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After such a fantastic summer, it's nice to take a moment and look back on all that everyone has done. Click here to watch a series of videos featuring highlights from throughout the season.

Thank you for your support all summer, and we hope you enjoy this look back.

Due to unfortunate weather, the Gros Morne Summer Music special event Splash! has been cancelled for Monday, August 9, 2010.

Splash! will continue at the Glynmill Inn Pond on Tuesday night at 9:15pm!

This Wednesday, August 19, is the last chance to catch Anything Goes: A Tribute to Cole Porter. Wendy Woodland, Mike Payne and Jim Parsons sing the hits with the help of the GMSM Jazz Band. This week's special guest is Yvette Coleman.

This week at GMSM...

Wednesday, August 12
Anything Goes: A Tribute to Cole Porter

Three staples of the Corner Brook theatre scene, Wendy Woodland, Mike Payne and Jim Parsons present a funny, sad and sultry program of your Cole Porter favourites along with the GMSM Jazz Band. Glynmill Inn @ 8pm. This week's special guest is Elizabeth Snow.

Thursday, August 13
Rock Cabaret: 80's Night

Janna Whelan, Greg Gale, Bill Allan, Mark Allan and Paul Lockyear take you back to the age of leg warmers, Reaganomics, big hair and synthesizers. Just a small town girl, livin’ in a lonely world. She took the midnight train goin’ anywhere. Whelan's Gate at 10pm.

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, August 14-16
Sing!

Come join us in song with a community choir initiative that brought many people to tears in 2008. Order of Newfoundland recipient Gary Graham leads a performance of choral favourites and traditional songs from Newfoundland. View the reheasal schedule here. Then, David Maggs and Diederik van Dijk close out the summer in ecstatic style with the music of Beethoven.

GMSM Community Choir is back!

Want to join the artists of GMSM as we close out another successful season? Well now is your chance! Come down to First United Church in Corner Brook and rehearse some of your favourite Newfoundland folk songs with the GMSM Community Choir directed by Gary Graham.All are welcome!

Rehearsals are

Monday August 10th, 6:30 - 7:30

Thursday August 13th, 6:30 - 7: 30

Performance:

Sunday August 16th, 8 pm

Everything takes place at First United Church, Corner Brook

 

This week at GMSM...

Wednesday, August 5
Anything Goes: A Tribute to Cole Porter

Three staples of the Corner Brook theatre scene, Wendy Woodland, Mike Payne and Jim Parsons present a funny, sad and sultry program of your Cole Porter favourites along with the GMSM Jazz Band. Glynmill Inn @ 8pm. This week's special guest is Elaine Clarke.

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, August 7-9
On the Road

Travel has always been a great muse to art. From the Odyssey to Star Trek, journeys remain a fixture of the stories we love to tell. Week 4 features the theme of journey told by music and with music. Elizabeth Janzen and Diederik van Dijk open the concert with a journey through Europe illustrated in music marking time and place. We follow this with music and narration bringing you the classic travel story "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac. National Theatre School graduate and native of Western Newfoundland, Greg Gale brings this favourite to life with the help of a rich musical score from two of Newfoundland's most talented musicians. Louis and Michael McDonald share rich and varied careers as performers and singer/songwriters in styles ranging from reggae to pop, rock, jazz, blues, and traditional.

Friday, August 7 @ 8PM
The Heritage Theatre
Woody Point

Saturday, August 8 @ 8PM
Church of the Good Shepherd
Norris Point

Sunday, August 9 @8PM
First United Church
Corner Brook

 

This week at GMSM...

Wednesday, July 29
Anything Goes: A Tribute to Cole Porter

Three staples of the Corner Brook theatre scene, Wendy Woodland, Mike Payne and Jim Parsons present a funny, sad and sultry program of your Cole Porter favourites along with the GMSM Jazz Band. Glynmill Inn @ 8pm. This week's special guest is Andrew O'Brien.

Thursday, July 30
Rock Cabaret: The Beatles (Reprise)

Janna Whelan, Greg Gale, Bill Allan, Mark Allan and Paul Lockyear reprise their performance of the Beatle's 1969 album Abbey Road, and other Beatle favorites.  Whelan's Gate at 10pm.

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, July 31-August 2
And Now...The Once

St John's folk group "The Once" and New York-based flautist Elizabeth Janzen join us for a weekend of trios. We begin with the eerie and haunting sounds of a trio for flute, cello and piano by American composer George Crumb appropriately titled "Vox Balanae" or Voice of the Whale. Then for the second half you're in the hands of 'The Once'. This three piece traditional trio is rapidly gaining a strong reputation for returning to the roots of the folk sound. All acoustic - guitar, fiddle, bouzouki, mandolin, bodhran and three fine voices bring a sensitive beauty and skilled musicianship to the songs of our ancestors from both sides of the pond. Concerts start at 8pm. Please note: due to venue limitations, Vox Balanae will not be performed in Norris Point. David and Diederik will perform another piece instead.

GMSM gets behind the Food Bank. Following a story in Wednesday's Western Star we learned that the Bay of Islands Ministerial Food Bank is running low on food. Determined to bailout this latest banking crisis, GMSM is offering a special promotion: Bring any non-perishable food item to Sunday Night's concert at First United Church and Gros Morne Summer Music will knock five dollars off the cost of your ticket. The show starts at 8 pm, the headline act is Halifax-based Gypsophilia, known and loved by many Corner Brookers following their triumphant ECMA appearance here last February.

This week at GMSM...

Wednesday, July 22
Anything Goes: A Tribute to Cole Porter

Three staples of the Corner Brook theatre scene, Wendy Woodland, Mike Payne and Jim Parsons present a funny, sad and sultry program of your Cole Porter favourites along with the GMSM Jazz Band.  Glynmill Inn @ 8pm.

Thursday, July 23
Rock Cabaret: The Beatles

Janna Whelan, Greg Gale, Bill Allan, Mark Allan and Paul Lockyear kick off the Rock Cabaret series with a performance of the Beatle's 1969 album Abbey Road, and other Beatle favorites that are sure to make you twist and shout! The Bar Room at 10pm.

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, July 24-26
Gypsies in our Midst

Halifax's six-piece gypsy, jazz, klezmer, funk band Gypsophilia bring us an authentic Gypsy flavour and fuse it with musical traditions from around the world. Diederik van Dijk and David Maggs perform one of Shostakovich's most beloved works, the Sonata for Cello and Piano.  Friday in Woody Point. Saturday in Norris Point. Sunday in Corner Brook.

Our first week is a tribute to our good friend, Rev. John Olsson.

On Friday in Woody Point we present a program of Bach, Beethoven and Cole Porter. The "Three Little Girls" along with Gary Graham and Diederik van Dijk will perform some of the Schmelli Chorales. Diederik and David Maggs will perform Beethoven's Sonata for piano and cello, op. 5 no. 1. Jim Parsons and Mike Payne, with the help of the GMSM Jazz Band, will sing a set of tunes by the Broadway master, Cole Porter.

On Saturday in Norris Point and Sunday in Corner Brook we present a program of Bach and Mendelssohn. Organist Craig Humber will present a number of works by the two masters. The "Three Little Girls" will reprise the Schmelli Chorales and the GMSM Singers will perform a series of Bach chorales.

Friday, July 17 @ 8PM
The Heritage Theatre
Woody Point

Saturday, July 18 @ 8PM
Church of the Good Shepherd
Norris Point

Sunday, July 19 @8PM
First United Church
Corner Brook

 

Join us every Wednesday starting July 15 and ending August 19 for a night of Cole Porter, the Tin Pan Alley genius behind such hits as Anything Goes, I've Got You Under My Skin, So in Love, You're the Top, and Don't Fence Me In.

Gifted performers Wendy Woodland, Mike Payne and Jim Parsons sing his hits with the help of the GMSM Jazz Band.

Anything Goes: A Tribute to Cole Porter

Wednesdays at 8pm
(July 15, 22, 29, August 5, 12, 19)
Glynmill Inn
$20 (tickets at the door)

GMSM is in full gear-up mode with the arrivals of cellist Diederik van Dijk from the Netherlands and Craig Humber from Vienna. By now an absolute favourite amongst audiences, Diederik is returning to GMSM for his third year of concerts, and Craig, a native of John's Beach, Newfoundland, is returning triumphant from a thriving career in Europe's musical capital.

Week 1 features an organ extravaganza. Witness the powerful sounds of this mighty instrument shake the roofs in Norris Point and Corner Brook, July 18 and 19. Due to a lack of organ in Woody Point, GMSM is bringing its Cole Porter show on the road. Hits from this great American song writer brought to you by two fixtures of the musical theatre scene Jim Parsons and Mike Payne and accompanied by a three-piece combo. This concert goes July 17.

The full version of our Cole Porter Show runs every Wednesday starting July 15th until August 19th at the Ballroom of the Glynmill Inn, Corner Brook. Mike, Jim and the band are joined by Newfoundland's own musical theatre star Wendy Woodland. Take a walk down memory lane with such classic hits Anything Goes, I've Got You under my Skin, You're the Top, I Get a Kick out of You, Too Darn Hot and many more.

Get your tickets at the door, grab your favourite seat, kick back and let us whisk you away...