Award-winning Canadian singer/songwriter Loreena McKennitt is launching her beloved Under a Winter’s Moon concert in Stratford in December.
The performance features carols and tales that blend Celtic, Indigenous and Welsh cultures along with bits of the natural world shown through an Indigenous lens. It also includes Gemini Award-winning actor Cedric Smith performing A Child’s Christmas in Wales.
McKennitt has called the concert “a love letter to the season,” and she is thrilled to bring it back in 2025.
“I’m delighted that we’ll be able to present this eclectic seasonal performance again. Having performed it off and on for a few years now, some people have been asking if it might become a tradition of sorts,” said McKennitt in a press release. “It’s such a glorious time of the year to draw from different kinds of reflective music and storytelling, past and present. We’re really looking forward to being together again.”
The Stratford show is at Copperlight (formerly Knox Church) on Thursday, Dec. 11 at 7 p.m. Friday’s performance is at London’s Centennial Hall, then it heads to Koerner Hall in Toronto for one performance on Saturday and two on Sunday. Tickets for all five shows are on sale now.
McKennitt will be joined by Caroline Lavelle on cello and recorders and by members of the Celtic group The Bookends, with Errol Fischer on fiddle, Pete Watson on guitar and bouzouki, and Cait Watson on Irish whistle, with guest percussionist Romano DiNillo.
The Stratford-based singer, who was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame last month, first performed Under a Winter’s Moon in December 2021 as a series of live concerts in a historic sanctuary in Stratford. A recording of the concert was released as her 16th album.
