Music is the cure for what ails you

Join us for a night filled with laughter and delicious BBQ at Boshkung Smokehouse on 1095 Redkenn Rd. Get ready to enjoy some hilarious comedy acts while indulging in mouth-watering BBQ dishes. It’s the perfect way to take a break from spring cleaning and come have some good food and great laughs with us. $50 Includes BBQ Dinner, your 1st beverage and the Comedy Show with 3 touring headlining Comedians Don’t miss out on this fun-filled event!

The Comics

Jason Allen

Bio: Jason Allen is a comic from Hamilton Ontario who travels all across North America performing at various comedy clubs along the way.  With his rapid fire style and honest approach to comedy Jason will be an act to watch out for in the future.

Ryan Hillis

Ryan Hillis is an amazing talent in Canada. Started Performing from 2011, Ryan has already opened and toured for the late Gilbert Gottfried and Mike MacDonald!

Doug Koning

Doug Koning is a walking, talking, screaming cartoon. Originally hatched in St. Thomas Ontario, Doug now calls Hamilton home and is making audiences laugh wherever he goes.

Muskoka’s only Van Halen tribute show is hitting the stage in 2024. VAN HALEN ONE presents the music of the first incarnation of the band. The David Lee Roth Era. The show focuses on the band’s first album, sometimes referred to as Van Halen 1, performing songs like Running with the Devil, Eruption, and Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love. The remainder of the show presents hits from the rest of that first era of Van Halen. From Van Halen II’s Beautiful Girls to 1984’s Panama, and Jump.

VAN HALEN ONE is not a Clone show with musicians pretending to be Van Halen. Instead, this is a tribute show of solid musicians delivering the music of Van Halen as it should be. With intensity and exuberance. With two guitar players in the band, you will hear the songs performed live, that will include second guitar parts only ever heard on the original recordings.

Mike McAvan, as the show’s primary guitar player does all of the heavy lifting for the show, taking on the riffs, licks, and solos of the heroic Eddie Van Halen. Sean Cotton plays the front man role with originality, and integrity, not as a clownish imitation of the Van Halen’s singer Diamond Dave, but more as a vocal master of ceremonies. He’ll also double on second guitar when the music requires it. Rob Almond holds the arrangements together on bass guitar and with the iconic alto background vocals of VH’s Michael Anthony. Jeff Martin double kicks his way through the show on drums.

Doors open at 7:00 pm. $35, $30 for HCFS members and students, $40 at the door. Children and Youth 18 & under are free. Children 12 & under must be accompanied by an adult. Tickets must be obtained online to reserve a ticket for children and youth.

Christina Hutt presents the classic songs of Patsy Cline with a refreshing twist. As Patsy Cline, Christina brings the original era of the music to life. Engaging the audience with intimate reflections of lost love and those who have passed on, the haunting beauty that is the music of Patsy Cline is resurrected with the help of a five-piece band. The band reflects the radio house bands of old, acting as musical hosts and ghosts from the past. Sean Cotton on lead and background vocals, and guitar; George Axon on second guitar; Brad Smith on piano; Mike Phillips on bass and background vocals; Rich Brown on drums and background vocals insert classic instrumental songs of the era such as Rebel Rouser, Pipeline, and Apache offering a broader context to the music of Patsy Cline. With these spirits in the band Christina is able to evoke the Spirit of Patsy Cline. More info about Christina click here

Join us in the Great Hall at the Fleming College Haliburton School of Art and Design for a FREE performance!

Cassidy Taylor is an indie pop singer-songwriter who brings storytelling to another level with her atmospheric guitar tones and metaphorical lyricism. Her quirky personality shines through on stage and charms any audience she sets foot in front of. She released her debut, self-titled EP in July of 2023 which has garnered over 90K streams on Spotify. The third single off her recent EP, The Moon, landed a spot in Season 2 of Surviving Summer, a fast-growing Netflix TV series based in Australia.

Tickets: $15/person

Canadians often ask how did we manage to secure so much territory?

At the middle of the 19th century, as fathers of a Canadian Confederation attempted to cobble together a nation of four English- and French-speaking settlements in the eastern half of North America, the rest of what would eventually become the Canadian West sat apparently untamed and available. What defence was there against Fenian incursions? How could Hudson’s Bay Co. trading posts deflect American expansionism? What force could hope to out-flank U.S. Civil War armies just across the undefended border?

Steamboats, that’s what! Or, as aboriginal people called them “fire canoes.” In his book, Fire Canoe, historian Ted Barris brings the first-hand accounts of captains, stevedores, engineers, firemen, immigrants, soldiers and carpetbaggers who travelled the inland waterways of the prairies between 1859 and the turn of the century. The tales of their sudden arrival, the exploits of the people they carried, the impact of their regularly scheduled trips on waterways across the prairies, all come alive in this book.

Ted Barris is an award-winning journalist, author, and broadcaster. He regularly writes in the national media (National Post, Air Force magazine, Zoomer among many), and has hosted many CBC Radio network programs and shows on TV Ontario. His weekly blog The Barris Beat features commentary and narrative from his travels/experience. He has now published 20 non-fiction books, half of them wartime histories. His book The Great Escape: A Canadian Story won the 2014 Libris Award as Best Non-Fiction Book in Canada. His book Dam Busters: Canadian Airmen and the Secret Raid Against Nazi Germany received the 2019 NORAD Trophy from the RCAF Association. And his book Rush to Danger: Medics in the Line of Fire was listed for the 2020 Charles Taylor Prize for Non-Fiction in Canada. Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to Victory is Ted’s 20th published non-fiction book. Meanwhile, as 2022 ended, Ted received news that he’d been appointed Member of the Order of Canada.

Join us in the Great Hall at the Fleming College Haliburton School of Art and Design for a FREE performance!

Joel Saunders is a fingerstyle guitarist and singer/songwriter based in Guelph Ontario. Establishing himself as a standout musician both locally and amongst the international online guitar community, his fingerstyle technique, jazz training and pop sensibilities have manifested into explorative originals and a repertoire of covers that spans nearly a century. Joel has placed in the Canadian International Fingerstyle Competition and has released two albums and several singles of original music. He currently performs throughout the GTA as a solo musician and with several ensembles, teaches online, and does audio and video production work from his home studio in Guelph Ontario.

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Craig and Maggie Thompson taught music education in Toronto for many decades, additionally they have both been faculty at the National Music Camp of Canada. Craig is a brass specialist and freelance trumpet player who enjoys performing in musicals and giving private lessons. Maggie is a saxophone player. In 2021, they co-founded the local group Adverse Conditions – Highlands Soul Band. The 11 piece band performs dance music by artists such as Earth, Wind and Fire, Sam & Dave, Chicago and Stevie Wonder. The group enjoys performing to raise money for the local community.

Join us in the Great Hall at the Fleming College Haliburton School of Art and Design for a FREE performance!

Saskatoon native, Roots and Blues singer, Susie Vinnick is a three time Juno Nominee, CFMA Award winner, and a 11-time winner of the Maple Blues Award for songwriting, female vocalist, acoustic act and more. Suzie has a voice that soars, it growls, it whispers and it shouts from a deep, deep well of emotion. In July 2023 Suzie was a special guest of Blackie & the Rodeo Kings at Ottawa Bluesfest along with Daniel Lanois. She has also toured nationally with Downchild, Stuart McLean’s The Vinyl Café, with ASV (Charlie A’Court, Lloyd Spiegel and Vinnick), the John McDermott Band and she performed for Canadian Peacekeepers in Bosnia and the Persian Gulf. She was also the voice of Tim Horton’s for five years. Her latest album is entitled Fall Back Home.

The Company that produced the critically successful shows of Acoustic Floyd and Acoustic Zeppelin, presents Muskoka’s only Fleetwood Mac show, ACOUSTIC FLEETWOOD MAC! From the Blues origins of the band’s 60s era led by Peter Green, to the era that took the world by storm in the 70s and 80s with its additions of Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, ACOUSTIC FLEETWOOD MAC delivers acoustic remixes of the groups biggest hits, as well as an entire performance of the legendary album Rumours. Two female vocalists and one male vocalist deliver the three-part harmony vocals that we have known to love from Nicks, McVie, and Buckingham. Acoustic Fleetwood Mac’s two guitar players deliver the great guitar work of both Lindsay Buckingham and the late great Peter Green.

The music is executed by Sean Cotton on 6 and 12 string acoustic guitar, foot percussion, and lead vocals; Tamica Herod on lead vocals and hand percussion; Liz Anderson on lead vocals and hand percussion; George Axon on acoustic and electric guitars; Mike Phillips on bass guitar.

SPECIAL TICKETED EVENT

Join us in the Great Hall at the Fleming College Haliburton School of Art and Design for a FREE performance!

Eve Goldberg songs and solid instrumental work combined with her fluid vocals, embrace all the styles she loves – folk, blues, country, bluegrass, old time, and jazz – with equal affection and mastery. Eve is also part of duo, Gathering Sparks with Jane Lewis. Their debut six-song CD was nominated for a 2014 Canadian Folk Music Award for Vocal Group of the Year. Eve and Jane released, All That’s Real, in September 2019. The lead track won a Folk Music Ontario Songs From the Heart award in the singer-songwriter category.

Brenna MacCrimmon musical adventures began over 30 years ago when she set out to study the music of Turkey and the Balkans. Since that time, she has performed in Turkey and abroad as well as numerous ensembles in the US and Canada. Brenna has recorded and has appeared as a guest on many albums and film soundtracks in Canada, the US, and Europe. More recently in Toronto, she performs with Juno and CFMA nominated Turkwaz, sings with ragtime pianist Bill Westcott and runs regular ukulele sessions in her downtown studio.

You will come to listen, and walk away singing. GATHERING SPARKS is the graceful collision of Eve Goldberg and Jane Lewis—musical friends who blend tight harmonies, finely crafted songs, and a love of participatory singing to create an intimate and uplifting experience.

Their inclusive approach embraces folk, pop, blues and gospel influences tastefully played on acoustic guitar, piano, accordion, and ukulele.With their infectious mix of styles and compelling vocal blend, Gathering Sparks has been making some big waves.

Their debut 6-song CD was nominated for a 2014 Canadian Folk Music Award for Vocal Group of the Year, and they have become an audience favourite.

Acoustic Floyd is Muskoka’s only Pink Floyd show. A textured take on the Floyd’s catalogue that reflects some of the music’s seldom thought of attributes. David Gilmour’s lapsteel that slides across a lot of the band’s records. The ever featured female background vocals reminiscent of gospel choirs. The solo saxophone that wails as much as Gilmour’s guitar. Then there’s the acoustic guitar playing singer/songwriter that is Roger Waters, and the early years with Syd Barrett. Acoustic Floyd presents a beautiful twist on the twistedly beautiful music of Pink Floyd.

The band features Sean Cotton on acoustic guitar, lead vocals, and foot drumming; Tamica Herod and Liz Anderson on lead/backing vocals, and percussion; George Axon on lapsteel and guitars, Chris Hess on saxophones, clarinet, bass, and lead/backing vocals; Mike “Lopez” Phillip’s on bass guitar, and accordion.

Join us in the Great Hall at the Fleming College Haliburton School of Art and Design for a FREE performance!

Nick is a guitarist and music educator living in Haliburton with an Honours Degree in Music. He’s also studied the art of guitar-making with Master Luthier, Sergei De Jonge, designing and constructing a concert classical guitar. Nick’s musical style and knowledge spans genres, but his current exploration as a guitarist lie at the intersection of acoustic music, classic and contemporary jazz and progressive rock. He’s an active performer, session musician, supporting musician, and band leader in these styles. A music educator for about fifteen years, Nick’s most recent full length instrumental release, Archtop, is available through Bandcamp, Apple Music & Spotify.

Join us in the Great Hall at the Fleming College Haliburton School of Art and Design for a FREE performance!

Carol Teal and David Joyce delight and engage with original songs of life’s delights and dilemmas! Serious, sensitive and audaciously funny with a side of vaudeville thrown in for good measure (feather boa included) they leave audiences with a tune in their heads and a song in their hearts. Their thoughtful, witty lyrics, tight harmonies and wide variety of instrumentation (guitars, mandolin, banjo, washboard, harmonica & feather boa!) keep audiences engaged, entertained and inspired.

2024 Gooderham Music Festival to feature country music star Genevieve Fisher, local bands and open mic

(Gooderham, ON)  Country music star Genevieve Fisher is set to headline this year’s Gooderham Music Festival on Saturday July 27, which will also feature local bands Gary and the Rough Ideas and Ragged Company. A new open mic session for local artists will kick off the day to make the most of emerging talent in the area.

Organized by the Gooderham Community Action Group, this free event will take place outdoors at the Robert McCausland Community Centre at the corner of Country Roads 503 and 507 in Gooderham. Further details on vendors and scheduling will be announced closer to the date.

Genevieve Fisher has earned seven female artist of the year nominations at the Country Music Association of Ontario music awards as well as numerous nominations for Single of the Year and Songwriter of the year.

Artists wishing to be considered for the open mic session should send an email to gcac503@gmail.com.

For more information contact:

Valerie Dugale, Chair, Gooderham Community Action Group, 416-948-0195, valeriedugale@gmail.com

The Company that brought the sold-out shows of Acoustic Floyd and Acoustic Fleetwood Mac to Hollow Valley Resort, presents Muskoka’s only Led Zeppelin show, ACOUSTIC ZEPPELIN!

From Blues and Old English Folk music influences to Moroccan and Middle Eastern beats and melodies, ACOUSTIC ZEPPELIN is a musical journey around the acoustic world of Zeppelin. Featuring the mandolin, 12 string acoustic guitar, violin and fiddle, along with layered 6 string acoustic and electric guitars, and the signature thunder of John Bonham’s drums, the show presents the Zeppelin songs as they were performed on record and on stage. These instruments are also used to retexture some of Zeppelin’s classic “electric” songs, shape shifting them into the acoustic realm. Two vocalists sing in tandem to deliver this diverse range of material, also bringing to life the recorded harmony vocal performances that were rarely recreated on stage.

The music is executed by Sean Cotton on acoustic guitar, and lead vocals; Tamica Herod on lead vocals; George Axon on 6 and 12 string acoustic guitars, electric guitar, and mandolin; Wayne Ferguson on fiddle and mandolin; Mike Phillips on bass guitar; Rich Howard on drums

Acoustic Floyd is Muskoka’s only Pink Floyd show. A textured take on the Floyd’s catalogue that reflects some of the music’s seldom thought of attributes. David Gilmour’s lapsteel that slides across a lot of the band’s records. The ever featured female background vocals reminiscent of gospel choirs. The solo saxophone that wails as much as Gilmour’s guitar. Then there’s the acoustic guitar playing singer/songwriter that is Roger Waters, and the early years with Syd Barrett. Acoustic Floyd presents a beautiful twist on the twistedly beautiful music of Pink Floyd.

The band features Sean Cotton on acoustic guitar, lead vocals, and foot drumming; Tamica Herod and Liz Anderson on lead/backing vocals, and percussion; George Axon on lapsteel and guitars, Chris Hess on saxophones, clarinet, bass, and lead/backing vocals; Mike “Lopez” Phillip’s on bass guitar, and accordion.

Join us in the Great Hall at the Fleming College Haliburton School of Art and Design for a FREE performance!

Marcus Thompson is an emerging Canadian jazz soloist. The young trumpet player was born and raised in Toronto. Both of his parents were public school music teachers and had Marcus playing violin before he could talk. He later switched to trumpet like his father. His soft sounds are reminiscent of jazz legends Chet Baker and Miles Davis while flying around standards like the great Freddie Hubbard. He will be supported on guitar by Nicholas Russell. See July 18th ‘s entertainment for a bio on Nicholas Russell.

Join us in the Great Hall at the Fleming College Haliburton School of Art and Design for a FREE performance!

Gavin began improvising and acting at age 11 with Montreal youth theatre and has been performing ever since. A founder of Taste That: The County’s Artisanal Comedy Troupe (PEC), Gavin is currently one half of Short Attention Spa, a duo who draw on improv, sketch and stand-up to deliver smart comedy and unexpected laughs. A stand-up comedian, musician and beekeeper, he teaches improv classes for The ROC Youth Centre, Prince Edward County Arts Lab and The County Comedy Project. Gavin runs improv drop-in classes in Picton and coaches improv techniques for personal relationships, professional advancement and team building.

TICKET PRICES Friday Night $25 (Less $5 for HBBS Members)
Saturday $75 (Less $5 for HBBS Members)
Weekend Package $90 (Less $5 for HBBS Members)
Purchase your ticket NOW by e-transferring desired ticket purchase price(s) to highlandsbbs@gmail.com with a note in the message field of your name(s) and ticket details.

Schedule Band
FRIDAY AUGUST 23, 2024
7:30-8:30 Erin McCallum Duo
8:45-10:00 Erin McCallum Band

SATURDAY AUGUST 24, 2024
Band #1 – 11:00-11:50 Chuckee Zehr
Band #2 – 12:10-1:00 Cheryl Lescom & The Tucson Choir Boys
Band #3 – 1:20-2:10 Matt Weidinger & The Tonewheels
Band #4 – 2:30-3:20 B&B Blues Band
Band #5 – 3:40-4:30 Glenn Marais & Mojo Train
Band #6 – 4:50-5:40 Jim Dan Dee
Band #7 – 6:00-6:50 The Smoke Wagon Blues Band
Band #8 – 7:10-8:10 Rosie’s Smokehouse Deluxe
Band #9 – 8:30-10:00 Hogtown Allstars

TICKET PRICES Friday Night $25 (Less $5 for HBBS Members)
Saturday $75 (Less $5 for HBBS Members)
Weekend Package $90 (Less $5 for HBBS Members)
Purchase your ticket NOW by e-transferring desired ticket purchase price(s) to highlandsbbs@gmail.com with a note in the message field of your name(s) and ticket details.

Schedule Band
FRIDAY AUGUST 23, 2024
7:30-8:30 Erin McCallum Duo
8:45-10:00 Erin McCallum Band

SATURDAY AUGUST 24, 2024
Band #1 – 11:00-11:50 Chuckee Zehr
Band #2 – 12:10-1:00 Cheryl Lescom & The Tucson Choir Boys
Band #3 – 1:20-2:10 Matt Weidinger & The Tonewheels
Band #4 – 2:30-3:20 B&B Blues Band
Band #5 – 3:40-4:30 Glenn Marais & Mojo Train
Band #6 – 4:50-5:40 Jim Dan Dee
Band #7 – 6:00-6:50 The Smoke Wagon Blues Band
Band #8 – 7:10-8:10 Rosie’s Smokehouse Deluxe
Band #9 – 8:30-10:00 Hogtown Allstars