Events Calendar
Baby Boomers: The Show
Simon B. Cotter and Scott Harris revisit the 50's, 60's and 70's while bringing back the two man comedy team to theatres across North America. Hip, slick, and hilarious with a little bit of music thrown in. Simon and Scott celebrate the fads, events and accomplishments of the "Me" generation.
So drop in, let your hair down, and check out the scene. Your parents would hate it!
This performance proudly sponsored by The Big Brain and The Parry Sound Mall.
Sandra Sabatini
DANTE’S WAR is a tender, dramatic novel, exploring the cost of war on the ordinary people who fought on different fronts: in the vast wasteland of North Africa, and in the green hills of Nazi-occupied Italy. Dante and Angelina, two young lovers who meet on the eve of Dante’s deployment to North Africa, fight to survive the Second World War. While Dante becomes an accomplished mechanic, working on German fighter planes, Angelina contends with the presence of German soldiers in her own small town, and the evil that they introduce into her world. Apart, they must both find the strength to endure, and to stay alive in order to find each other again.
SANDRA SABATINI's fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and journals. The title story from her collection The Dolphins at Sainte-Marie was shortlisted for the Journey Prize.
The Barra MacNeils
This performance is proudly sponsored by Royal LePage: Nicole Boyd and Claudette Boyd, Team Advantage Realty; Horseshoe Pines Marina; and Now That’s Catering.
Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra
An Evening of Motivation with Wendel Clark
As former team captain and one of the most beloved players in Toronto Maple Leafs history, Wendel Clark draws from his experiences to share stories of overcoming obstacles to achieve success. Motivating the audience by expressing how with teamwork, determination, and great leadership you can achieve anything!
Sponsored by Barb Kerr, CFP®, Financial Consultant, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER Professional, Investors Group Financial Services Inc.
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Men of the Sound Spring Concert
The chorus sings ballads, spirituals and upbeat music from a variety of genres.
The concert is on Music Monday. Music Monday is an annual event that brings together thousands of students, musicians, parents and community members across the country to celebrate the gift of music in our lives. Therefore, the choir is welcoming two school age groups to participate in their show.
Their guests for this show are Quatra (a ladies quartet), members of the Northern Lights Dance and St. Peter’s School choir.
The Canadian Tenors
Sorry, this show is SOLD OUT
Fuse the incredibly powerful tenor voices of four talented young men with diverse vocal styles, undeniable charm and international solo success with an eclectic blend of classical and contemporary pop and you have the recipe for one powerhouse group and one of Canada’s most sought-after exports.From Toronto to Tahiti, Vancouver to Vienna, The Canadian Tenors have crisscrossed the globe thrilling millions of music lovers. They have shared the stage with such luminaries as President Bill Clinton, Prime Minister Tony Blair and President Shimon Peres as well as music icons such as John Legend, Wyclef Jean and of course Canada’s musical maestro David Foster.
This performance proudly sponsored by The Wolf's Den
Bill Anderson - A Night with a Legend
This award-winning superstar writer/performer is showcasing both sides of his undeniable talent in “A Night With A Legend,” a live, two-hour concert now touring across the U.S. and Canada. It’s a full-band show with an acoustical sound and feel…a warm, intimate look at both Bill Anderson, the songwriter, and Bill Anderson, the song-stylist and consummate performer.
Join us for a evening of classic country music with one of the true legends of the Grand Ole Opry.
Catherine Gildiner and Judy Fong Bates
JUDY FONG BATES
THE YEAR OF FINDING MEMORY is an elegant and surprising book about a Chinese family's difficult arrival in Canada, and a daughter's search to understand remarkable and terrible truths about her parents' past lives. Growing up in her father's hand laundry in small town Ontario, Judy Fong Bates listened to stories of her parents' past lives in China, a place far removed from their every-day life of poverty and misery. But in spite of the allure of these stories, Fong Bates longed to be a Canadian girl. Fifty years later she finally followed her curiosity back to her ancestral home in China for a reunion that spiralled into a series of unanticipated discoveries. Opening with a shock The Year of Finding Memory explores a particular, yet universal, world of family secrets, love, loss, courage and shame. This is a memoir of a daughter's emotional journey, and her painful acceptance of conflicting truths. In telling the story of her parents, Fong Bates is telling the story of how she came to know them, of finding memory.
JUDY FONG BATES is the author of the critically acclaimed short-story collection China Dog and other Tales from a Chinese Laundry, and the novel Midnight at the Dragon Café, which was the 2007 Everybody Reads selection of Portland, Oregon, and an American Library Association Notable Book for 2006.
CATHERINE GILDINER - AFTER THE FALLS
CATHERINE GILDINER recounts her remarkable coming-of-age in the 1960s with the same wit, candour and exhilarating storytelling that has made Too Close to the Falls a modern classic. When Cathy McClure is thirteen years old, her parents make the bold decision to move to suburban Buffalo in hopes that it will help Cathy focus on her studies and stay out of trouble. But “normal” has never been Cathy’s forte, and leaving Niagara Falls and Catholic school behind does nothing to quell her spirited nature. As the 1960s dramatically unfold, Cathy takes on many personas — cheerleader, vandal, HoJo hostess, civil rights demonstrator — with the same gusto she exhibited as a child working split shifts in her father’s pharmacy. But when tragedy strikes, it is her role as daughter that proves to be most challenging.
CATHERINE GILDINER published her first book in 1999, a humorous memoir of her childhood called Too Close to the Falls. The story is told through the eyes of the young Cathy who, at the age of four, is put to work assisting the delivery man who works for her father’s pharmacy – and other “crazy” stories from her “normal” childhood. The memoir was published in Canada, the United States, England and Australia to wide acclaim, received award nominations and spent more than 70 weeks on Canadian bestseller lists.
George Canyon
George Canyon, Canada’s Country Superstar, brings his national tour to the Stockey Centre stage on Monday, June 21st! We can’t think of a better way to usher in the summer.
You can go ahead and just dance to the music of George Canyon, if that’s what you want. He’s a country neo-traditionalist par excellence, producing music situated somewhere between the bright and studio-tooled Nashville ideal and something a little older, with a voice that can soar with emotion or linger in a heavy bottom-end that feels like a kick in the chest from a faith healer. It’s instant.
When you see the man, with piercing eyes that hang above his square jaw, the star appeal becomes even more obvious, and you remember all those achievements – the string of hits, a shelf-full of Junos and Canadian Country Music Awards, not to mention his rocket-ride to American fame on Nashville Star 2 in 2004, and the subsequent blockbuster albums One Good Friend, and Somebody Wrote Love.
You can find more of George's music videos on his YouTube channel, and even more videos, photos and interviews on his website.
Tickets for George Canyon go on sale to MEMBERS ONLY on February 5th, 2010 at 8:45 pm, and to the General Public on February 19th.
Classic Albums Live: The White Album
The Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts presents Classic Albums Live: The White Album. Classic Albums shows fulfill that wish we all had of hearing our favourite albums, note for note, cut for cut, live. This is not a tribute band, this is an eerily accurate rendition of one of the most acclaimed rock albums of all time.
Lisa Moore
FEBRUARY is the month in 1982 when the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a Valentine's Day storm. All eighty-four men aboard died. February is the story of Helen O'Mara, one of those left behind when her husband, Cal, drowns. It begins in the present-day, but spirals back again and again to the "February" that persists in Helen's mind and heart. In her external life, Helen O'Mara cleans and does yoga and looks after her grandchildren and shakes hands with solitude. In her internal life, she continually revisits Cal.
Here is a novel about complex love and cauterizing grief, about past and present and how memory knits them together, about a fiercely close community and its universal struggles, and finally about our need to imagine a future, no matter how fragile.
Lisa Moore has written two collections of stories, Degrees of Nakedness and Open, as well as a novel, Alligator. Open and Alligator were both nominated for the Giller Prize. Alligator won the Commonwealth Prize, and Open won the Canadian Authors' Association Jubilee Prize for Short Fiction.



