Best of Boxwood 2024 in Tatamagouche

Each year, a new roster of musicians are featured in the Best of Boxwood concert tour, with performances across Nova Scotia part of Musique Royale’s Summer Festival. This tour celebrates the energetic, traditional dance music of Maritimes Canada, Scotland, Ireland and more. Taking place annually in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, the Boxwood Festival is renowned for its inspiring, multi-generational environment of workshops and concerts centered around traditional music and early music, with experts and amateurs providing an immersive artistic experience. The Best of Boxwood tour showcases the fruits of these collaborations across Nova Scotia.

This summer, performances take place at historic venues in Yarmouth, Margaretsville, Shelburne, Blandford, Iona and Tatamagouche. Led by Chris Norman, Boxwood Festival's founder and equally a world renowned master of the wooden flute, the tour also features one of the greatest Irish fiddlers alive today, James Kelly, the dazzling percussive dancer Nic Gareiss, the much loved Irish singer songwriter Eamon O'Leary, and Janelle Lucyk, a baroque soprano.