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The Festival: Opening Reception

Rosemuir Farm 9925 Central Rd, Hornby Island, Canada

Come down to beautiful Rosemuir Farm for the launch of the 2023 Hornby Festival. Elder Barb Whyte (Billy), knowledge keeper and member of the K’ómoks Nation, will open the festival with a traditional Pentlatch Welcome Ceremony. We will introduce you to our Indigenous Artists in Residence who will be working and running workshops at the […]

FREE

The Festival: OKAN (Dance/World/Afro-Cuban)

Rosemuir Farm 9925 Central Rd, Hornby Island, Canada

OKAN follows up on their Juno-nominated and Independent Music Award-winning debut album Sombras, with their 2021 JUNO Award-winning album Espiral, taking the prize for World Music Album of the Year. OKAN, is a women-led ensemble that fuses Afro-Cuban roots with jazz, folk and global rhythms in songs about immigration, courage and love. Blending traditional Cuban music, jazz, […]

Hornby Festival

Hornby Island Community Hall 4305 Central Road, Hornby Island, BC, Canada

WE ARE CELEBRATING 41 YEARS!! 1982-2023 The Hornby Festival is a 10-day annual, multi-genre festival known for its world-class performances. Come enjoy our beautiful community and culturally-rich island on the Salish Sea. More info to come soon! Rosemuir Farm Previously known as the Olsen Farm or simply the farm, is the beautiful setting for our […]

Event Series The Festival: Walk with Elder Voices

The Festival: Walk with Elder Voices

Hornby Island Community Hall 4305 Central Road, Hornby Island, BC, Canada

Walk with Elder Voices features the Residential School Survival Stories of our Artists in Residence: John Amos and Barbara Wells who are from Gold River and also from Mowachaht First Nations Suggested donation minimum $20. 20 maximum people per walk Meet at Hornby Island Community Hall Take this guided forest walk with Elder Barbara Whyte […]

$20

The Festival: Isidore String Quartet

Rosemuir Farm 9925 Central Rd, Hornby Island, Canada

Winners of a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 14th Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2022, the New York City-based Isidore String Quartet was formed with a vision to revisit, rediscover, and reinvigorate the repertoire. The quartet is heavily influenced by the Juilliard String Quartet and the idea of ‘approaching the established as […]

The Festival: KIDS Isidore String Quartet

Rosemuir Farm 9925 Central Rd, Hornby Island, Canada

Not sure you want to bring your kids to a quiet full evening classical performance, but want to expose them to some of this amazing music? Everyone will love this 30-minute/world-class but kid-friendly classical presentation.

The Festival: Live on the Lawn – IAMTHELIVING

Joe King Park 3851 Central Rd, Hornby Island, BC, Canada

Come on down to Hornby Island's own community radio station CHFR (located at Joe King Park) to see a 20-minute performance and interview by each artist/group playing at Rosemuir Farm that night. IAMTHELIVING will be playing there at 11:00AM on August 5th.

FREE

The Festival: Art In Unusual Places – IAMTHELIVING

Sandpiper Beach Community Park Porpoise Cres. & Sandpiper Rd., Hornby Island

Art in unusual places are a collection of FREE mini shows all across Hornby. The 20 minute performances are set up to give you a taste of what you can go see that evening at Rosemuir Farm. Tickets for that nights performances will also be available for purchase. IAMTHELIVING will be playing at Sandpiper Community […]

FREE

The Festival: IAMTHELIVING

Rosemuir Farm 9925 Central Rd, Hornby Island, Canada

Back by overwhelming popular demand, after igniting our stage last year to an enthusiastic, all-ages audience, we are excited for the return of Juno-nominee and two-time Western Canadian music award nominee, recording artist Rian Peters, better known by his stage name IAMTHELIVING. Rian hails from London, United Kingdom but now calls Vancouver, BC his home. […]