Festival Hall Centre for the Performing Arts

Cracking up the Capital Comedy Festival Returns with six legends!! All I support of Carefor. Acts include your host David Brennan with Big Daddy Tazz, Kyle Brownrigg, Lisa Baker, Derek Seguin and Fiona O'Brien.

Crackin up the Capital Comedy Festival in support of Carefor is excited to announce that Mary Walsh will be joining us in Pembroke! All details at crackup.ca Tickets will sell out quickly!

The Rolling Stones Tribute and the U.K. Invasion Tribute bands team up for this double-header performance! Reproducing the greatest hits of some U.K. legends playing British hits followed by an absolutely incredible note-for-note recreation of The Rolling Stones most iconic live performances!

Neil Young is one of the most recognizable and enduring figures in modern music history.

The combination of his totally unique voice, his deeply personal lyrics along with the wide range of instrumentation that he employs in creating his music makes for one of the most distinctive and compelling sounds in the world of popular music.

With a focus on Neil's younger days, 'After The Gold Rush' brings the closest sonic and visual performance to the real experience available. It’s all there...the voice, the sound, the songs and the sights.

In theatre settings, an 'After The Gold Rush' show includes awesome 3D visual elements bringing to life the psychedelia of the early 1970's west coast epoch. A virtual musical walk through of a very important time in popular music that should not be missed!

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL APRIL 1ST 2023.

Pianist Frederic Lacroix returns to play Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.4 Also featured, Mozart's overture The Marriage of Figaro and Schumann's Symphony No.3 in E flat.

Tickets On Sale November 25th!

Canada's stand-out amongst ‘stand-ups', award-winning comedian RON JAMES has been selling out theatres for over 20 years with his marathon, side-splitting performances. Marshalling a comedian's eye for satire and a writer's ear for language, Ron takes his audience on a breath-taking, non-stop roller coaster ride, cutting a wide swath through contemporary culture with a razor-sharp wit, uncompromising standard and unique, poetically honed delivery.

"Utterly Brilliant" - Ottawa Sun; "a man of a million words and a million laughs ... genius" - Globe & Mail; "a unique brand of funny all his own" - Winnipeg Free Press; "fits of helpless laughter" - Halifax Chronicle Herald; "hysterically funny ... at the top of his game" - Toronto Star; "gut-busting, knee-slapping funny" - Ottawa Citizen, "funniest man in Canada" - Victoria Times-Colonist; "a wheezing, snorting, chortling, gasping night of hilarity" - Edmonton Sun; "fast, funny and smart" - Montreal Gazette; "simply the best" - Toronto Sun; "thunderous standing ovation" - Saskatoon Star Phoenix.

Along with five seasons starring in his own series, "The Ron James Show", his record breaking nine critically acclaimed one-hour comedy specials fast became a New Year's Eve viewing tradition for millions of Canadians. Not to be sidelined by the pandemic, he capitalized on lockdown after lockdown and wrote his first book, ‘All Over the Map: Rambles and Ruminations from the Canadian Road', released by publishing giant Penguin-Random House, September 28th. With the light looking brighter every day at the end of the tunnel, Canada's #1 road warrior is back where he belongs: live onstage delivering laughs face to face to audiences sitting shoulder to shoulder, coast to coast clear cross the Big Wide Open!

Reserved seating tickets for Ron James - Back Where I Belong are $62.00 plus HST and ticketing convenience fee), go on sale Friday, Nov. 25 at noon and are available from the box office listed below.

Showtime is 7:30pm. Festival Hall Centre for the Arts - Box Office: 613 735-2182 or online www.festhall.ca

For more info, pics & comedy clips check out www.ronjames.ca​​​​​​ or www.shantero.com

Free Event! LCBO Licenced Event

Tributes to Roy Orbison, Connie Francis, Motown, & Elvis Presley

"Legends Show" brings you some of North America's most exciting performers live on stage. Accompanied by the “Rockin’ Royals Band”, this show will feature the most incredible Tributes to Roy Orbison, Connie Francis, Elvis Presley, and Motown.

Performing as Roy Orbison, Jesse Aron, who hails from the State of Wisconsin, is recognized as one of USA’s top Roy Orbison Tribute performers. With his effortless voice and uncanny resemblance to Roy, Jesse will take you back in time with such hits as ‘Crying’, ‘Pretty Woman’, ‘Only The Lonely’, ‘Running Scared’, and many more of your favourites.

Canada’s Tribute Queen, Amberley Beatty, returns to the stage with her truly remarkable Tribute to American Pop Singing Icon, Connie Francis. Idolized by millions of fans around the world, Francis is best known for her hits such as ’Where the Boys Are’, ‘Who's Sorry Now’, ‘Your Cheatin’ Heart’, ‘Stupid Cupid’, Lipstick on Your Collar’.

The stars of "Motown Soul", Cathy and Marlene known as The Tonettes, have been blessed with power, sensitivity, and vocal energy. This sensational trio will be performing a variety of songs from the music of Diana Ross and The Supremes, Aretha Franklin and many others. A performance not to be missed.

Pete Paquette is a World-class Elvis Tribute Artist and highly regarded as one of the top Elvis performers in the business today. Known for captivating his audiences through his incredible voice, high energy, charisma, and playful spontaneity with his audiences, this multi-award winning performer will leave you wanting more.

Promo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=granK9A4fxg

Canada's premier Heart Tribute - Just Heart - and DIXIE CHICKS Tribute Band! Mother's Day Concert. Come rock it out with the ladies! Starring Rick Wharton as "Earl" (:

We are thrilled to welcome Susan Aglukark to our 2nd annual Downie/Wenjack Legacy Event! Other artists will be listed soon.

JUNO AWARD WINNER

“Susan Aglukark is truly one of Canada’s most significant cultural treasures. Apart from being a beautiful singer and powerful songwriter, she provides a significant view to the culture of our northern communities. She is an inspiration to humanity.” – Deane Cameron

Founder of the Arctic Rose Foundation (2016-Present) Board Member-Governor Generals Performing Arts Award (2016-Present) Board Member-The Hnatyshyn Foundation (2016-Present) Arctic Inspiration Prize Selection Committee Chair of Arctic Children and Youth Foundation (2008-2011) Founding Board Member of National Aboriginal Literacy Foundation (2004-2007) Advisor on the Collateral Damage Project

Susan has held command performances for: HRH Queen Elizabeth (twice) Canadian Prime Ministers Jean Chrétien and Brian Mulroney President of France, Jacques Chirac. Nelson Mandela Governor General of Canada Adrienne Clarkson Her Excellency the Countess of Wessex

Awards include: 2022 Humanitarian Juno Award Presented by Music Canada 2016: Awarded the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement 2012: Awarded Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal 2004: Appointed Officer of the Order of Canada 2004: winner, Juno Award for Aboriginal Recording, Big Feeling 1995: winner, Juno Awards for Best New Solo Artist and Best Music of Aboriginal Canada Recording, Arctic Rose Northerner of the Year – 1995 First-ever Aboriginal Achievement Award in Arts & Entertainment Canadian Country Music Association’s (CCMA) Vista Rising Star Award Native American Music Award Canadian Aboriginal Music Award Honorary Doctor of Laws, The University of Toronto Honorary Degree in Law from the University of Alberta Honorary Degree in Law from Calgary University Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Lethbridge University

BIOGRAPHY

During a career that has spanned more than 25 years, Susan Aglukark’s journey as a singer-songwriter has led her to reflect on who she is, where she comes from and the importance of discovery – discovery of history, culture and self.

Susan is the first Inuk artist to win a Juno (3) and a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for lifetime artistic achievement, she is an officer of the Order of Canada, holds several Honourary Doctorate degrees and has held command performances; but Susan also acknowledges the path has not been easy.

“Here I was, living a life I never imagined, but I was struggling to understand who I was. There was no opportunity growing up to learn about who we were, the Inuit, from our own perspective. In essence, we were institutionalized by being told who we were, how we would live and when you are told a story for so long, you learn to believe it,” explains Susan.

During the past 25 years of reflection and songwriting, Susan kept coming back to one area of profound knowing, the Inuit are an extraordinary people deeply grounded in a culture forged by their Ancestors, their journey is what shaped them.

“Their life experience is the foundation on which our precepts of determination, adaptability and love for life are built, they began the journey to our present-day Nunavut.” (Susan’s Walrus Talks comments)

“The conversations around reconciliation have provided an opportunity to begin to re-write our narrative. The Indigenous people in Canada come from highly organized societies built on knowledge, process and organization – without which none of us would have survived.”

For Susan, art has played a significant role in her healing journey and in the re-writing of her narrative, she believes it plays an important role for indigenous youth who are dealing with contemporary identity issues today. “Our children and youth are strong and resilient, they still believe very strongly in their culture, in Inuit or Indigenous culture, and they are still fighting every day to find their place.”

“They need to be anchored to an identity and so much of those connections are in our ancestors and their stories and we have a duty and a responsibility to engage our children and youth in the process of connecting with and helping them write those stories.”

Susan has always been very open about how her own fears and personal trauma that left her disillusioned and disconnected. Born in Arviat, Nunavut, her parents formative years were in traditional Inuit culture, her formative years were not traditional and were somewhat disconnected from her culture.

Despite the success she experienced in the 1990s, by 1998 she was suffering from post-partum depression and found herself in a dark place in need of time to reflect and heal, what followed was the several years of reflection, healing and making deeper commitments to her singing/songwriting career. And so began what Susan calls her “awakening”. As she learned more about her culture and the strength and resilience of the Inuit who have been on this land for over 5,000 years, Susan was also engaging her own “inner artist” and falling in love with performing, sharing stories and singing.

“We have an extraordinary culture and an extraordinary past, we must embrace the opportunity to learn about our very own heroes, write those culture bridges and reframe who we are in today’s world.”

Through her music, Susan continues to share her experiences as an Inuk growing up in Nunavut, as well as the challenges faced by northern communities and Indigenous youth.

Susan is actively involved in various projects to bring food and support to northern communities and in 2016 the Arctic Rose Foundation gained charitable status with a focus on helping youth in the north through art and other engaging creative projects.

Back by popular demand! Our favourite musical tribute to ACDC. Tickets sell out quickly for this show so get yours today!