Deep Roots Music Cooperative
466 Main Street, P.O. Box 2360 B4P 1E2 Wolfville, NS, Canada

The January Deep Roots Sing-Along is up and ready. Please sing or play along, record yourself on video, and send the video to our Google Drive: https://driveuploader.com/upload/8I1TzOvx1l/ or email any questions you may have to [email protected] The Sing-Along is Auld Lang Syne with Andy Webster and Kim Barlow... YouTube link: https://youtu.be/4w4EYnAoCDE The cut-off date is Friday, January 29 (5:00PM) and the multi-screen performance will be posted on February 1, 2021.

On Saturday, Jan 23rd, Wolfville lost an icon. Al Whittle managed the Acadia Cinema for almost fifty years, and his dedication to the movie theatre earned him the honor of having the refurbished theatre named after him. On a personal note, Al started his job in Wolfville the same year that I was born, and he was part of many of my childhood memories, as I am sure he was for all my peers. It will be hard to imagine the Town without him. On behalf of Deep Roots and myself..., I would like to express our regrets at his passing. He was a wonderful man and he will be missed. Peter Mowat Chair of Deep Roots Music Cooperative https://www.thechronicleherald.ca//albert-ellsworth-al-wh/

Happy New Year!!

Happy Holidays Everyone !!! Here's the link for the latest Sing-Along: https://youtu.be/hB2LJ1zPVIQ It's the song White Christmas by Irving Berlin... as sung by Daniel James McFadyen He was joined by Ryan Roberts - piano, mandolin Terra Spencer - vocals Dave Carmichael - bass, guitar, percussion, vocals Thank you to Canadian Heritage & the Deep Roots Music Cooperative

Happy Holidays, from Deep Roots Music Cooperative!

Take a moment and listen to Kirsty play this very interesting instrument called the Nyckelharpa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNiNNNlUHcY&authuser=0

Deep Roots COVID programming continues !!! Deep Roots announces the Residency Project and will continue the Sing-Alongs. Thanks in large part to our Federal Government’s department of Canadian Heritage, specifically the Building Communities through Arts and Heritage (BCAH) program, we were able to pivot and create online programming, after having to cancel the 2020 edition of the Deep Roots Music Festival. ... A series of Deep Roots COVID Concerts was presented online, bi-weekly from May through September, as well as a popular Sing-Along, where our audience was invited to sing along with chosen artists by submitting videos. People are invited to view any or all of the COVID Concerts series over nine hours of programming as well as a Deep Roots Retrospective of festival memories, the presentation of the 17th annual Valley Arts Award to Fred and Nancy Chipman, and the edited Sing-Alongs. All material can be found on our YouTube Channel: Deep Roots Music Videos, Deep Roots Music Videos The Deep Roots Music Cooperative is pleased to announce that through further funding from BCAH, the COVID-19 Emergency Support Fund for Cultural Heritage and Sport Organizations, we will continue online programming. The Deep Roots Residency is our second COVID series. The residency is an agreement with 10 artists to take 5 days and write a song or a tune specifically related to their pandemic experience thus far, giving insight into their thoughts and process during this strange time. They will record their daily progress with video, and play a short set at the end of their residency. A compilation video will be created for each residency, by Deep Roots program director Dave Carmichael, and these videos will be presented on the Deep Roots Music Videos You Tube channel from November through March, 2021. The first will be Kirsty Money, a renowned violinist with Symphony Nova Scotia, and enthusiast and budding player of the nyckelharpa - a traditional Swedish musical instrument. Kirsty has chosen to write nyckelharpa variations on an Indigenous melody from the Wolastoqiyik nation, The River Song. The Maliseet called it the Wolastoq, meaning bountiful and good, and seek to restore this name to the river now known as Saint John River (Bay of Fundy).