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The Deep Roots Music Festival, which ran Sept. 22-24 in Wolfville, returned with a fine blast of music after three years of interruption.
Peter Mowat, who chaired the festival for 13 years, spoke Sept. 24 about the joy this year evoked after three festivals stymied by COVID-19 and post-tropical storm Fiona.
Incoming society chairperson Gerry Davis called this year’s event “very much a success. We had a good turnout and a great lineup.”
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He gave credit to longtime organizers like Mowat, Dave Carmichael, who handles programming, and Lisa Hammett Vaughan for smooth operations and expressed gratitude for a raft of new volunteers this year.
In fact, more than 140 volunteers prepared the 17th edition of the Annapolis Valley event. Festival-goers gathered during great weather for amazing music in venues from a tent in Clock Park to a full Festival Theatre.
Four Acadia University music grads, led by Freya Milliken, second from left, entertain the crowd Sept. 22 at Festival Theatre as part of the Deep Root Music Festival in Wolfville. Wendy Elliott • Special to the Annapolis Valley Register
CBC’s Jeff Douglas hosted the Friday night concert with the David Myles Trio, Kaia Kater, David Celia & Zuffalo, along with Freya Milliken and her band. Myles, a popular troubadour, expressed the joy of all the performers in being back on stage.
Saturday night’s concert was sold-out largely due to headliner Jim Cuddy. Joining him were Jenn Grant, Scott Cook with Pamela Mae, and Valmy. Darrin Harvey hosted two festival concerts.
Garrett Mason was a big attraction in the tent at Clock Park in Wolfville on Sept. 22. Wendy Elliott • Special to the Annapolis Valley Register
Sunday featured the presentation of the Valley Arts Award to Atlantic Theatre Festival founder and Acadia University theatre professor Michael Bawtree. Garrett Mason, Factory Girls, Jamie Junger, and Jacques Surette performed.
Michael Bawtree, the founder of the Atlantic Theatre Festival, was this year’s recipient of the Valley Arts Award. It was presented during the Deep Roots Music Festival in Wolfville. Wayne Walker • Special to the Annapolis Valley Register
There was a free Wolfville Library Patio Concert with Milliken and Kater and free music on Friday afternoon at the Just Us! Festival Tent, located in Clock Park, culminating with the electrifying Mason.
All day on Saturday free programming took place at the tent with arts and crafts, face painting, drumming, the annual Fresh Beats Rhythm Parade with the Wee Giant Theatre puppets, Barlow & Bergen Music Box Theatre, and the ECMA children’s entertainer of the year: Matt the Music Man.
Bruno Allard leads the Djugdjug Ensemble ahead of the Fresh Beats Rhythm Parade in downtown Wolfville Sept. 23 during the Deep Root Music Festival. Wayne Walker • Special to the Annapolis Valley Register
There was a Deep Roots stage at the Wolfville Farmers’ Market on Saturday, featuring The Chimney Swifts, and Barncat, led by Daniel James McFadyen. The Deep Roots Revue took place at Devour! Studios with music supplied by The Sundries and Height Requirement, from country standards to ’80s classics.
The Chimney Swifts perform Saturday, Sept. 23, at the Wolfville Farmers’ Market during Deep Root Music Festival weekend in town. Wendy Elliott • Special to the Annapolis Valley Register
Deep Roots had two Artists@Acadia events this year. Dylan Jewers, of Big Turnip Records and the Helen Creighton Folklore Society, spoke about reviving archived music. He was part of the Acadia School of Music’s Concert Credit afternoons. Sandy Lynn Fisher offered a smudge ceremony and gave a talk Friday afternoon.
Performers at the Rise Up Singing concert celebrate the late Gordon Lightfoot on Sept. 24 and helped raise more than $2,000 for the Wolfville and Area Food Bank. Wendy Elliott • Special to the Annapolis Valley Register
Festivities began with a couple of small gatherings at community venues: a benefit/singalong for the Valley Community Learning Association in Kentville, led by Acadia music graduate Rebecca Fairless, as well as a taping of Zakary Miller’s The Friendly Heckler podcast at the Ross Creek Annex in Canning.
Davis noted attendance numbers were “looking pretty good toward covering our expenses.”
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