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Early Summer Show at Gallery 121

48 Bridge Street East 48 Bridge Street East, Belleville, Ontario

EARLY SUMMER SHOW – GALLERY 121 – JUNE 3RD TILL JULY 12TH, 2025

Please join the members at Gallery 121 as they present their delightful Early Summer Show. Our Guest Artists are Liz Schell and Carolyn Huff-Winters. Both are award winners in their chosen mediums. Liz’s handmade decorative dolls and tables will brighten the gallery with a colourful pop and sense of nostalgia while Corolyn’s charcoal and mixed media art will intrigue and charm you. The Featured Member Artist, Maureen Swann, will capture your imagination with her found objects sculptures and paintings.
Please join these artists and member artists at our reception being held Saturday June 7th between 2 and 4 p.m. for refreshments.

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Gallery 121 Summer Show

48 Bridge Street East 48 Bridge Street East, Belleville, Ontario

GALLERY 121’S SUMMER SHOW, 2025 – July 15th- August 23rd
RECEPTION JULY 19TH 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.

Our Guest Artist is a talented, award winner and well know leader within the artistic community. Judy Clark creates, teaches and organizes events that highlight her expertise in the rendering of evocative portraits and dazzling landscapes. Judy will be joined by our featured member artist Linda Phipps Nicoll, Members and Volounteer Member Shirley Foster.
Linda’s delightful landscapes and skyscapes are inspired by her interest in the infusion of light, line and colour. Many of her art pieces are created at her cottage where Linda gazes over brilliant waters and bedazzling skies. Her juried works have been viewed in exhibitions throughout the area.
Shirley Foster magical and miniature needlework creations are featured at Gallery 121 as well as local exhibits. Her works has been shown in juried shows and been displayed in workshops she has organized as well as part of an Australian project

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Taverna with Irish Millie

UpFront Cafe – 313 Front Street, Belleville

DON’T MISS this opportunity – Bellville’s only chance to see this unexpected double bill at UpFront Cafe.

Brazil’s #1 Celtic Duo, Taverna – and Peterborough’s teenage fiddling phenom, Irish Millie!

Audiences don’t just listen to Taverna. They fall in love! Irresistable South American musicians, whose passion, camaraderie, and warmth reveal the true Celtic spirit in all of us.

Taverna Duo – Brazil’s premier Celtic duo – features long-time friends and bandmates Gustavo Fofão and Rafael Salobreña. Soul-baring, seafaring, kilt-wearing Celts who just happened to be born in South America. One infuses the music with fingerstyle guitar wizardry and thundering vocals, while using the stage as a percussion instrument. The other is the band’s secret weapon for high energy and dynamics, driving the beat on his “punk rock” bodhran with a wink and a grin.

Playing iconic songs from the Celtic repertoire and powered by rocket fuel, they impact the crowd with high-energy stage dynamics, captivating harmonies, and original arrangements that showcase the incredible mastery each has of their instruments. The final product is a unique party session, bringing audiences of all ages to their feet and singing along.

Taverna are joined for this show by Irish Millie – a phenomenal teenage fiddler from Peterborough, Ontario and 2024 CFMA Performer of the Year Nominee.

Irish Millie recorded her first album – Thirteen – at 13 years old. That project earned her a Canadian Folk Music Award nomination for Young Performer of the Year. Together with her band The Receivers, she was nominated for the same award in 2023 and in 2024 for her EP The Trilogy.

She’s toured across Canada, in the US and Europe – and released her second full-length CD, Grace this spring!

“I love all fiddle music. I am passionate about the East Coast, Bluegrass and Contemporary Trad styles. I love to play fast-paced, fun, and challenging tunes that get the crowd up on their feet. I also love to write my own music.”

Pineapple Productions is pleased and proud to be able to present this rare opportunity to introduce our region to the unexpected pleasures of Taverna along with the pride of Peterborough – teenage fidling phenom – Irish Millie!

PLEASE NOTE: Advance Tickets are available online only until midnight Thursday, August 7. Advance Tickets are not available on the day of the show. At-the-door Tickets – if available – are $30 (cash only).

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