Join us for CBU’s 2025 Fall Film Festival!
Thursday, October 30, 7:00pm in the Boardmore Theatre- The Piano Turner.
The Piano Tuner traces the life and work of ‘Red’ Mike MacDonald, a piano tuner who has seen all the piano-owning homes, churches, concert halls, theatre spaces, hotels and taverns of Cape Breton Island these last 65 years. The film opens with Red Mike speculating as to why people still have a love for this acoustic instrument, for its strings and hammers, its white and black keys. And then, as if by happenstance, we are let in on Red Mike’s true passion. And that is Jazz. We see archival footage, learn from his musical peers and fans that Mike has been a major figure in the jazz community of Cape Breton Island, its dependable bass-player, much adored by a devoted group of players whose origin stretches back to the Sydney of the 1930’s.
Q&A to follow.
Free admission, all are welcome.