

“These works are existential choral moments, beautifully crafted, and harmonized to express a compressed moment in time. Such sublime sonorities transcend descriptions such as ‘warm’, ‘glistening’ or ‘shimmering’…” singers.com

This past weekend, the Elora Festival and Singers presented Handel’s Messiah at Knox Church in Elora to a capacity audience. Noel is currently in Halifax conducting Symphony Nova Scotia in two performances of Messiah and the Elora Festival Singers are performing in Toronto at Roy Thompson Hall in their role as professional core for Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. Next week’s three Festival of Carols performances in Elora are now completely sold out.

For more information please contact:

Elora Festival Singers
33 Henderson St. Elora (Monday to Friday 9am to 4pm)
By phone: 519.846.0331
Online at: www.elorafestival.com

For additional media information contact:
Julie Denneny, Marketing Manager (519) 846-0331 julie@elorafestival.com

Check out the nominated Eric Whitacre: Choral Music CD (with the Elora Festival Singers) on Amazon.ca or Amazon.com.

The Elora Festival Singers has been nominated for a 2011 Grammy Award! Wow.

They have been nominated in the “Best Small Ensemble Performance” category for the Eric Whitacre Choral CD.

You can order from this page!

Amazon.ca

Amazon.com

Congratulations, Elora festival Singers – and hope your bring home the gold!