Celina Marie

We are pleased to announce that Toronto based musician RAHA JAVANFAR  will be hosting the Toronto Fiddle Collective on MAY 21 2020. Starting with a blues fiddle workshop at 7pm focusing on blues licks and the 12 bar blues, followed a concert at 8pm, then jam until 930pm. All ages, levels and folk instruments welcome. The ZOOM LINK will be sent just before the concert. Participants/viewers should make sure they can access ZOOM on their device. You may need to download the app if you are on a phone or tablet.

Online Tickets are $35 for entire evening or $20 for workshop or concert only. We hope to see you online. For advanced tickets, email fiddleshow@gmail.com.

BIO:

A musician, designer, and theatre performer, Raha Javanfar is a multi-faceted artist. She performs with various bands as a violinist, bass player, singer, and songwriter. She is the front woman for Bad Luck Woman & Her Misfortunes, a Maple Blues nominated blues/R&B/rock’n’roll band. Raha recently hosted the 23rd annual Maple Blues Awards at Koerner Hall, and performed as part of the Women’s Blues Revue at Roy Thomson Hall. She regularly performs with the Double Cuts (Western Swing), Runaway Twain (Shania Twain cover band), Zuze (Afro-fun Iranian folk band) and other Toronto-based bands. She can also be seen on stage and as Assistant Musical Director at Soulpepper Theatre as part of their concert series (88 Keys, Promised Land, Riverboat). Raha has designed lights and/or projections for theatre, concerts, opera, and dance, and toured internationally as projections designer. She's been nominated for a Dora award as a playwright, received the Siminovitch Protege award as a lighting designer, and currently teaches lighting design at Ryerson University.

The Toronto Fiddle Collective (TFC) is a community gathering run by local fiddler and teacher Celina Marie. She started the monthly gathering in 2014 as a means for her students to play tunes together as well as learn from and see intimate concerts by other professional fiddlers from all over the world. Now 5 years later, fiddlers and folkies from all over southern Ontario join in on the fun. 

Fiddlers and folk musicians of all ages and levels come together on the 3rd Thursday of every month for various fiddle focused events. TFC hosts a new special guest professional musician to run/lead workshops, kitchen parties, jam sessions, concerts, dances and more. To keep up to date with TFC, simply email fiddleshow@gmail.com and you will be added to the monthly e-news email list.

Tickets are always sold at the door or, for special events, in advance email fiddleshow@gmail.com