The Blue Room in Coboconk presents: Award-Winning Canadian Singer-Songwriter Will Gillespie performing his "Campfire Cabaret" historical storytelling Folk Musical "MINE! True Stories and Legends of the Porcupine Gold Rush" with none other than Old-Time Folk and Jazz multi-instrumentalist Sam Allison AKA LOTUS WIGHT from Sheesham and Lotus accompanying him on upright bass, banjo, jaw harp and bass harmonica and playing his own set of Old-Time Music.
"MINE! True Stories and Legends of the Porcupine Gold Rush" is a 12-story song-cycle, taking the listener on a musical journey back in time to a lost world of prospectors, pioneers, bootlegger-bandits, high graders, mushers and moonshiners! Celebrating the unsung Folk heroes behind the local legends an adventurous lost chapter of Canadian History: the Porcupine Gold Rush of 1909.
Featuring new songs written in various Old-Time styles inspired by the popular Music of the period from Bluegrass to Ragtime, Hot Club Jazz, Swing, Vaudeville, Music Hall, Barrelhouse Blues, Waltzes and MORE! and including background projections of original Northern Ontario landscape paintings by visual Artist Susan Robinson and historical photos of the real people, places and events Will is singing about provided by the Timmins Museum National Exhibition Centre.
This is going to be a fun evening out at the turn of the last century way up North in the Porcupine Camp!
Put on your glad rags! Your fanciest Sunday best duds to go out for a night on the town at the time when the Wild West met the Jazz Age!
There will be a prize for best Old-Time costume!
5:00pm
$10 cover
Dinner available a la carte from the Pattie House Menu. Drinks from the bar. It's a licensed restaurant.
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