2015 Fiddle Fest

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Friday, March 20th, 2015
Friday March 20 7:00pm Saturday March 21 10:00am Saturday March 21 7:00pm

Fiddle Fest Concert with The Foggy Hogtown Boys The March 20th 2015 Fiddle Fest is about to explode on the scene at the Big Yellow Merville hall with The Foggy Hogtown Boys.

Since 2001, The Foggy Hogtown Boys have been delivering the goods to bluegrass fans across North America and around the world. What started as a weekly Toronto bar gig among friends has grown into one of Canada's most popular roots music acts. The FHB are noted for having the ability to slide between being a bluegrass band or an old-time band with remarkable ease and authority. Even a casual listener can tell that the FHB owe as much to the country music that happened pre-1945 as to the golden age of bluegrass.

Fiddle Fest is an annual event in the Comox Valley that offers a rocking fiddle concert on Friday, March 20th with the FHB; Saturday morning and afternoon musical workshops with the band and other instructors; and a $10.00 “kick your heels up” Contra dance with the FHB and Fiddlejam on Saturday evening, March 21st.

And all this take place at the Big Yellow Merville Hall, THE hall in the Comox Valley for good old time music, where foot stomping fiddle music will raise your spirits to the rafters. The Saturday Fiddle Fest workshops at the Merville hall start at 10:30 and continue to 1:00pm. There will be $5.00 workshops in fiddle, guitar, keyboard, mandolin, banjo and bass with some jamming thrown in for fun. All are welcome, beginners included. Doors open at 10:00am.

The Big Yellow Merville Hall is right on the Old Island Highway, between Campbell River and Courtenay and is in the midst of the Stolen Church renovation which you can view at intermission. Doors open at 6:30pm and the concert will start at 7:00pm.

Tickets at the door are $20.00 adult and $10.00 youth. In advance at Long & McQuade, Courtenay; Blue Heron in Comox; and The Music Plant, Campbell River.