Will Gillespie & Brian Tremblay: 2 Northern Troubadours - Historic United Church - BRUCE MINES

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Singer-Songwriter Will Gillespie performs songs from his original Northern Ontario History-themed concept album and song-cycle : "MINE! True Stories and Legends of the Porcupine Gold Rush" Performing it as a kind of Campfire Cabaret, taking the audience on a musical journey back in time to a lost world of prospectors, pioneers, bootlegger-bandits, high-graders, dogsledders and moonshiners... written in historical styles from Bluegrass to Ragtime to Concert Hall, Hot Jazz, Barrelhouse Blues, Waltzes and MORE!! Featuring projected backdrops of original Northern Ontario landscape paintings by visual Artist Susan Robinson and historical photos from the collection at the Timmins Museum National Exhibition Centre of the real people, places and events Will will be singing about.

Opening the show is Folk, Blues and Country Troubadour Brian Tremblay, performing songs from his own Northern Ontario history concept album: "In the Tracks of the Black Bear" about the Algoma Rail line with Lynn Eckroth singing with him.

Brian's father worked for the Algoma Central Railway before and after the war. His uncles and cousins also worked for the railway. His siblings were born in Northern Ontario rail towns like Hawk Junction and Chapleau. Trains run in the Tremblay family blood. Tremblay has written new songs inspired by the ACR, combined with traditional railroad songs that so many will sing along with. In the Tracks of the Black Bear celebrates the Algoma Central Railway, the people who built it and the people who worked on it.

This tour is made possible thanks to the support of the Ontario Arts Council

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• 2 Northern Troubadours Website willgillespie.ca
• Will Gillespie - website willgillespie.ca
• Brian Tremblay - website briantmusic.com

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Will Gillespie & Brian Tremblay: 2 Northern Troubadours

Singer-Songwriters Will Gillespie & Brian Tremblay separately, individually each wrote, recorded and released their own unique concept album of new, original Folk songs about a different unsung chapter of Northern Ontario history.

Will Gillespie grew up in the small gold-mining town of South Porcupine, Northern Ontario and created: "MINE! True Stories and Legends of the Porcupine Gold Rush." It celebrates the local Folk heroes behind the legends of the Porcupine Gold Rush of 1909, taking the listener on a musical journey back in time to a world of prospectors, pioneers, bootlegger-bandits, high-graders, dog-sledders and moonshiners.

Brian's father worked for the Algoma Central Railway before and after the war. His uncles and cousins also worked for the railway. His siblings were born in Northern Ontario rail towns like Hawk Junction and Chapleau. Trains run in the Tremblay family blood. Tremblay has written new songs inspired by the ACR, combined with traditional railroad songs that so many will sing along with. In the Tracks of the Black Bear celebrates the Algoma Central Railway, the people who built it and the people who worked on it.

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