Weaving words and music, local storyteller Rachel Dunstan Muller and violinist Nicholas Ross travel across five centuries to bring some of the violin’s most extraordinary stories to life. This is history like you’ve never heard it: a folk tune caught on the wind of a lonely Irish island, a heroic string quartet in a city under siege, the brilliant solos of one of the world’s most unlikely virtuosas – and more. Join us for an event that celebrates the power of music and the indomitability of the human spirit.
Rachel Dunstan Muller
Rachel is an active member of Nanaimo's Around Town Tellers, a past participant of Canadian Children's Book Week, and a Canada Council of the Arts grant recipient. She’s told stories on the east coast and the west coast, in kindergarten classes and retirement homes, bars and churches, living rooms and theatres, a decommissioned milking parlour, and a city council chamber. A published author, she spends as much time as she can exploring the wild spaces around her Vancouver Island home when she’s not writing or performing.
Nicholas Ross
Originally from Ottawa, Nicholas is an instructor of both trumpet and violin at the Nanaimo Conservatory of Music. He performs regularly with the Vancouver Island Symphony and maintains a busy teaching schedule. As an orchestral performer, he has extensive professional experience with the Victoria Symphony, Thunder Bay Symphony, Sudbury Symphony, and North Bay Symphony. He has also appeared with the Silver Birch String Quartet and was featured as a soloist with the Elmer Iseler Singers.
Review
"A warm, passionate storyteller, Rachel shares her own exquisite wonder tales, weaving history, myth and magic into spellbinding tellings. Do yourself a great big favour and sit and listen to Rachel, anywhere, any time." - Mary Murphy
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