In Patrick’s Traces

Celebrate St. Patrick’s at the Atwater Library

Exploring St Patrick—the man and the meme through music and words spanning the centuries. Thrill to the traditional uilleann pipes, marvel at medieval melodies, and tap your toes to lively fiddle tunes as we touch on highlights of Patrick’s life and the story of the Irish through the ages.

Emcee Kathleen Fee, Festival Bloomsday Montreal’s Artistic Director, welcomes piper Stuart Jackson, actor/singer/fiddler Quinn Dooley, and others to the Adair Auditorium stage for an entrancing hour’s entertainment.

Come join us.
And, yes, there’ll be a sing-along!

Tuesday, March 17th 2026

12:30 - 1:30 pm

Free admission. First come, first seated.

Atwater Library

1200 Atwater Ave, Westmount, Quebec H3Z 1T4

Performers

Stuart Jackson

Stuart Jackson is a percussionist and uilleann piper from Virginia, currently based in Montréal, Canada. As a researcher, he specializes in reconstructing poorly documented and unpublished electroacoustic works from the 20th century. This project on reviving experimental compositions has received support from the Fonds de recherche du Quèbec and the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel, Switzerland.

He has presented solo percussion concerts at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC) and Ausgang Plaza in Montréal, and performed as an uilleann pipe soloist with the Soho Rep Theatre and the Wordless Music Orchestra. With the Montréal percussion ensemble Sixtrum, he has performed at the Timespans Festival in New York City, Semaine du Neuf in Montréal, and the Musica Festival (with Les Percussions de Strasbourg) in Strasbourg, France. He is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Université de Montréal working with Jonathan Goldman and Guillaume Boutard.

Quinn Dooley

Quinn has had the pleasure of working across the country as an actor/musician and has performed in several productions celebrating the music, literature, and spirit of Irish culture. Select credits include: The Flood (Imago Theatre – META Award nominated), The Wolves (Imago Theatre/Geordie Theatre), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Segal Centre), June Carter in Ring of Fire (Theatre Aquarius, Citadel Theatre, Thousand Islands Playhouse), Miss Caledonia (Thousand Islands Playhouse), Once (RMTC, Grand Theatre), Evangeline (Charlottetown Festival, Citadel Theatre), Mamma Mia! (Capitol Theatre), A Man of No Importance (Theatre Sheridan), and Dora Award winning Brantwood (Theatre Sheridan). Additionally, she is a violinist and has lent her skills to many of the productions mentioned, as well as playing in the pit band for Strawberries In January (Centaur Theatre). Follow her online at @quinndooley.

Kathleen Fee

Kathleen hails from Ottawa where she attended La Maison Jeanne d’Arc, a bilingual convent day school. Her first leading role, age seven, was the Wolf in Little Red Riding Hood, foreshadowing a long career as a character voice specialist.

Professional training includes the Banff School of Fine Arts, Stratford Festival apprenticeship, École Jacques Lecoq in Paris, and Tom Todoroff workshops.
She has appeared on stages from Vancouver to Halifax, in feature films, TV shows, and countless television and radio commercials. In the 1970s she was the advertising spokesperson for the Royal Bank of Canada as Mary, the friendly teller.
Armed with a Certificate in Translation from McGill, she added script translation and adaptation to her skills in film post production.
She continues working as a character actor, narrator, and voice director in documentaries, live action, and animated films. She voiced the role of Granny Esther in the animated feature, Lydia and the Mist Rider, now in cinemas.
Her association with Festival Bloomsday Montreal began in its first year, 2011, when she was asked to perform Molly Bloom’s reverie-chapter 18 of James Joyce’s novel, Ulysses-now an annual tradition on June 16th. She later joined the board and was subsequently named Artistic Director. In that capacity she strives to bring intriguing, original, Irish-themed events to a wider audience. Just like today.