About this event
ConcertRobert Burns: A Passion for Freedom Live in the Green Sanderson Hall at Hugh's Room, 296 Broadview Avenue
Show at 8pm, Doors at 7pm
$50+ in advance, $57+ at the door
Featuring RH Thomson, Beau Dixon, Suba Sankaran, Alina Kuzma, Lucas Harris, D Greenberg and Dylan Bell.
On Robbie Burns' birthday (January 25th), the renowned actor RH Thomson and a group of notable Toronto classical, roots and world musicians will celebrate Burns' profound influence on freedom moments around the world.
In a 75-minute show devised by Alison Mackay, well known for her special attractions for Tafelmusik, the seven-member ensemble features stories and songs related to American abolitionist Frederick Douglass, India's Nobel Prize-winning poet Rabindranath Tagore and Ukrainian poet laureate Taras Shevchenko, as well as the songs and poetry of Burns himself.