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Performers and Presenters

Newfoundland and Labrador musicians will be performing at The Iceberg Festival with special Guest Snook. See below our list of performers and presenters for 2011.

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Peter Soucy known as Snook has been writing, acting, designing, and directing for stage, radio, and television since 1986. He is a graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and taught secondary school Visual Arts for several years. FLUX, the most successful of his four stage-plays, has been published, performed in several provinces and states, and adapted for television.

Peter won a Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council Award in 1985, co-founded Day Job Theatre in 1987, and won the Kari Award for best performance in a Canadian television commercial in 1996. He recently concluded a three-year appointment as Artistic Director of Rebel Island Theatre and the NaGeira Theatre Festival in Carbonear.
 

Fergus O’Byrne (vocals, banjo, bodhran, concertina): 

Fergus, originally from Ireland, became a familiar voice on radio and television as a member of the renowned folk group, Ryan’s Fancy, with whom he recorded 14 albums. Since then, he has followed a busy solo and freelance career, touring throughout Canada, the United States, Europe, Hong Kong and Australia. He can be heard on recent recordings by Newfoundland artists Great Big Sea, and he has contributed to several anthologies of Newfoundland music. Fergus has also developed a curriculum-based school production that he tours throughout Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Jim Payne (vocals, accordion, mandola, guitar) 

A native of Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland, Jim Payne is a leading performer, collector and producer of traditional Newfoundland music. He is also one of the province’s most prolific songwriters, as well as being a singer of traditional songs, a storyteller, writer, actor, step dancer and instructor and caller of traditional Newfoundland set and square dances. He has performed extensively on radio and television both in Canada and abroad, and has toured throughout North America, the US, Europe, Japan and Australia. An ECMA nominee, Jim owns and operates his own record label, SingSong Inc., which has released twenty titles featuring traditional and contemporary music that reflects the Newfoundland experience.

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Daniel Payne
Cow Head

Daniel is an accomplished musician, singer, actor and storyteller from Cow Head, Gros Morne National Park, home of the internationally-known Gros Morne Theatre Festival. Daniel’s passion for Newfoundland music, dance and stories has taken him to international stages. From an acting perspective, Daniel is best known as Ned in the CBC production Random Passage.   

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 The Clark Family

St. Anthony, NL

has been performing for many years and is comprised of Tim, Simon, Noah and Sophia Clark. The music performed is a variety including traditional Newfoundland Music, Original Folk/Country and contemporary. All members sing and are featured on different numbers. The blend of music with harmonies of this family makes them a unique addition to the festival. They will be singing at the Kitchen Party on Tuesday June 14th and throughout the week you can listen to them as they participate in Iceberg Radio. Archive of the broadcast will be available online at www.radiostanthony.com

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Michael Burzynski

Michael is a naturalist, photographer, and writer. He lives in Rocky Harbour and works with Parks Canada as a vegetation biologist.     

 

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Stephen E. Bruneau

Stephen was born in 1964 and has lived in Newfoundland since 1968. A graduate of Memorial University’s Civil Engineering program, he started working at C-CORE in the summer of 1992 and immediately became immersed in the ongoing iceberg design load work for the Terra Nova FPSO. This work prompted his Ph.D. studies in ice loads, but not long after ice issues at the Confederation Bridge took centre stage and that ended up being the final theme of his doctoral thesis. Later, research experiments for and employment with private companies had him and his colleagues running around after icebergs, bashing them into cliffs and finding ways to cut, melt, split measure, model, track and predict them. In addition to studying the scientific characteristics of icebergs he has long been interested in their awesome beauty and their commercial potential for tourism and for consumer products. 
 

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Chef Steve Watson

Chef Steve Watson first came to Canada from London, England in 1977 to study North American cooking. Before arriving in Canada the native of Scunthorpe, England after serving as an apprentice in May Fair London then working in Scotland, Belgium, France and Germany. In July of 1999 Chef Watson decided it was time to make a career move. After working virtually his whole career as a chef he realized that his experience and talent could also be used outside the kitchen. It was this decision that brought Steve to the Farmers Dairy / Central Dairies Sales and Marketing team as Food Service Representative and Executive Chef. Steve has brought a wealth of knowledge and experience to the dairy industry, which combined with his unique talents have enabled him to create his own niche in the community. His extracurricular activities are as diverse as his talents, and it is through his role as Food Service Representative and Executive Chef that he is able to showcase these interests. He provides both culinary and ice carving demonstrations, and gives instructional cooking classes.

One Response to “Performers and Presenters”

1. author says:

   April 12, 2011 at 1:51 pm

   We have a complete listing of events on our site http://www.theicebergfestival.ca click on events and a calander with daily events listed will be available. Click an event for more information. Don’t forget to take a boat tour in St. Anthony and visit Grenfell Historic Properties. http://www.grenfell-properties.com

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