Join us for Dinner with the Artist and Concert ($48 plus HST), or concert only ($28 plus HST). Dinner starts at 5:45pm (doors open 5:15pm), and the concert starts at 7:30 pm.
TICKETS AVAILABLE IN OUR SHOP: https://arrowwoodfarm.ca/product/woodstove-concert-series-march-22-paul-and-trevor-mills/
It’s been almost six years since Paul Mills performed for us here at Arrowwood Farm and we’re delighted to welcome him back! And this time, as a bonus, he has come with his oh so talented son, Trevor!
Paul Mills is best known as an award-winning folk music record producer, but he is also an accomplished singer and songwriter himself. Paul was born weeks before the end of the second world war. He almost became a chemical engineer, and even lays claim to formulating lemon fresh Joy. However, the world became a better place when he ran away and joined the CBC in the seventies-heyday of respectable budgets. Over the course of those early years, he enabled the founding of the Winnipeg Folk Festival, flew across the Arctic Circle with Anne Murray, created a nationally aired radio folk music program called Touch the Earth, produced all but one of Stan Rogers’ records, fathered Trevor, and then exposed him to the persistent culture of folk music.
Paul is a picker, a.k.a. Curly Boy Stubbs, and one of the finest from back in the day. Yet, he approaches music as a producer, always looking for and finding the tasteful ways to make the song – whatever song – just, better. That approach informed Trevor’s early musical influences. Mills the younger grew to be an intuitive bass player and songwriter himself, touring across Canada with the likes of Digging Roots, Nathan Rogers and Aengus Finnan. Trevor found his own balance between science and the arts. After graduating as an engineer, specializing in quantum physics, he found a career as a software developer. Coding is something he could do from the back of the tour van while driving across Canada for days at a time. He is more settled into home life these days, finding time around work for music with friends and family in Barrie, Ontario and On March 22nd with his Dad here at Arrowwood! Paul is still going strong. Although he recently retired from his work as a record producer, he continues performing both as a solo artist and accompanying other artists. Six years ago, he was named as a Member of the Order of Canada for his years of exemplary contributions to the music industry.
Paul & Trevor have always enjoyed playing music together. The grooves lock effortlessly, their repertoires are complimentary, and the harmonies are familial. They have toured together and made an album together which will be available at their Arrowwood concert. They’re both drawn to the lyrics of a song, be they playful and light, or poetic and poignant, and they’re excited at the opportunity to bring their music to the Arrowwood Farm!
