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One of the true masters of mischief, mayhem, and melody brings his irresistible songs and madcap sense of humour to ESSO Symphony for Kids. Juno Award-winner Al Simmons demonstrates the unique science behind his bizarre versions of stringed, woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments, entrancing young and old alike. Get ready for an outrageously fun afternoon!
Ticket Information
(A) Dress Circle $29 Adult / $17 Child
(B) Terrace $27 Adult / $16 Child
(C) Orchestra $27 Adult / $16 Child
(D) Upper Circle $21 Adult / $13 Child
Tickets subject to applicable service charges.
This is the final performance in the 2010-11 Esso Symphony for Kids. Click here to find out more about the 2011-12 Symphony for Kids series!
Thank you to our series sponsor: 
Our Resident Conductor Lucas Waldin appears in part thanks to the support of Enbridge.Artist Info
Al Simmons, entertainer extraordinaire
Al Simmons’ one-man, multi-prop, music-filled, off the wall performances have elevated audiences world-wide to collective giggles and all-out guffaws. At once childlike in its simplicity and sophisticated in its execution, Al’s humour touches a responsive chord in people of every age. In the entertainment business since 1970, the popular Manitoba-based children’s performer is likely Canada’s most versatile comedian. He puts on a funfest, full of bizarre gadgets, wild costumes, unique songs, crazy vaudeville-inspired routines, and of course bad puns.From his distant Romanian and Scottish ancestors Al has inherited a quick wit, lanky legs, large flipper like feet and a rubber face. His father, a charismatic magazine salesman and would be performer, spent many hours telling tall tales and re-enacting old vaudeville routines in their living-room. Al's Mom taught the budding young vaudevillian the genteel art of punning, silly songs and magic tricks. But the most important thing that his parents taught him was how to use his talents to do good and bring happiness to the world without hurting anyone. Al’s debut album Something’s Fishy at Camp Wiganishie earned a Juno nomination for best Children’s Album. His follow up recording, Celery Stalks at Midnight, won the 1995 Juno Award and the 1996 U.S. Parents’ Choice Award. The Truck I Bought From Moe, his third album, garnered a Juno nomination and a Parents’ Choice Award. Counting Feathers, his illustrated children’s book, was short-listed for the McNally-Robinson Book of the Year in 1997. Al and his wife Barbara have been married since 1976 and live in harmony and pandemonium near the small Manitoba town of Anola. They have three sons, Karl, Will, and Brad, and two granddaughters, Ashley and Kaitlin. Their home, built around two train cars, is equipped with a fire-pole that connects an upstairs shop with a main-floor playroom lined with mattresses and filled with pillows. Their 15-acre yard is flowered with zip lines, Tarzan ropes, slides and swings.
Al Simmons last appeared with the ESO in December 2007.
Lucas Waldin, conductor
The 2010/11 season marks the second for Lucas Waldin as Resident Conductor for the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. This mentorship position is made possible through the Canada Council for the Arts and Enbridge. Mr. Waldin graduated in 2006 from the Cleveland Institute of Music with a Masters in Conducting. He has performed with L'Orchestre du Festival Beaulieu-Sur-Mer (Monaco), Staatstheater Cottbus (Brandenburg), and Bachakademie Stuttgart. Lucas was assistant conductor of the contemporary orchestra RED (Cleveland), director of the Cleveland Bach Consort, and a Discovery Series Conductor at the Oregon Bach Festival. In 2007, he was invited to conduct the Miami-based New World Symphony Orchestra in masterclasses given by Michael Tilson Thomas. In Lucerne in 2009, he also participated in a masterclass led by Bernard Haitink, with the Lucerne Festival Strings.
A native of Toronto, Lucas Waldin has spent summers studying in Europe, including studies at the International Music Academy in Leipzig, the Bayreuth Youth Orchestra, and the Acanthes New Music Festival in France. On this continent, he has studied under the renowned Bach conductor Helmut Rilling at the Oregon Bach Festival, and has attended conducting masterclasses with the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra in Toronto. Mr. Waldin received a Bachelor of Music degree in flute performance from the Cleveland Institute, studying with Joshua Smith.
The ESO would like to thank Enbridge Pipelines for their commitment to the arts and this program by matching the funding provided by the Canada Council for the Arts.
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Al Simmons performs the 911 Rap:My Winspear COMMUNITY
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