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Canadian Folk Music Award nominees The Bombadils bring together bluegrass, Celtic, and contemporary folk music with front-porch style and classical grace.

Canadian arts journalist Bob Mersereau describes their music as "folk tunes done with musical adventure and sophistication" and Elmore Magazine calls it "an enchanting folk romp." The Bombadils met in 2009 while studying music at McGill University in Montreal, Québec. In the years to follow, they began recording and touring throughout Canada, and internationally. Tour highlights include Koerner Ha

ll in Toronto, ON, Tivoli Gardens in Denmark, and Wintergrass music festival outside Seattle, WA. In 2015 they released full-length album, "Grassy Roads, Wandering Feet," quickly followed by "New Shoes" in 2016 which was nominated for two Canadian Folk Music Awards and won Folk Music Ontario's Album of the Year award.

03/09/2026

I sang this song at grade 12 grad with some friends, as an Edmonton kid in love with music from Atlantic Canada. I never expected that the next time I'd sing it would be 19 years later, as a Haligonian, at a rally protesting arts budget cuts (and so many more cuts that affect important community programs). 💔 It was beautiful to hear everyone sing together - let's keep going! Come to the rally at Province House tomorrow, March 10th, at noon. If you haven't yet, please write your MLA, especially if you're in a PC district, and invite your neighbours to as well! NS Arts Coalition website has helpful guidance if needed.

🎶 "We Rise Again," written by Leon Dubinsky, recorded by the Rankin Family.

🎹 Terra Spencer and 🎤 Stewart Legere - it was a privilege to be up there with you!

Thank you 🎥 Sean MacGillivray for this video and for being an awesome sound tech amidst the chaos.

All my love to Luke Fraser - who was holding down the fort and doing essential childcare activism, making sure the wee one could have a quiet place to nap while I went and sang some high notes. 💕

10/25/2025

Whoa, we published this ad just over a week ago and we're blown away by the response! We might be slightly buried in envelopes right now, 😅 but I must say we're very much in awe that so many people will soon have a fresh CD or two showing up in their mailbox. We're really enjoying making the cute doodles with sea glass too. It's a great feeling to combine old communication with new...connecting first online and then with old-fashioned snail mail. Thank you all for this sweet bit of connection, and most of all, we're really excited for you to hear the music! We tried our best to make something from the heart. 💓

08/29/2025

Eleven years! 💓 The table is a bit messier now. Feet definitely more tired. Hearts even more full. And we still have the bunting Sarah Jane Scouten hung up before she sang for us:

"Lover, tell me, if you're able
Who's gonna lay the wedding table?
Times being what they are
Dark and getting darker all the time

Lover, when I sing my song
All the trees gonna sing along
And they're gonna bend their branches down
To lay their fruit upon the ground
The almond and the apple
And the sugar from the maple
The trees gonna lay the wedding table"

-From "Wedding Song" by Anais Mitchell

07/28/2025

Hello friends, it's been a while! We've spent the last few months in a newborn cocoon with baby brother Cedric, who was born when the crocuses were in bloom. He's been showered with love, especially by middle child Celeste the toddler tornado and super sis Miss Fliss. It's been intense and busy but we've had amazing support and we're grateful to be in it together. As demanding and overwhelming as those early newborn weeks are, there's nothing quite like feeling the rose petal softness of a fresh babe, so new on this planet, so fragile, so dependent, so trusting, so open, so forgiving, and so mysterious. Who are you, little bud? Everyday you blossom and we learn a bit more about you and we are constantly amazed. Cedric's signature trait is that smiling is his default. These big sunny smiles that reach down to his toes! It's like he knows he's the one to make us outnumbered as parents, and to keep us going, he lights up the room with starburst smiles.

It's hard to believe it's been over 3 months already, but the crocuses have long made way for the daffodils, dandelions, raging rhododendron, mint, and feverfew. This year the backyard cherry tree even decided to treat us to a bowl full of cherries.
All this against the backdrop of upsetting world news that seems impossibly harsh compared to the sweet and gentle being of little ones. We're treasuring the gentleness. 💓

That's our update! We look forward to sharing the music we've been making, soon. Yep, music stays close through thick and thin, we can't shake it! For now, a sleepy newborn-phase 2 AM poem:

Cedric
When you fall asleep, you smile
Are you having visions of angels?

When you wake up, you smile
You are our vision of heaven, our angel

Cedric, your name means
Beloved, or gift of splendor

Truly you are our little gift
Our beloved

You came on the heels of your sister
Waiting in the wings
Just a breath and you were born

The angels sent you
To smile at us
Day and night

Reminding us
That it is good to be alive

04/10/2025

Sisters. 💕 And little C discovering sand for the first time!

04/09/2025

April 9th, snowy Halifax ❄️

01/17/2025

Tonight is opening night for Controlled Damage at Neptune Theatre! I (Sarah) am honoured to contribute some fiddle sounds to this beautifully written play by Andrea Scott. 🎻 It's the story of Viola Desmond - businesswoman, teacher, and civil rights icon.
Catch the show between now and Feb 2nd in Halifax or Feb 13-22 in Ottawa at the National Arts Centre.

𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 by Cherissa Richards 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 by Jeremiah Sparks

𝗦𝗲𝘁 & 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗺𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 by Rachel Forbes 𝗟𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 by Leigh Ann Vardy 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 by Troy Slocum 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 Aaron Collier

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿 Christine Oakey 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿 Kevin Olson

𝗖𝗵𝗿𝘆𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Daniel Nwobi

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 Deborah Castrilli, Matthew Brown, Andrew Shaver, Cameron Grant, Jeremiah Sparks, Riel Reddick-Stevens, JD Leslie, Julie Martell, Lisa Nasson, Sarah Frank

Thank you to Show Sponsor • 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 and Season Sponsors • 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 • 𝗧𝗗 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸 • 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗱𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝘀 •𝗔𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗮 and the 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗮𝘅 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆

📸 Stoo Metz Photography + a couple of my (Sarah)'s phone photos

01/10/2025

Thank you James Hill & Anne Janelle, Kraken Brass, and The Carleton for a very merry time a few weeks ago! It was a lovely way to celebrate the holidays and move into the new year. And yep that's a pretty good pic of baby bump #3! 🐣

11/13/2024

Cozy duo living room show on Nov 23 in Lawrencetown, NS!

Saturday, Nov 23 @ 7 P.M.
$25 at the door
RSVP to reserve a seat
Greg & Julia: 902-233-9151 or [email protected] 🎻

11/12/2024

We're playing some merry and bright shows this winter, starting very early on Nov 20 in Truro! Warming up the stage for James Hill & Anne Janelle accompanied by Kraken Brass. 📯 ❄️ 🎄

Nov. 20 - Truro, First United Church, 7pm
https://www.jamesandanne.com/event-details/the-midnight-clear-truro-ns
Dec. 21 - Wolfville, Al Whittle Theatre, 7:30pm
https://www.jamesandanne.com/event-details/the-midnight-clear-wolfville-ns
Dec. 22 - Halifax, The Carleton, 7pm
https://www.thecarleton.ca/events/james-hill-anne-janelle-the-bombadils/

11/07/2024

A moment of sweetness. 💓 And if you need some good news this week -- this little one will be a big sis at 14 months old! Baby 3 coming April 2025. A friend said, the angels had the next one ready and waiting in the wings. 👼

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http://www.thebombadils.com/

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