Eliza Doyle is returning to Stanley Mission to teach music. (submitted photo/Eliza Doyle)

By Derek Cornet

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Doyle returns to Stanley Mission this week with music teachers

May 28, 2019 | 1:00 PM

Professional musician Eliza Doyle is returning to Stanley Mission this week and she’s bringing some of her talented friends along with her.

Doyle was most recently in the northern community in January when she lead a music pilot project for five weeks with funding from the Canadian Council for the Arts and Saskatchewan Cultural Exchange. Now, Doyle has her own non-profit called Cultural Arts Mentorship Programming, which launched during a special fundraiser last week in Saskatoon.

“It was actually inspired by Stanley Mission,” she said. “I knew I wanted to do something, but I didn’t know what it was going to be. Just the excitement with the community and trying to think of how to sustainably offer arts programming to communities is really what sparked the development of the non-profit.”

Doyle will be in Stanley Mission on Wednesday with fellow musicians Alexis Normand of Saskatoon and Clarence Logan from Vancouver. The three of them will be available to anyone interested in learning guitar, banjo, piano and vocals. Tristen Durocher of Buffalo Narrows will also be in Stanley Mission May 30 and 31 to provide fiddle lessons.

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It’s still unknown exactly how the programming this week will be organized as the musician don’t know how many people will be interested in lessons. Doyle recommended local residents call her at 1-306-774-5888 to sign up or for more information.

“Everyone in the community is so supportive that it makes it really easy,” she said. “They really want it. They work really hard to accommodate us when we get there and everyone is really receptive, so it makes it really easy to keep coming back.”

Using Stanley Mission as an initial test site for her non-profit, Doyle stated she wants to continue working with the community to develop sustainable arts programming. She wants to grow the project and determine its strengths and weakness, before spreading it into other communities.

In July, Doyle also wants to take six Stanley Mission youth to the Girls Rock Camp in July, while in August, she hopes to bring a group of residents to perform at the Northern Lights Blue Grass Festival near Big River. Doyle also wrote and submitted some grants to potentially have a year-long musician residency starting in September.

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derek.cornet@jpbg.ca

Twitter: @saskjourno