Music In Communities

For Father’s Day, June 18 we are launching the first of a series of lunchtime matinees at Ross Creek Annex! We are really excited to offer great music in a family-friendly setting. Kids are free, and there will be childcare on site!! Bring your kids, have lunch from the community kitchen and stay for none other than Jim Bryson, possibly the sweetest, Dad-est indie songster in Canada. Benj Rowland shares the bill, coming from Peterborough with songs from his Joel Plaskett-produced album "Community Garden". Kids are free, ages 18 and under!

NOTE: Morning round table is postponed til a later date. Lunch starts at noon.

UPDATE: Lunch will be included in the ticket price! Prepared by the Ross Creek Centre for the Arts' House Chef, Mary Grace. Menu: vegan & gluten-free baked beans, rice and salad; plus fish cakes, bacon, and scrambled eggs.

We’ll have toys and some teenagers to distract your kids downstairs, so if they get squirmy you can still listen to the music. Happy Father's Day! Please RSVP if you want to have lunch with us so we know how much food to make. Email info@musicincommunities.com and pay ahead by e-transfer, or cash or card at the event.

Jim Bryson is a National Folk Award nominated Canadian Singer-Songwriter and Record Maker. He has released a number of recordings in all kinds of popular formats and in places all over the map. His most recent release is 2022’s “Country Wifi”: a hushed pile of beautiful whispers and gently considered lyrical ruminations. In Jim’s former lives, he traveled extensively as a side player for artists such as Kathleen Edwards, The Weakerthans and The Tragically Hip. Jim lives with his partner and children in his old family homestead in the once quaint Stittsville, Ontario.

Where the Bungalows Roam, Jim Bryson : https://youtu.be/yEGjPqX8plI

Benj Rowland makes many left turns while still creating beautiful folk melodies on Community Garden. Whether he backs himself with banjo or accordion, Rowland can be wry in one song and heart-on-sleeve passionate the next. Much like a community garden in the real world, Rowland’s Community Garden is full of characters you won’t interact with on a daily basis but are full of stories you’ve never heard.

Benj Rowland & Joel Plaskett: https://youtu.be/ql0SAhp95H0

Lunch at noon, music starts at 1pm.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts in helping us offer a series of family-friendly events, workshops and round-tables this spring and summer.