Wild Women in Wilno

And with the completion of our new wilderness gallery, we were pleased to host the Wild Women in Wilno exhibition featuring wilderness art by Joyce Burkholder, Linda Sorensen and Kathy Haycock.

These creative painters paddle, hike and snowshoe into the Ontario wilderness with brushes and easels and return with amazing images.

One of the highlights of our music series was a fabulous performance by alt-roots artist Cara Luft accompanied by Hugh MacMillan from Spirit of the West. Cara is touring with her new CD "The Light Fantastic".

Cara is a founding member of the Juno award winning group The Wailin Jenny's and is now doing her own thang....see her if she's in your town!!!!

We celebrated Tom's birthday with a great performance by Cris Cuddy and Dennis Delorme. Here's artist Linda Sorensen and Terry and Patrice Walsh enjoying the music....and Tom of course, wearing his usual black cap!

Dennis Delorme and Cris Cuddy

Our booklaunch for artist Horst Guillhauman was well attended by area notables such as the Reeve of Madawaska Township, John Hildebrand. Guillhauman's beautiful limited edition book documents his fifty year career as an artist and showcases his artistic career with vivid full page reproductions of his paintings and sketches.

And here we are transformed into an elegant environment for an afternoon wedding luncheon.

One of the most enjoyable things about our business is the constant variety of events and people.

This summer we had Vittles and Fiddles, a wedding, various lunches, lots of music, a couple of art openings and the usual outdoorsy gatherings of campers and canoeists and cottagers.

An annual event is the Great Sneezy Waters and Zeke Mazerak performance in the cafe. Here, Wilno's own Rev Ken Ramsden joins in with his fiddle.

The dramatic paintings are part of the Wild Women in Wilno show which is here in our cafe and the new lower gallery until Oct 8.