Ontario Festival of Small Halls: Miss Emily, Blue Skies Fiddle Orchestra

Event Description

Miss Emily

Prince Edward County, Canada-born Miss Emily specializes in overcoming insurmountable challenges and scaling metaphorical mountains. Her work ethic was forged in the foundries of Southern Ontario’s bars and nightclubs. Her resilience is a product of 20 years in an industry that can be, at best, ”unfriendly” towards women. She has an innovative spirit and creative force born out of necessity, and her incomparable vocals are surpassed only by her electrifying, roof-rattling performances.

What’s next for Miss Emily? The future is still being written but with a third ‘Female Vocalist of the Year’ Canadian Blues Award added this year, a 2021 JUNO nomination for Blues Album of the Year and more performances scheduled for 2024 in Canada, the USA, the UK and Europe, it’s safe to say that sooner than anyone can predict, the world will shine a bright, white spotlight on the Soul-Blues-Americana dynamo known as Miss Emily. It’s only a matter of time.

Blue Skies Fiddle Orchestra

“The Blue Skies Community Fiddle Orchestra” is an all ages from 8 to 88 amateur community fiddle orchestra. The Orchestra is sponsored by Blue Skies in the Community, the non-profit charitable arm of the Blue Skies Music Festival. The Orchestra was created and inspired in 2000 by Carolyn Stewart, to foster fiddle traditions in the communities of Frontenac and Lanark Counties. The Orchestra for the past 12 years has been led by Cindy McCall. This group provides musical instruction, adventures, performance opportunities and special events for our community.