SAULT STE MARIE 2 Northern Troubadours in Concert at Ermatinger Clergue National Historic Site

Name: SAULT STE MARIE 2 Northern Troubadours in Concert at Ermatinger Clergue National Historic Site
Start: 2025-10-02T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-02T22:00:00-04:00
Location: Ermatinger Clergue National Historic Site

Schedule

Thu Oct 02 2025 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Ermatinger Clergue National Historic Site | Sault Ste. Marie, ON

Singer-Songwriters Will Gillespie and Brian Tremblay are teaming up and hitting the road on tour across Northern Ontario during Ontario Culture Days in October 2025 to perform songs from their respective concept Folk albums:
"MINE! True Stories and Legends of the Porcupine Gold Rush"
(Will Gillespie)
https://willgillespie.bandcamp.com/album/mine-true-stories-and-legends-of-the-porcupine-gold-rush
&
"In the Tracks of the Black Bear"
(Brian Tremblay)
https://briantmusic.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-tracks-of-the-black-bear
Wednesday, October 1st - BRUCE MINES
Bruce Mines United Church
(Presented by the Bruce Mines & District Museum
and the Bruce Mines Historical Society)
18 Williams, Bruce Mines, ON
7:00pm-10:00pm
Thursday, October 2nd - SAULT STE. MARIE
Ertaminger Clergue
National Historic Site
800 Bay Street
Sault Ste. Marie, ON
7:00-10:00pm
Friday, October 3rd - BLIND RIVER
Timber Village Museum
1 Hagger Road, Blind River, ON
7:00-10:00pm

Saturday, October 4th - SUDBURY
Knox Hall
73 Larch Street
Sudbury, ON
7:00-10:00pm
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/will-gillespie-brian-tremblay-2-northern-troubadours-live-at-knox-hall-tickets-1434788393709
**Sunday, October 5th - CAPREOL**
Northern Ontario Railroad Museum
and Heritage Centre * at the Heritage Centre* (Old Firehall)
26 Bloor Street
Capreol, ON
1:00pm-3:00pm
Special EXPRESS Matinee
Sunday, October 5 - WEST NIPISSING
Shuswap on the Nipissing Camp
349 Shuswap Rd
Noelville, ON
7:00pm-10:00pm
Tuesday, October 7 - NORTH BAY
North Bay Museum
100 Ferguson Street
North Bay, ON
7:00pm-10:00pm
Wednesday, October 8 - TEMISKAMING SHORES
Temiskaming Art Gallery
325 Farr Drive
Haileybury, ON
7:00pm-10:00pm
Thursday, October 9 - KIRKLAND LAKE
Museum of Northern History at the Sir Harry Oakes Chateau
2 Chateau Drive
Kirkland Lake, ON
7:00pm-10:00pm
Friday, October 10 - ELK LAKE
Royal Canadian Legion
Montreal River Branch 310
175 Pine Street
Elk Lake, ON
7:00pm-10:00pm
(Presented by the Elk Lake Heritage Museum,
& the Jack Munroe Historical Society of Elk Lake)
Saturday, October 11th - TIMMINS
Timmins Museum
National Exhibition Centre
325 Second Avenue
Timmins, ON
7:00pm-10:00pm
Will Gillespie & Brian Tremblay: 2 Northern Troubadours - in Concert on Tour - is Brand-New Old-Time Music. A concert of new songs in old styles, telling stories in song, from different chapters in the history of Northern Ontario.
Singer-Songwriter Will Gillespie performs songs from his original Northern Ontario History-themed concept album and song-cycle : "MINE! True Stories and Legends of the Porcupine Gold Rush" Performing it as a kind of Campfire Cabaret, taking the audience on a musical journey back in time to a lost world of prospectors, pioneers, bootlegger-bandits, high-graders, dogsledders and moonshiners... written in historical styles from Bluegrass to Ragtime to Concert Hall, Hot Jazz, Barrelhouse Blues, Waltzes and MORE!! Featuring projected backdrops of original Northern Ontario landscape paintings by visual Artist Susan Robinson and historical photos from the collection at the Timmins Museum National Exhibition Centre of the real people, places and events Will will be singing about.
Opening the show is Folk, Blues and Country Troubadour Brian Tremblay, performing songs from his own Northern Ontario history concept album: "In the Tracks of the Black Bear" about the Algoma Rail line with Lynn Eckroth singing with him.
Brian's father worked for the Algoma Central Railway before and after the war. His uncles and cousins also worked for the railway. His siblings were born in Northern Ontario rail towns like Hawk Junction and Chapleau. Trains run in the Tremblay family blood. Tremblay has written new songs inspired by the ACR, combined with traditional railroad songs that so many will sing along with. In the Tracks of the Black Bear celebrates the Algoma Central Railway, the people who built it and the people who worked on it.
This tour is made possible thanks to the support of the Ontario Arts Council
#ArtsAddValue
www.willgillespie.ca
www.briantmusic.com
https://www.willgillespie.ca/2-northern-troubadours