{"id":222549,"date":"2026-05-14T10:25:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/?p=222549"},"modified":"2026-05-14T22:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:35:13","slug":"huntsville-festival-of-the-arts-canadian-since-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/huntsville-festival-of-the-arts-canadian-since-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"Huntsville Festival of the Arts: Canadian since the beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>BY THOMAS FLYNN<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the past few years, the idea of Canadians supporting Canadians has become important in every aspect of life, including the arts. Supporting Canadians isn\u2019t new to the Huntsville Festival of the Arts, which has been dedicated to featuring and sharing the work of Canadian artists since its beginning in 1993. The 2026 summer lineup will be no different, featuring a vast collection of artists from across Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The season gets off to a strong start with Adam Baldwin, a Nova Scotian musician, on stage at Huntsville&#8217;s Algonquin Theatre on July 2nd, bringing his unique blend of folk, rock, and maritime soul. William Prince comes to Huntsville on July 17th. Hailing from Manitoba, Prince won the Western Canadian Music Award for Aboriginal Artist of the Year in 2016 and two Juno Awards for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year, one in 2017 and the other in 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On July 25th, the HfA will host the Canadian singer-songwriter Steven Page, one of the co-founders of the Barenaked Ladies. A Scarborough native, Page was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2018, marking him as a key figure in Canadian Music. Page himself says, \u201cthe greatest of all being the fact that our music continues to be a part of so many Canadians\u2019 lives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2026\/05\/1997-John-McDermott-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-222556\" style=\"width:309px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2026\/05\/B48fkDgO-1997-John-McDermott-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2026\/05\/1997-John-McDermott-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2026\/05\/1997-John-McDermott-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2026\/05\/1997-John-McDermott-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2026\/05\/1997-John-McDermott-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2026\/05\/1997-John-McDermott-288x432.jpg 288w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2026\/05\/1997-John-McDermott-750x1125.jpg 750w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2026\/05\/1997-John-McDermott-630x945.jpg 630w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2026\/05\/1997-John-McDermott.jpg 1164w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">John McDermott in Huntsville in 1977.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>From the start, the Festival has featured many Canadian artists, including Jessie Cook, Natalie MacMaster, and hometown talent Hawksley Workman. To celebrate the opening of the Canadian Summit Center, the HfA brought in Blue Rodeo, followed a few years later by astronaut Colonel Chris Hadfield to perform with Huntsville High School\u2019s Song Project backing him up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rob Saunders, the former General Manager of the HfA, tells the story of when John McDermott was playing in Huntsville and was nowhere to be found 15 minutes before the show. Saunders eventually found McDermott outside, greeting the people of Huntsville who had come to watch. As Sauders puts it, \u201cHe&#8217;s coming up shaking hands, and you know kind of hugging ladies, and they&#8217;re just all a titter, and I kind of go, John, you know any chance we kind of get backstage so we can actually start the show? But that&#8217;s the kind of guy he was.&#8221; Rob fondly remembers the HfA\u2019s speaker series featuring Canadian Heroes such as General Rom\u00e9o Dallaire and astronaut Roberta Bondar.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The interesting difference between now and how the festival started its support of Canadian art is the intentionality. According to Sauders, \u201cI wouldn&#8217;t say the focus was on Canadian artists\u2026 but that was a reality of who you could afford.\u201d Compare this perspective to that of today, where marking something or someone as Canadian is a selling point. At the start of the HfA, Canadian artists were the financial and practical choice. The thought wasn\u2019t about getting Canadian artists because they were Canadian. The thought was to get the artist who was available, and the available artists just happened to be Canadian.&nbsp; \u201cDon&#8217;t get me wrong,\u201d says Saunders, \u201cdon&#8217;t read into this that I&#8217;m saying that we took what we could and it was a lesser thing. We just got focused on what we could afford.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2026\/05\/Rob-Saunders-and-Romeo-Dallaire-1140x540-1-1024x485.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-222551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2026\/05\/Rob-Saunders-and-Romeo-Dallaire-1140x540-1-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2026\/05\/Rob-Saunders-and-Romeo-Dallaire-1140x540-1-1024x485.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2026\/05\/Rob-Saunders-and-Romeo-Dallaire-1140x540-1-768x364.jpg 768w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2026\/05\/djul6r6g-Rob-Saunders-and-Romeo-Dallaire-1140x540-1-630x298.jpg 630w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2026\/05\/Rob-Saunders-and-Romeo-Dallaire-1140x540-1-600x284.jpg 600w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2026\/05\/djul6r6g-Rob-Saunders-and-Romeo-Dallaire-1140x540-1-750x355.jpg 750w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2026\/05\/Rob-Saunders-and-Romeo-Dallaire-1140x540-1.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rob Saunders, Former General Manager of Huntsville Festival of the Arts, with General Rom\u00e9o Dallaire.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2026\/05\/1997-Rob-Saunders-and-Natalie-McMaster-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-222550\" style=\"width:615px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2026\/05\/1997-Rob-Saunders-and-Natalie-McMaster-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2026\/05\/1997-Rob-Saunders-and-Natalie-McMaster-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2026\/05\/1997-Rob-Saunders-and-Natalie-McMaster-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2026\/05\/1997-Rob-Saunders-and-Natalie-McMaster-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2026\/05\/1997-Rob-Saunders-and-Natalie-McMaster-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2026\/05\/1997-Rob-Saunders-and-Natalie-McMaster-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2026\/05\/1997-Rob-Saunders-and-Natalie-McMaster-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2026\/05\/1997-Rob-Saunders-and-Natalie-McMaster-648x432.jpg 648w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2026\/05\/1997-Rob-Saunders-and-Natalie-McMaster-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2026\/05\/1997-Rob-Saunders-and-Natalie-McMaster-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rob Saunders with Natalie MacMaster.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>While booking Canadian acts may have started out as a financial practicality, it has evolved into a central element to HfA\u2019s programming and mandate. Over the past 34 years, the festival has presented the work of thousands of Canadian Artists, celebrated their talents, and introduced them to eager local audiences. Whether they were presented at the Algonquin Theatre, or on the tennis courts of Grandview Resort, as they did in the early 2000s, or at Deerhurst Resort before that, HfA is proud to support Canadian artists and to celebrate this great nation through their music and art.<\/p>\n\n\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler!<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><u>here<\/u><\/a> to receive our email digest with links to our most recent stories.<br \/>\nLocal news in your inbox so you don&#8217;t miss anything!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"background: #5cb85c url('https:\/\/d1iczxrky3cnb2.cloudfront.net\/red_logo.png') no-repeat 37px; color: #fff; text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; display: inline-block; font-size: 16px; padding: 15px 38px; padding-left: 75px; -webkit-border-radius: 2px; -moz-border-radius: 2px; border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0 1px 0 0 #1f5a89; text-shadow: 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);\" href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/support-huntsville-doppler\">Click here to support local news<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY THOMAS FLYNN In the past few years, the idea of Canadians supporting Canadians has become important in every aspect of life, including the arts. 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