The evening starts with a few numbers from local folk musicians before we have two sets from top Canadian musicians Rachel & Darren.

With more than a decade of making records and touring around the world behind them—as members of the award-winning Cape Breton Celtic supergroup Còig, Rachel Davis and Darren McMullen are now touring as a duo.

Fiddle vituoso Rachel and multi-instrumentalist Darren are well-established and respected in the world of traditional music, each attracting attention with their own recordings and headlining stages across Canada, the U.S, the U.K., Belgium, and Australia. They have collected a mantle of awards and accolades including the 2020 Canadian Folk Music Award for Traditional Singer of the Year (Rachel Davis), multiple East Coast Music Awards, and a JUNO Award nomination for their critically acclaimed albums.

There most recent album Home, co-produced by Dave Gunning, captures the pair’s outstanding musicianship and vocals offering a refreshing mix of traditional tunes and songs with original co-writes and signature classics. They take turns on lead vocals and harmonies, shifting effortlessly from haunting ancient melodies to contemporary folk classics to songs written with some of this generation’s most notable songwriters.

Listening to Rachel and Darren, it’s obvious that they’ve been playing together for a while—there’s an easy way about them, a sense of comfort that comes through in the music, in the mix of their instruments, the blending of their voices, and how the arrangements leave room for each other. Explore the music and experience the journey—Home.

Home received the 2024 Music Nova Scotia Award for Traditional Recording of the Year. It was also nominated for the 2025 Canadian Folk Music Awards.