The SweetWater Music Festival marks the spring season and Mother's Day with a special music event on Sunday, May 8 at the Historic Leith Church. Few & Fewer In Concert, an afternoon concert beginning at 2 p.m., features Artistic Director Mark Fewer on violin, Guy Few on trumpet, along with pianist Stephanie Mara. The concert kicks off the 2016 season as SweetWater prepares for the Festival, which takes place from September 16 to 18.
The afternoon program is an eclectic mix of
On Wednesday, April 27 the Grey Bruce Youth Film Festival screening will take place at the Galaxy Cinemas in Owen Sound. This free event is open to the public and runs from 5:30 – 7:30 pm. Audience members will be treated to a full screening of 10 short films created by youth from across Grey and Bruce Counties. The screening is followed by an awards ceremony announcing the winners of the 2016 Grey Bruce Youth Film Festival.
This year's films include a coincidental superhero, a failed magician, an epic battle between a knight and a wicked witch, some squirrels and an introduction to parkour. The Grey Bruce Youth
Today, Joe Johnson and W. D. Keeling Printers Limited, Owen Sound ON entered into a contract to print his recently completed book, The Vascular Plants of the Bruce Peninsula, Ontario. The book will be coming from the printer in approximately three weeks. Joe would like to...
The Georgian Bay Folk Society has announced the finalists in its Road to Summerfolk: Youth Discovery series. Musical acts between the ages of 14 and 22 competed at preliminary showcases in Owen Sound and Kitchener earlier this month where a panel of judges awarded 11 acts a place in the finale showcase to be held April 24th at the Harmony Centre in Owen Sound. The acts range in size and style from solo singer-songwriters on pianos, ukuleles, and guitars to a six piece band complete with accordion and cello. They are competing for the opportunity to fill one of the five remaining slots on the roster of the 41st Annual Summerfolk Music and Crafts Festival in August.
Summerfolk started the Youth Discovery series in 2007 to give young musicians performance opportunities and the resources they need to develop as professional artists. Almost ten years later, veterans of the program have won awards through Folk Music Ontario and launched musical careers that have seen them tour across
Regarded as one of the most entertaining performers in Canada of any musical genre, rock 'n roll, boogie-woogie pianist Michael Kaeshammer is a world-class musician, a 'cool' singer, and a charismatic showman who connects with any concert-hall audience as though he was entertaining guests in his own living room. Kaeshammer's performances, on record and on stage, are an invitation to join the party. Don't miss Kaeshammer's return to Meaford, Monday April 25! "For me the performance is as much about the energy coming off the stage as the energy coming from the audience. It's about being myself, writing from the heart and showing my love for life. That's what I want to convey. After the show, people ask me, 'do you really have that much fun?' And I say 'you don't know the half of it. It's even more exhilarating than it looks'." – Kaeshammer
A night with Michael and his band isn't the kind of show where you just sit, watch and applaud politely every now and then. Their goal isn't to intimidate you with the scholarly depth of their music, it's to entertain, inform and include you – A wild ride with no fixed destination except where he feels he and the crowd want to go. On stage and on record it's all about drawing the audience in. That's where the joy is, pure and simple. When Michael steps on stage he'll greet
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