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Blending a classical tenor sound and<br />
modern stylings, Lavigne takes his audience<br />
on a riveting and enchanting journey,<br />
retelling his personal campaign to sing at<br />
Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops.<br />
Told with spectacular songs and<br />
entertaining and hilarious stories, Lavigne<br />
embodies the spirit of the underdog.<br />
On Wednesday, Aug. 10, the Algonquin<br />
Theatre welcomes Alex Cuba. A proud<br />
Canadian with Cuban roots, the Juno and<br />
Latin Grammy winner and Grammy<br />
nominee brings sugarcane-sweet melodies,<br />
pop-soul hooks and powerful guitar riffs.<br />
Taking the stage on Friday, Aug. 12 is<br />
Juno Award-nominated artist Tyler Shaw.<br />
One of the nation’s brightest emerging pop<br />
artists, there is a distinctive quality to his<br />
raw vocals and musicianship.<br />
On Saturday, Aug. 13, pianist Kyung-A<br />
Lee will perform a two-piano concert at<br />
Huntsville’s Algonquin Theatre with<br />
Younggun Kim. Their performance will<br />
include works from Rachmaninoff, Poulenc,<br />
Infante and Mayevsky.<br />
Join Bruce Cockburn, Canada’s preeminent<br />
folk musician, on Thursday, Aug.<br />
18 at the Algonquin Theatre for a musical<br />
journey that promises to rekindle memories.<br />
With numerous awards to his credit,<br />
including an Order of Canada, Cockburn<br />
has been able to combine musicianship and<br />
songwriting with a social conscience that<br />
has allowed him to be an outspoken<br />
advocate for a number of causes.<br />
On Friday, Aug. 19, the Huntsville<br />
Festival of the Arts welcomes to the<br />
Algonquin Theatre Hey Rosetta!, a sevenpiece<br />
indie rock band that hails from St.<br />
John’s, Newfoundland. Expect songwriter<br />
Tim Baker’s haunting and distinctive voice,<br />
lyrical sensibility, indie-rock precision with<br />
a pop sensibility and fierce cello, violin and<br />
French horn.<br />
Rounding out the lineup for <strong>August</strong> are<br />
the Nylons, who perform on Saturday, Aug.<br />
26 at the Algonquin Theatre. Since the mid<br />
‘70s The Nylons have been weaving their a<br />
cappella magic around the globe, but all<br />
good things must come to an end and they<br />
are now saying goodbye to fans during a<br />
year-long series of farewell shows.<br />
For more information, visit<br />
www.huntsvillefestival.on.ca<br />
If you appreciate stunning gardens and<br />
equally stunning artwork, mark Saturday,<br />
July 23 to Sunday, Aug. 14 on your calendar<br />
for the 19th annual Artful Garden, an<br />
outdoor gallery in Bracebridge that features<br />
the work of over 40 artists. Now in its 19th<br />
year, the Artful Garden as a show has grown<br />
as much as the gardens have.<br />
From sculptures to wall hangings, jewellery<br />
to bird feeders and ironwork to stone<br />
carving, hundreds of handcrafted works of<br />
art work is displayed in the gorgeous gardens<br />
of Jon and Suzann Partridge. This year, the<br />
Artful Garden will also include metal<br />
sculptures by Hilary Clark Cole.<br />
The Artful Garden is open daily from 10<br />
a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, with a kids’ art camp<br />
also running during the show. The camp<br />
uses the setting of the Artful Garden as<br />
inspiration for a variety of mix-media art<br />
projects. The emphasis of the camp is on<br />
the process of creating but children will<br />
enjoy their finished works of art.<br />
For more information, visit<br />
www.theartfulgarden.ca<br />
<strong>Muskoka</strong> Chautauqua presents the 7th<br />
Annual Opera<strong>Muskoka</strong> Festival from<br />
Tuesday, Aug. 23 to Thursday, Aug. 25 at<br />
the Rene Caisse Theatre in Bracebridge.<br />
The festival kicks off with Tchaikovsky’s<br />
Eugene Onegin on Tuesday, Aug. 23 at 7:30<br />
p.m. Bracebridge’s own Daevyd Pepper is<br />
the producer and will be performing the<br />
role of Lensky in the opera. It will be sung<br />
in Russian with English subtitles.<br />
Wednesday, Aug. 24 features a vocal<br />
masterclass with Jennifer Tung from 1-4<br />
p.m. Witness five performers auditioning<br />
and learning from a renowned Royal<br />
Conservatory soprano, teacher and Glenn<br />
Gould Studio vocal coach. Participants will<br />
be auditioning at no charge to appear in<br />
Tung’s evening concert.<br />
At 7:30 p.m. Tung will invite<br />
outstanding local singers who have achieved<br />
a level of excellence in her vocal masterclass<br />
to join her evening concert.<br />
58 UNIQUE MUSKOKA <strong>August</strong> 2016