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Haydon Kitchen Party

An intimate evening of live music, local food and drink in a small schoolhouse just north of Bowmanville, in the village of Haydon. We are surrounded by Enniskillen, Tyrone, Hampton, Blackstock and South of Port Perry. Each Kitchen Party features local musicians and promises to deliver an energy filled evening complete with cash bar, fantastic local food and fundraising opportunities.

This Kitchen Party features 2 musical guests. Jimmy Breslin will start our event. Jimmy is local to Greenbank and has spent many years in the north of Thunder Bay, but has found his way home. His guitar skills and sweet voice will get us started.

We are very excited to host Evangeline Gentle and her band on our small stage. Evangeline Gentle is a Scottish-Canadian internationally acclaimed folk-pop songwriter, performer and vocalist based in Peterborough, Ontario. . Contemplative and affecting, Evangelines lyrics evoke lush emotional landscapes within the listener and seek to unite audiences with a sense of sameness.

This event helps to keep this small community hall open and functioning as a meeting place for the people of Haydon and surrounding hamlets. Thank you for supporting our community!

Please enjoy the impressive bios of our musical guests:

Evangeline Gentle:Evangeline Gentle is a Scottish-Canadian, internationally acclaimed folk-pop songwriter/performer and vocalist based in Ontario, Canada. Contemplative and affecting, Evangelines lyrics evoke lush emotional landscapes within the listener and seek to unite audiences with a sense of sameness. A celebration of queerness and queer culture is woven throughout Gentles upcoming release Where The Diamonds Are, best heard on singles Gay Bar and Bad Girls. On this she says, while many have never been to a gay bar, most know the euphoria of getting dressed up to go out dancing with friends. We are inextricably connected by our shared emotional, human experience. I love that songs remind us of this.

Produced by Jim Bryson (Kathleen Edwards), and mastered by Grammy-nominated engineer Philip Shaw Bova (Bahamas, Feist), her 2020 debut self-titled release earned international praise. Gentle was interviewed by legendary host Scott Simon on NPRs Weekend Edition Saturday, has appeared in Forbes, and received radio play on BBC, CBC, SiriusXM and more.
Evangeline supported headliner Donovan Woods at the 2021 Mariposa Folk Festival, with other standout performances including those at Maverick Festival (UK) and Static Roots Festival (Germany) in 2022. She has supported acts such as Kathleen Edwards, Whitehorse, Tim Baker, Begonia, Terra Lightfoot, Basia Bulat, Craig Cardiff, and Sarah MacDougall. She recently performed at the Peterborough Folk Festival this past summer and will be a performer at Trout Festival & Northern Lights Festival Boreal this summer.
Evangeline released her sophomore album September 2023.

Jimmy Breslin: Growing up in small town Ontario Jimmy Breslin was introduced to music at an early age.
Taking piano lessons, playing guitar during family jams, and tagging along while his dad
performed around the GTA with roots groups Brookfield and Sourpuss.
During his teenage years hanging around the Greenbank Folk Music Society, taking in some
of Canadas finest folk/roots/blues acts became a monthly routine and cemented his love for the
intimate, conversational nature of singer-songwriter performances.
In 2007 Jimmy moved north to Thunder Bay where he studied classical guitar, music theory
and voice at Lakehead University. During his time in university he helped form the band
Greenbank Trio (later Greenbank). Over the course of 10 years and 4 albums the group
performed hundreds of concerts from coast to coast across Canada and into the United States.
The groups focus on harmony vocals and storytelling was widely received, landing them
multiple invites to perform at David Suzuki events, feature performances with the Thunder Bay
Symphony Orchestra, opening slots for Cheap Trick and Blue Rodeo, some kind words from
Burton Cummings and even a nod of approval from Bruce Cockburn.
From 2014 - 2016 Jimmy performed as guitarist for Saskatchewan born country singer Scott
Kyle King warming up north Ontario audiences for music legends Chicago, REO Speedwagon,
Leann Rimes, and Ronnie Dunn (of Brooks & Dunn). During that same period he performed as
part of indigenous folk singer Nick Shermans band for multiple recordings and tours, making
notable appearances at the Ottawa Bluesfest and the 2016 Pan Am Games.
Since 2018 Jimmy has been a session keyboardist for Thunder Bay based rock group The
Honest Heart Collective. During his time with THHC he has performed on several of their studio
releases and tours receiving hundreds of thousands of plays worldwide and toured with
Canadian indie rock icons The Trews.
In 2021 Jimmy relocated to Peterborough, Ontario where he currently enjoys a more
stationary life teaching music, performing on occasion, and quietly working away on his first solo
record.