Eventide at St. Mary's Anglican Church

A beautiful venue located in the village of Hillsborough, N.B., St. Mary's Anglican Church is still an active church in the community.

About the Church:

Driving through scenic Albert County in the picture province of New Brunswick, on highway # 114, one comes upon the quaint village of Hillsborough. Mingled amongst the historic homes, one turns left from Main street onto Mill street. Nestled on a fifth of an acre grove of trees, with the muddy Petticodiac river as a background, is St. Mary's Anglican Church. Described by some as Gothic, St. Mary's stands as an unequalled specimen of Victorian ecclesiastic architecture. The west face of the church presents a chalet-like appearance, but rounding the southwest corner to the jutting vestibule entrance, its side-one character defies categorization. The high pitched wood-shingled wall give way to a gently sloped roof and extended shingle walls on either side. Strolling around the outside of the church, one discovers interesting details of obvious painstaking work. Well worn stone walkways and steps leading to the entrance. The old doors and wrought iron railings, ample red stained trim at the corners and around the windows and doors; the scalloped wood trim atop the roof. The carvings of cherubim barely visible to the eye carved near the roofline. Behind the church and along the river side, are several tombstones, two of which bear the surnames of principle founders ----Osman and Tomkins.
-- excerpt taken from their website http://trychurch.homestead.com/StMarys_History.html


About the Music Evenings:

As founder of The Bore Music Festival and an active member of the community I wanted to bring beautiful music by talented singer song writers to the community not just once a year but hopefully once a month. This is going to be a 'listening' evening where people come to truly appreciate music. The Church has been generous to lend us their venue which was built with acoustics in mind to benefit the community. I hope you will join us for one of our evenings!

Shows at Eventide will normally be priced as a suggested donation of $10.00 to donate partially to the church and the rest going to the musicians traveling through. We however, do not want to turn anyone away from experiencing these wonderful evenings and will accept Pay What You Can donations.

Tickets will be first come first served at the door or reservations can be made by contacting ksoconnor@hotmail.com to ensure a seat.