CONCERT DATE: Friday Nov. 14th, 7PM Festival Theatre, 504 Main St. Wolfville, ARYO ensembles are performing at a combined concert, with Acadia Youth Wind Band.

ARYO presents one regular scheduled concert at the end of each term. The fall concert is usually a collaboration with the Acadia University String Orchestra. Community events and outreach to schools provide additional performance opportunities. Through a partnership with Acadia Performing Arts, ARYO families benefit from free tickets to several concerts in their series.

ARYO’s 2024-25 concerts included a collaboration with Acadia University String Orchestra at Festival Theatre in November, a fundraising concert with other local musicians at the Wolfville Baptist Church in December, our end of term concert at Denton Hall in April and a performance at the Wolfville Nursing Home in May.

Some other concert and workshop moments in 2024-25

2023-2024 concerts:

ARYO fall 2023 concert: Vitula (Latin for “string instrument”), a collaboration with Acadia University String Orchestra, Wednesday, Nov, 22nd, 7:00 PM, Festival Theatre, Wolfville.

ARYO spring 2024 concert: Strings Together!, a collaboration with Seeds of Music, Thursday, March 28th, 7:30 PM, Denton Auditorium, Wolfville.

2022-2023 concerts:

Our fall concert was “North Star”, a collaborative concert with Acadia University String Orchestra, on November 23rd, 2022. Our spring concert took place on April 13th at Festival Theatre in Wolfville. The ARYO Orchestra and the Fiddle Group performed at the end of year concert of the Horton High School Bands, on Thursday, June 9th, and some ARYO players were part of a string quartet at the Horton Music Awards on June 15th. Many thanks to the Horton band teacher, Lyndsey Mitchell, for welcoming our students! On July 22nd, as part of Music in Communities, ARYO put on a student performance, followed by an instructor trio at The Annex, in Canning

2021-2022 Concerts

We held an in-person concert for families of students on Tuesday Nov. 23rd 2021 at Horton Community Centre in Grand Pré. Our Fiddle Group was able to perform in public for the first time since the Covid-19 outbreak, at the West Brooklyn Speakeasy Christmas Craft Fair on Nov. 20th. Our end of year concert took place on April 5th.

2020-2021 Concerts

On Dec. 1st, 2020 we held an in-person concert at the Horton Community Centre, Grand Pré. In December some ARYO instructors and students offered a concert of Christmas music via Zoom to Wickwire Place Seniors’ Residence, Wolfville. In the spring we were unable to perform in person but collaborated with the Acadia University String Orchestra in a recorded concert, broadcast on Youtube on April 15th  . The Conundrum String Quartet, with two ARYO instructors as members, performed in person at our “Try an Instrument Day” at Horton Community Centre on April 20th.

2019-2020 Concerts

The Covid-19 outbreak caused the cancellation of all performances scheduled for March and April 2020. Nevertheless we were able to conclude our series of online sessions with a recorded concert by some of our students at the Wolfville Baptist Church on June 30th. The concert, broadcast over Eastlink TV, was part of a project organized by the Wolfville Area Inter-Church Council to bring music into Seniors’ homes in our area.

Fall 2019 concerts:

A concert for family and friends took place on Tuesday Nov. 26th at Festival Theatre in Wolfville.

Two ensembles, the ARYO Orchestra and Fiddle Group, also performed on Nov. 29th at Festival Theatre, alongside the Acadia University String Orchestra.

On Tuesday, Dec. 3rd the ARYO ensembles performed a Christmas concert for the residents of Wickwire Place Seniors’ Home in Wolfville.