Eliza Doyle has organized a 12-month music program starting next week in Stanley Mission. (submitted photo/Eliza Doyle)

By Derek Cornet

Musician returns

Doyle launching year-long music program in Stanley Mission

Aug 30, 2019 | 2:07 PM

A year-long Musician in Residency Program organized by Eliza Doyle will begin next month in Stanley Mission.

“There will basically be someone like me up there for a full 12 months,” she said. “I have three different people coming as well as myself. We will all have 12 weeks.”

Doyle, who completed a five-week program in Stanley Mission back in January and February 2019, received a grant from the Saskatchewan Arts Board for the 12-month project. She noted a second grant was also approved by TD MusiCounts, which went toward purchasing musical equipment including fiddles. The program will begin Sept. 3 with Eric Nelson, a former band member of The Dead South.

Doyle also mentioned the program will focus on engaging participants in music lessons and building local capacity by mentoring community members to job-shadow the program facilitators. She hopes the mentorship portion will be successful because, if there are enough people who are interested, the program can become self-sustaining.

“They are really happy we got the grant,” Doyle said. “Everyone has been very supportive and are partners in it. We jointly applied for the grant together.”

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In January 2020, Doyle also plans on bringing the music program to Pinehouse Lake through a partnership with The Cultural Exchange Society. It will be similar to her first project in Stanley Mission and will serve as a way to find out if it’s a fit for the community and see if residents are interested.

Doyle is also currently busy planning for Doylefest from Sept. 6 to 8 located 66 kilometers west of Saskatoon. Stanley Mission’s The 2EZ Band will perform at the festival Sept. 7 at 4 p.m. All the proceeds go towards music programming in Saskatchewan for under-served communities.

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derek.cornet@jpbg.ca

Twitter: @saskjourno