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A big THANK YOU to the following people for their generous donations to our
Definitely Not the Nutcracker campaign!

Anonymous
Sandra Anderson
Terry Bryk
Ann Elizabeth Carson
Alistair and Margaret Cunningham
Vittoria, Marie and Matteo Cera
Kirk Dale
Al Forest
Fred and Ursula Franklin
Ian & Hannah Gay
Harry Lane
Kathleen McMorrow
Christopher Palin
Ruth Pincoe
John Wall

'What do a hurdy gurdy, a bass clarinet, a set of bagpipes, and Norwegian lyrics add up to? A rocking good time is the answer.'

Audience member's blog, Middleton, NS

Ensemble Polaris is a unique group founded to explore the 'idea of North' in music. Group members are expert performers from a variety of musical traditions and backgrounds. The resulting music has an eclectic palette of musical influences, colours, and techniques - early, folk, Klezmer, Hot Club of Paris, middle Eastern and southeast Asian, traditional Scandinavian, Celtic, Cape Breton, eastern European, classical, improvisatory, and avant-garde. It defies classification!

Ensemble Polaris

Kirk Elliott, accordion, harp, bagpipes, violin, psaltery, etc.; Ben Grossman, hurdy gurdy; Jeff Wilson, percussion, saw; Alison Melville, flutes, recorders, seljefløyte; Colin Savage, clarinet, bass clarinet, recorders; Debashis Sinha, percussion; Marco Cera, guitar; Margaret Gay, 'cello; Katherine Hill, voice, violin, nyckelharpa.

Photo Credit: Paul Orenstein