NLFB 49.5 TO KICK START FALL AT BELL PARK WITH DAN MANGAN, JEREMY DUTCHER, AND MORE

Just went we thought the season of live music was coming to an end Northern Lights Festival Boreal is here to save the day. Typically NLFB weekend is thought of as the beginning of summer, this year they’re squeezing in one last party at the park for NLFB 49.5 September 10th-11^th. They’ll have all the usual festival favorites you’ve been missing out on like food, merch, and vendors to check out over the weekend. As always NLFB has an amazing lineup of music for us including headliners Dan Mangan, Jeremy Dutcher, Tanika Charles and, Old Man Luedecke. Additional performers include; Dany Laj and the Looks, Cindy Diore, Reney Ray, Frank Deresti & the Lake Effect, and OKAN. Grab your tickets while they’re hot at www.nlfb.ca

NLFB will be strictly adhering to current COVID-19 guidelines in order to provide the safest event possible. NLFB is working together with Public Health Sudbury & Districts to ensure all current guidelines are being followed, with some added measures in place. All ticket holders, staff/crew, artists, etc. will be required to provide proof of full vaccination, except in the case of a medical exemption. Additional, important information and details on these policies and protocols can be found at nlfb.ca/covid-19/. 

Friday, September 10^th

Dan Mangan

Mangan is a two-time JUNO award-winning & two-time Polaris Music Prize-listed musician and songwriter. 2018 brought Dan’s 5th full-length “More or Less,” an album about witnessing birth, and in some ways rebirth. 2020 brought the record “Thief” a diverse collection of covers that have been released sporadically over the years. 

Aside from his own recordings, Dan has scored a feature film (as well as TV series for Netflix & AMC and has infrequently been a contributing writer for several international publications. Dan has toured extensively in North America, Europe, and Australia. In 2017, Mangan co-founded Side Door, an alternative concert booking start-up, which pivoted to host live-stream concerts and has held regular events for thousands of viewers throughout the pandemic.

Starting off the night is local pop-rock outfit Dany Laj and the Looks. Their new album Ten Easy Pieces was just released June 2021 and they’re ready to give these new tunes a try! Cindy Diore is a francophone artist with a moody, soulful style. She will have you swaying your seat in no time. Opening for Mangan is Tanika Charles, one of Canada’s stars of soul. Based in Toronto, Charles, has amazingly rich vocals and funk that will have Sudburians talking.

Saturday, September 11^th

Jeremy Dutcher

Performer, composer, activist, musicologist — these roles are all infused into his art and way of life. A member of Tobique First Nation in New Brunswick, Jeremy first did music studies in Halifax before taking a chance to work in the archives at the Canadian Museum of History, painstakingly transcribing Wolastoq songs from 1907 wax cylinders. “Many of the songs I’d never heard before because our musical tradition on the East Coast was suppressed by the Canadian Government’s Indian Act.” The results were “collaborative” compositions like nothing you’ve ever heard, collected together on his debut LP Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa (awarded the 2018 Polaris Music Prize). “I’m doing this work because there are only about a hundred Wolastoqey speakers left,” he says. “It’s crucial for us to make sure that we’re using our language and passing it on to the next generation. If you lose the language, you’re not just losing words, you’re losing an entire way of seeing and experiencing the world from a distinctly indigenous perspective.”

To start off the Saturday night of the festival there is Reney Ray, a francophone country-infused pop-folk artist. A talented multi-instrumentalist as well as a singer-songwriter, Ray hails from the small village of Val-Rita near Kapuskasing. Frank Deresti & the Lake Effect are up next, a Sault Ste. Marie folk-pop-jazz outfit. Next up is OKAN, fusing Afro-Cuban roots with jazz, folk, and global rhythms. This group just took home a 2021 JUNO for their second album Espiral. Opening for Dutcher is Old Man Luedecke, some festival die-hards may remember him from the 2008 festival where he was very well received. His songwriting and storytelling will have you entranced as he weaves tales of life across Canada with his banjo.