BURK’S FALLS – The seeds planted by Hawksley Workman’s three-day stint at the Old Towne Theatre are already starting to bear fruit.

Burk’s Falls is being included in the Pan-Canadian New Folk Ensemble Fall Tour 2008 that will shortly start its cross-Canada tour.

After stops in Toronto, Montreal and other metropolitan areas, the six-member ensemble is stopping in Burk’s Falls on Oct. 20 as it makes its way westward.

Some of the country’s most innovative musicians have assembled to create a beautiful odd-sort stew of sweet frailing banjos, guitars, piano, a string section, warm harmonies and great, great songs.

Kim Barlow, Christine Fellows and Old Man Luedecke are cherished Canadian artists who span a wide geography as well as lyrical subject matters and musical styles. They will share the stage with accompanists on violin, cello and percussion, backing each other up through two round-robin sets of brilliant, shimmering arrangements of original songs.

Touring collaborations are a time-honoured tradition, harkening to such auspicious creative convergences as the Rolling Thunder Revue. Though the music industry is by its nature competitive, artists thrive when they find opportunities to come together in song or studio, at festivals, or even brainstorming ideas from opposite ends of the country.

Throughout this 17-date tour, as the musicians in the ensemble absorb each others’ songs and styles, the show will embody the creative process of songwriting and the community that feeds these artists’ creative fires.

Tickets are available at the Village of Burk’s Falls municipal office.