Event Info
Friday Night Lights at the Museum
Listen to live music, explore the galleries, make festive creations + more.
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Free
Event Description
Friday Night Lights at the Museum
97 Thomas Street East, Napanee ON
Nov 29, Dec 6 & 13
at 5:00PM
- 8:00PM
The Museums of Lennox and Addington invites you to be their guest over the holidays and needs your help to celebrate Friday Night Lights!
Enter the Museum for free where you can listen to live music, explore the galleries, make festive creations with local artists in our Creation Corner, and enjoy the decorated courtyard. Plus, shop the Museum Gift Shop, which will include an exclusive Museum Kids Holiday Shop where youngsters can independently shop for gifts that are $2 or less, as well as get their gifts specially wrapped! Oh, and if you’re looking for more holiday shopping, the Creation Corner may also include a few extra holiday gifts for purchase from the artists themselves and on the final Friday Night Lights on December 13th, catch a horse-drawn wagon to Napanee’s Downtown Shopping Party (available only on December 13th from 5:30-7:30pm).
Before or after your Museum exploration, enjoy an exclusive and immersive candlelight play at Macpherson House for $10 (see details here)!
Dates:
Friday, November 29
Friday, December 6
Friday, December 13
Time: 5:00-8:00pm, with the Creation Corner open with drop-in local artists from 5:30-6:30pm and musicians starting at 7:00pm
Everyone welcome!
No registration required.
Artists in the Creation Corner @ the Museum (5:30-6:30pm each night):
Friday, November 29th: Pine Cone Snow Owls with Laura Moses of Fine Lines Landscape and Designs
Create your very own adorable Pine Cone Snow Owls! Perfect for all ages, this hands-on workshop allows families to get creative together as they turn pine cones into charming winter owls. All materials will be provided, so you just need to bring your imagination and holiday spirit!
Laura Moses is a double-certified horticulturist and the owner of Fine Lines Landscape and Designs, an Aboriginal woman-owned landscaping company that combines environmental conscientiousness with high-end design. With over 18 years of experience, Laura’s expertise spans landscape design, installation, and maintenance, specializing in medicinal plants, native perennials, and fruit trees. She also runs a wide array of workshops in the Eastern Ontario region, including terrarium and moss art, offering participants hands-on, nature-inspired experiences. In 2024, she founded The Woodland Awakenings, a women’s retreat organization dedicated to fostering connection with nature through silvotherapy, meditation, art, and plant medicines.
Musicians @ the Museum (Live at 7-8pm each night):
Friday, November 29th: Midwinter in the Prairies – 19th Century songs and stories of the season (Ian Bell and Teilhard Frost)
In Upper Canada “the bleak midwinter” was often in fact, the party season. There was less to do on the farm, and frozen roads made it easier to get around to visit friends and neighbours. When they did, there was sure to be singing, and if there was fiddle handy – some dancing as well. Teilhard Frost and Ian Bell are a two-person folk festival, bringing this old music alive with singing, storytelling, and a baffling array of instruments including fiddle, concertina, banjo, harmonica, jaw harp, guitar, bones and button accordion.
Ian Bell has performed across Canada and in the United States since the late 1970s on his own and with a number of groups, he has appeared at numerous folk festivals across Canada and abroad, and for many years was a regular musical contributor on Stuart McLean’s Vinyl Café, as well as on Fresh Air and other CBC radio programs. Accompanying himself on guitar, concertina, banjo and button accordion, Ian performs both Canadian traditional music and his own songs and instrumental compositions. He’s also well known as a great storyteller. Following the release of three CDs of original material, Ian has returned with two recordings of traditional songs and tunes – My Pious Friends & Drunken Companions and his latest, Forget Me Not When Far Away – a collection of songs of the Great Lakes.
Teilhard Frost is a multi-instrumentalist, specializing in traditional fiddle tunes, with a particular interest in the Appalachian Mountains. He has spent the last eighteen years touring with critically acclaimed band Sheesham, Lotus and ‘Son. This trio is currently working with Hezekiah Proctor and the Hash House Serenaders. In 2018, Teilhard joined forces with musician and engineer Jason Mercer. Together they have created award winning soundtracks for film and advertising. Teilhard’s latest album is ‘Four and Twenty Blackbirds Dancing on a Deer Skin’, an album of traditional fiddle and banjo tunes, harmonica bits and ballads.
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