Uxbridge Celebration of the Arts Lunch Hour Concerts

The Lunch Hour Concerts during every year's Uxbridge Celebration of the Arts has been happening ever since I can remember. I started going because I found it to be a very enjoyable distraction from my normal Saturday and it really did not take too much time out of my day.

And the tradition continues during this 25th Anniversary year.

Every Saturday from 12:30 - 1:30, performing artists are invited entertain the audience with songs, dances, drum beats, big band sounds, piano playing and more. This years performances are September 18th, September 25th and October 2nd held in the sanctuary of St. Andrews Chalmers Presbyterian Church on Toronto/Church Strs in Uxbridge.

For the first Saturday Lunch Hour concert is themed "World Music Hour" and featuring the sounds of the Shimoda Family on Japanese recorders as well as Susan Luke on her fiddle and she had invited some surprise guests to play with her.

If you have not had the chance to hear the haunting sounds of the wooden Japanese recorder, this is your chance. The Shimoda Family have performed during a Uxbridge Music Scholarship night as well as at the Foster Memorial. It is amazing to hear the different sounds of the multiple sized recorders - when I heard them, they played a wooden recorder that was 8ft tall and one that was 6 inches. AMAZING.

The second half of the Lunch Hour Concert will be listening to the toe tapping music of Susan Luke and friends on their fiddles. Susan is well known in Uxbridge as one half of the group Poor Tom, and she teaches not only in the public school system, but also teaches privately on the violin and fiddle. East coast here we come.

Please do come out and the cost for the hour is "free will offering" - whatever you can afford. An appreciative audience is what we want and need.