Bravo Niagara! International Music Festival


Angie Strauss loves to paint to music! - so when she was approached by the founders of the Bravo Niagara! International Music Festival, mother-daughter duo Christine Mori and Alexis Spieldenner, to have her artwork displayed during the event, Angie had to say yes! 
Musical guests included award-winning jazz vocalist Molly Johnson, as well as 15-year-old piano protege Nadia Azzi (pictured above)

We were honoured and excited to welcome to our gallery the 40 member choir from The Royal Masonic School in Hertfordshire, England - and were thrilled to hear them sing for us - something that we will hold in our memory for a long time to come… Thanks girls!

Poem for Angie from a Visitor who was Inspired by her Garden!

Warmth on a Winter Day

by Sinéad Tyrone

 

Snow falls light as mist,

colors sky and landscape grey,

hides what lies

on the river’s opposite side,

obscures the sun’s

heat and light.

Shorebirds - bufflehead,

mallard, tundra swan -

fish ice-laden waters,

tuck into themselves on shore

to preserve warmth.

Garden bench offers empty respite,

aches for fulfillment;

flowers sleep under soil blankets,

sundials and statuary

disguise themselves under camouflage snow.

 

I enter through your garden gate,

walk winding paths

to your sacred haven,

color on walls,

music in air,

comfort for a soul

locked in too much grey.

Winter fades

as I walk past florals,

drink in your flowing spirit,

medicine for my artist’s soul,

sisters from other countries

joined by a need

to express what lies within.

 

Schedules call.

You have paintings to finish,

I am headed for the Falls,

ice covered,

frozen glory

my camera longs to capture.

I walk your garden path

once more,

this time in retreat,

buoyed by your camaraderie,

the world no longer grey,

my heart no longer low.

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