In Search of Lost Trees

“In  Search of Lost Trees” is a folk song cycle, created and performed by  singer-songwriter and storyteller David Newland. In the summer of 2023,  David and his 11-year-old son  travelled to Northern Ontario, looking  for trees he had planted as a tree-planter in the early 90s.

Their  journey unfolds in stories, songs, and images, asking what it means to  live in this time of tremendous change--and encouraging the audience to  find and renew relationships with their own lost trees.

"In  Search of Lost Trees" invokes family, memory, mythology and ecology in  original stories and songs, calling us to care for our faraway  forests–and our local trees!

David's  previous project, "The Northwest Passage in Story and Song" was a hit  in Haliburton and across the country. "In Search of Lost Trees" looks to  chart a similar course, after a fabulous debut in Cobourg and feature  stories on CBC Radio "Fresh Air",…