Upcoming Events
Susanna at Holy Rosary, Burlington
You can catch Susanna most Sunday mornings at either the 9AM or 11AM mass as violinist or cantor. Beginning September after the summer break!
Please join us and don't hesitate to come up and say hello after the mass.
Holy Rosary Church is located at
287 Plains Road East, Burlington, ON
September 12
English Country Dance session at St Barnabas Anglican Church church all, 363 Danforth Avenue, Toronto.
Entrance off Hampton Ave by the Day care playground.
Susanna McCleary and Ben Bolker violins; Dorothy de Val, Keyboard.
Caller: Alan Rosenthal
RECENT EVENT
July 29, 2025
Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain Conference, July 28-31,
University of York, UK
A Wilkie Collins Songbook
Susanna joins pianist Dorothy de Val, tenor Ben Staniforth and narrator Allan Atlas in a lecture recital celebrating music in the novels of Dickens's contemporary, Wilkie Collins
Media & Press
Susanna McCleary plays fiddle tunes from a variety of traditions, with Dorothy de Val on piano. Sponsored by the CCB Toronto Visionaries Chapter, Canadian Council of the Blind. Includes Celtic, traditional English, Québecois, Métis, Cape Breton and Klezmer.
Works by Dorothy de Val: Expectation, Francis and Richar…
Scottish/Cape Breton:James Moray/Cross of Inverness/Mabou Reel.
Susanna McCleary, Dorothy de Val
Press Kit Links
(Note these refer to a time before Neep&Tattie were created]
Canadian Council for the Blind, Toronto Visionaries Chapter: “Virtual Ceilidh” with Susanna McCleary and Dorothy de Val, April 16, 2021
http://www.ccbtorontovisionaries.ca/concert.php
Vivian Fellegi, “Balance in Blindness: the Plasticity of Perception,” Whole Note, 26 Feb 2020: https://www.thewholenote.com/index.php/newsroom/musical-life/music-and-health/29885-balance-in-blindness-the-plasticity-of-perception
Katharine Skellon, “Blind Violinist to Star in Fundraising Event,” South Wales Argus,
7 Nov 1014. https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/11589084.blind-violinist-to-star-in-fundraising-show/
“Taking Tea with Verdi,” Hereford Times, 7 Nov 2014. https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/11586876.taking-tea-with-verdi/
“Road Open in Time for Charity Concert [“Tea with Jane Eyre”] in Part-y-Seal”, Hereford Times, 24 June, 2014. https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/11296815.road-open-in-time-for-charity-concert-in-part-y-seal/