Good as a Concert: The Rites of Spring

Saturday, March 23, 10:30 a.m.-9 p.m.

MMaP gallery, second floor, Arts and Culture Centre; Suncor Hall, School of Music

Traditional music performance series Good as a Concert returns with a day-long event to celebrate the change of season with songs and stories from our folk music heritage that reflect all the promise, inevitability, joy and disappointment of spring. Join us on Saturday, March 23, 2024 as we push winter out the door and usher in a new season!

The March 23 event will begin with a Storytelling Session at 10:30 AM, featuring Mary Fearon, Harry Ingram, Jim Payne and Catherine Wright. The afternoon Folksong Session starts at 2:30 PM with singers Eleanor Dawson, Paul Dean, Mark Manning, and Monica Walsh, with both sessions at the MMaP Gallery on the second floor of the St. John’s Arts and Culture Centre. An evening concert featuring Anita Best, Joe Byrne, Aaron Collis, and Grace Nolan starts at 7:30 PM at Suncor Hall in the MUN School of Music Building. Tickets are $10 for the daytime sessions, $25 for the evening concert, all available at the door. You may also purchase a day pass for $40.

From the tragic overtones of lost love in Early Spring to the frustrated resignation of Our Island is Covered with Fog, knowing that For the Fish We Must Prepare to the sealing tragedies of The Newfoundland and Greenland Disasters, the landlocked rhythms of Hurling Down the Pines to the lusty High Times in Our Ship, and the loneliness of The River Drivers Lament to a sailor’s anticipation of reuniting with his Charming Blue-Eyed Mary, this province’s relationship with spring in all its complexity is explored in our vast folk song repertoire.

Good as a Concert, a collaboration between Memorial University’s Research Centre for Music, Media, and Place (MMaP) and local folk singers Eleanor Dawson and Jim Payne, celebrates the coming season with lesser-known songs and stories from Newfoundland and Labrador’s folk music traditions.

Presented by Jim Payne and Eleanor Dawson

Event Listing 2024-03-23 10:30:00 2024-03-23 21:00:00 America/St_Johns Good as a Concert: The Rites of Spring Traditional music performance series Good as a Concert returns with a day-long event to celebrate the change of season with songs and stories from our folk music heritage that reflect all the promise, inevitability, joy and disappointment of spring. Join us on Saturday, March 23, 2024 as we push winter out the door and usher in a new season! The March 23 event will begin with a Storytelling Session at 10:30 AM, featuring Mary Fearon, Harry Ingram, Jim Payne and Catherine Wright. The afternoon Folksong Session starts at 2:30 PM with singers Eleanor Dawson, Paul Dean, Mark Manning, and Monica Walsh, with both sessions at the MMaP Gallery on the second floor of the St. John’s Arts and Culture Centre. An evening concert featuring Anita Best, Joe Byrne, Aaron Collis, and Grace Nolan starts at 7:30 PM at Suncor Hall in the MUN School of Music Building. Tickets are $10 for the daytime sessions, $25 for the evening concert, all available at the door. You may also purchase a day pass for $40. From the tragic overtones of lost love in Early Spring to the frustrated resignation of Our Island is Covered with Fog, knowing that For the Fish We Must Prepare to the sealing tragedies of The Newfoundland and Greenland Disasters, the landlocked rhythms of Hurling Down the Pines to the lusty High Times in Our Ship, and the loneliness of The River Drivers Lament to a sailor’s anticipation of reuniting with his Charming Blue-Eyed Mary, this province’s relationship with spring in all its complexity is explored in our vast folk song repertoire. Good as a Concert, a collaboration between Memorial University’s Research Centre for Music, Media, and Place (MMaP) and local folk singers Eleanor Dawson and Jim Payne, celebrates the coming season with lesser-known songs and stories from Newfoundland and Labrador’s folk music traditions. MMaP gallery, second floor, Arts and Culture Centre; Suncor Hall, School of Music Jim Payne and Eleanor Dawson