2024 Winterset Bios
17 April 2024
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Jamie Fitzpatrick is back with another amazing line-up of new and upcoming singer/songwriters, as well as some familiar faces, in an evening of musical entertainment.
Singers/Songwriters: Clare Follett, Pamela Morgan, Peter Willie Youngtree, Mary Barry
Host: Jamie Fitzpatrick
Readers/Writers: Victoria Barbour, Kate Robbins, Melanie Martin
Host: Heather Barrett
Heather Barrett will begin our literary weekend with love and romance in a discussion with internationally best-selling romance writers Victoria Barbour, Melanie Martin and Kate Robbins. Love is in the Newfoundland air!
Chris Brookes will lead a discussion with Jane Christmas, Katherine Govier, and Madeleine Thien on how times and places intersect in people’s lives and influence writing.
Readers/Writers: Jane Christmas, Katherine Govier, Madeleine Thien
Host: Chris Brookes
Readers/Writers: Melissa Barbeau, Rosalind Gill, Azzo Rezori
Host: Mack Furlong
Mack Furlong will introduce you to three new authors – Melissa Barbeau, Rosalind Gill and Azzo Rzori – as they discuss the trials, tribulations, joys and thrills of becoming a writer.
Join us at St. Alban’s Church in Burnside for Instant Choir. Led by Julia Halfyard, we will sing Wayne Chaulk’s Song for Newfoundland. Open to anyone who loves to sing. We will learn the song, sing some harmonies, perform the song and have some fun in the process.
Host: Julia Halfyard (leader)
Paul Rowe will lead a discussion with the creative team of Jillian Keiley and Robert Chafe. This duo has been collaborating on innovative and creative work since their first project: In Your Dreams Freud in 1995. Since that time, their theatre company, Artistic Fraud has become one of Newfoundland’s foremost theatre companies. They specialize in large scale chorus-based work where spectacle meets story. Wayne Johnston will also be joining the panel for what will surely be a captivating discussion.
Readers/Writers: Jillian Keiley, Robert Chafe, Wayne Johnston
Host: Paul Rowe
Immediately following BMO Winterset Award Voices, the Festival Board is pleased to invite all Winterset in Summer event audiences to attend a reception in the Centre’s Foyer where they will have an opportunity to meet this year’s writers, artists, musicians and panel hosts.
Host: Board of Directors
Join the 2017 BMO Winterset Award finalists Bridget Canning, Joel Thomas Hynes and Wayne Johnston as they talk about their respective works with Winterset’s founding host Michael Enright.
Readers/Writers: Bridget Canning, Joel Thomas Hynes, Wayne Johnston
Host: Michael Enright
2018 Canada Reads finalists Sharon Bala (The Boat People) and Omar El Akkad (American War) discuss their debut novels with host Noreen Golfman.
Readers/Writers: Sharon Bala, Omar El Akkad
Host: Noreen Golfman
Local geologists Art Dyke and Ray Penny will take you down the rocky paths of the peninsula. Two sessions; maximum 25 persons per walk.
Host: Art Dyke and or Ray Penny
Local geologists Art Dyke and Ray Penny will take you down the rocky paths of the peninsula. Two sessions; maximum 25 persons per walk.
Host: Art Dyke and or Ray Penny
All Morning Session – Book launches from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. Keep checking our website for further details on this event and the authors who will be participating.
Readers/Writers: TBA
Host: TBA
2018 – Festival Friends
2018 -Government of Canada
2018 – Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
2018 – Principal Sponsors
2018 – Donors/Supporters
Eric West – musician/writer in residence at Terra Nova National Park.
Winterset in Summer and Terra Nova National Park will again partner to provide a writer in residence at the Park’s Activity Centre from Monday, August 6th to Thursday, August 9th inclusive. This year’s musician/writer in residence is Eric West.
Eric West is a guitarist, composer and publisher from Ladle Cove, Notre Dame Bay. He performs original, folk and classical music, primarily on solo guitar. Eric has recorded with folk groups, classical ensembles and the children’s musical duo ‘Heather and Eric’. He has composed music for radio, television and stage. Eric’s publications include a guitar method book/CD, seven volumes of folk song arrangements and a children’s book/CD. His music is featured on over a dozen recordings. Eric is president and artistic director of the Soundbone Traditional Arts Foundation – a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and promoting this province’s traditional music, dance and storytelling arts. Among other activities, Soundbone organizes school tours, community workshops, a Summer Music Series and the Vinland Music Camp. The Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council awarded Eric the 2007 Arts Achievement Award for his contribution to the arts in this province.
“Lyrical Voices” Jamie Fitzpatrick is back with another amazing line-up of new and upcoming singer/songwriters, as well as some familiar faces, in an evening of musical entertainment. Singers/Songwriters: Clare Follett,
