Join us at Studio Bell for an electrifying night of Canadian East Coast Celtic-rock as National Music Centre presents the high-energy, award-winning Derina Harvey Band on June 20.
Enjoy authentic East Coast storytelling through two dynamic sets of music, encompassing everything from upbeat sea shanties to heartfelt ballads. The performance features the band's arrangements of Celtic and Canadian folk classics, along with a number of their own original songs. Derina's compelling and humorous storytelling weaves one song to the next, offering a candid glimpse into select moments in Canadian history and her own experiences growing up on Canada’s East Coast.
About Derina Harvey Band
Derina Harvey leads the award-winning Celtic Rock group, the Derina Harvey Band (dHb). With a show that offers a fresh take on traditional folk songs as well as a few originals, Derina’s vibrant personality takes centre stage with humour, storytelling, and, of course, her powerful vocals. That voice earned her a 2025 Canadian Folk Music Award nomination for Contemporary Singer of the Year. dHb has been likened to a “rockier” version of Canada’s Great Big Sea, if fronted by Adele. The group took home the 2024 East Coast Music Award for Fans’ Choice Entertainer of the Year, and is also nominated for a 2025 Canadian Folk Music Award nomination for New/Emerging Artist of the Year. The accolades are deserved, as this Celtic Rock group has a high-energy live show that leaves audiences hollering from their seats.
dHb concerts can be adapted to suit any venue; whether it’s a captivating night of telling stories through song for an audience in a Performing Arts Center, or a dinner and dance in a community hall. The band has covered a fair amount of Canada via the performing arts and festival circuits and is now poised to do the same in the United States. They were very well-received at six juried US showcases: Arts Northwest (2017 Best in Showcase Award, 2024), Western Arts Alliance (2018), Performing Arts Exchange (2018), Ohio Arts Professionals Network (2022), North Carolina ArtsMarket (2023). Following these, the band has quickly begun to make inroads from coast to coast in the US.
The group enjoyed a huge wave of new online followers from across the globe via TikTok. dHb’s recording of Tom Lewis’s “The Last Shanty” was used in thousands of videos on the platform, introducing the band to a whole new generation of listeners. The band has three albums to their credit, with the latest being Waves of Home (2023).