Stratford Summer Music Festival

[1] His current focus is on bringing live music to the Stratford community and surrounding area, and on finding different ways to present performances.

[2] Stratford Summer Music was founded by pianist Peter Elyakim Taussig, the first residing artistic director.

Performances have been given by Chor Leoni Men's Choir, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, l'Orchestre de la Francophone Canadienne, the National Youth Orchestra, the Phil Nimmons Jazz Quartet, the St. Lawrence String Quartet, the Vancouver Bach Choir, Measha Brueggergosman, James Ehnes, Ronnie Hawkins, David Jalbert, Jean-Pierre Leguay, and Ashley MacIsaac, among others.

The goal of this installation was to show young people that music was fun, and encouraged visitors to play percussion instruments, including a large drum made from the trunk of a hollowed-out tree, a labyrinth of gongs, and a dinosaur made out of musical instruments for the kids to explore.

A custom built balloon - seven metres in diameter, using detailed NASA imagery was suspended on Tom Patterson island under which many concerts and events took place during the duration of the festival.

Artists performing on The Stratford Belle.
Artists perform for an excited group under the Museum of the Moon installation on Tom Patterson Island.