Harrison Festival of the Arts
Harrison Festival Society
World Music & Art. Small Town Roots.
The 45th Annual Harrison Festival of the Arts is coming July 12th-21st, 2024
Our Festival Lineup Full of International Flare!
An Artist for Every Audience. Here’s a taste of who’s coming to Town! Click here for the Festival full artist lineup for the free Beach Stage and ticketed Hall Performances!
Our Season of Performing Arts
From World Stage to Local Artists, there’s something for everyone during our Season of the Performing Arts!
For 35 years, the Harrison Festival Society has presented a lively Season of Performing Arts between September and May. The Season consists of eight to ten shows featuring local, national and international performers at the Harrison Memorial Hall in our beautiful lakeside community.
More artists will be added in time!
Did Someone Say Sponsorship?
Learn how we can partner in bringing the arts to Harrison.
With world-class music and art like this of course we need Sponsors. Every donation we receive helps us put on a great show! We also want to spread the word about Music & Art as we support the next Gen of artists. We value all levels of sponsorship, from the spare change you have in your back pocket, to our higher levels of community sponsors. The Harrison Festival of the Arts thanks all of its partners and the community of Harrison, for letting us take over your beautiful village as we bring the best international Art & Music to your tranquil river shores!
A big bucketful of thanks to all our sponsors and community partners. You ARE the Fest! You help bring the best of the arts to BC!
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Recent Posts
Locarno
Locarno is the Latin project of JUNO Award winning musician, Tom Landa. Like him, the music is equal parts Mexican and Canadian. Tom was born and raised in Mexico City, and moved to Canada in his teens. In the mid nineties he formed the Folk Roots band, The Paperboys, who have been touring world-wide for over 20 years. Tom has always dabbled in Latin music, and in 2005 decided to immerse himself more into genre, and started working on material for an album. In 2006 he was awarded a Canada Council Grant to study traditional Mexican Music in Veracruz, Mexico. Tom spent his days learning the jarana (an 8 string guitar), and learning songs from the Son Jarocho repertoire. Upon his return to Canada, Tom started working on what would be Locarno’s debut CD.
The North Shore Celtic Ensemble
The North Shore Celtic Ensemble has a dual mandate: to inspire youth to do more and go further with music, and to use music to build and strengthen community connections. What started in 1998 with a Celtic focus is now a spirited, no-boundaries exploration of various styles that inspire the group’s players. The result is a full-spectrum music experience that defies labels and spans conventional genres. Original compositions draw on Celtic, classical, jazz and folk influences, and are blended with creative arrangements of more traditional Celtic tunes. The North Shore Celtic Ensemble have released seven CDs, and has toured across North America, Europe, and China, performed regularly for local concerts and festivals, and has supported a number of charitable programs through their Community Concert Series. More than just a performing group, the North Shore Celtic Ensemble is a meeting place for youth to explore and share music, and is led by fiddler Gabriel Dubreuil (Early Spirit, Collage Trad).
Empanades Ilegales
Their style is heavily influenced by the Latin music genres of cumbia and, increasingly, salsa. The band’s incorporation of dissonant tones, eerie atmospherics, and haunting guitar leads are stylistic signifiers of their ‘spooky’ undertone that blends into their psychedelic sound. I begin our interview by asking about a recurring ad-lib that shows up in their performances.”
Kitty & the Rooster
Take the name Kitty and the Rooster, and combine it with the fact guitarist Noah Walker and drummer Jodie Ponto wear chicken and cat masks in their promo shots, and one might expect a barnyard version of Slipknot. Wrong. Because those things can be sweaty under stage lights, the masks tend to come off quickly as the duo unleashes a retro-spectacular sound that slots in nicely with Southern Culture on the Skids, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, and the Reverend Horton Heat.