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October 2, 2026October 2, 2026 Sunonline/Orillia Arts Orillia, City of Orillia, Creative Nomad Studios, Culture Days, Green Haven, Mariposa Folk, Mariposa House Hospice, Nate Mills, North Simcoe Arts, OCB, OMAH, Opera House, Orillia Concert Association, Orillia Jazz Festival, Orillia Public Library, Orillia Youth Centre, Peter Street Fine Arts, St. Paul's Center

I know it early to be talking about Christmas stuff, you won’t find any other olde phart more uppity about seeing anything related to Christmas before December 1. But…

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September 26, 2026September 27, 2026 Sunonline/Orillia Arts Orillia, Bleeker, City of Orillia, Creative Nomad Studios, Gordon Lightfoot, Lightfoot Band, Lightfoot Days, Mariposa Folk, Mariposa House Hospice, OMAH, Opera House, Orillia Concert Association, Orillia Public Library, Peter Street Fine Arts, Royal Canadian Legion Branch 34, St. Paul's Center

ShareBy John Swartz Saturday, September 26 at 7 p.m. at the legion Nate Mills headlines a show that also includes

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September 2, 2026September 2, 2026 Sunonline/Orillia Aqua Theatre, Arts Orillia, Bleeker, Cellar Singers, Chamber of Commerce, City of Orillia, Cloud Gallery, Creative Nomad Studios, Downtown Orillia, Fred Larsen, HCC, Leacock Museum, Mariposa Arts, Mariposa Folk, Mariposa House Hospice, NSA, Old Dance Hall Players, OMAH, Opera House, Orillia Youth Centre, OSB, Peter Street Fine Arts, Pirate Party, Port of Orillia, Royal Canadian Legion Branch 34

Early out of the gate on September 19 is the Orillia Silver Band. For the third year running they are starting their concert season with guest pianist Kyung-A Lee.

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Remembering Fred

September 1, 2026September 1, 2026 Sunonline/Orillia Arts Orillia, City of Orillia, HCC, Mariposa Arts

This community lost a good man, a great man.

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July 31, 2026August 1, 2026 Sunonline/Orillia Aqua Theatre, Arts Orillia, Bleeker, City of Orillia, Cloud Gallery, Creative Nomad Studios, Mariposa Arts, Mariposa Folk, NSA, OMAH, Opera House, Orillia Youth Centre, Peter Street Fine Arts, Royal Canadian Legion Branch 34, Scottish Festival, St. Paul's Center

ShareBy John Swartz The North Simcoe has two things of note to talk about. First they announced the winners of

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May 20, 2026May 20, 2026 Sunonline/Orillia Arts Orillia, Bleeker, City of Orillia, Cloud Gallery, Creative Nomad Studios, OMAH, Opera House, Orillia Vocal Ensemble, Orillia Youth Centre, OSB, Peter Street Fine Arts, St. Paul's Center

ShareBy John Swartz Arts Orillia and the Chippewas of Rama have their annual Gathering storytelling festival this week. It’s changed

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April 17, 2026April 17, 2026 Sunonline/Orillia Arts Orillia, Bleeker, City of Orillia, Creative Nomad Studios, Mariposa Arts, Mariposa Folk, OCB, OMAH, Opera House, Orillia Secondary School, Orillia Youth Centre, Peter Street Fine Arts, Roots North, St. Paul's Center

Sunday April 19 there will be a concert at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian on the occasion of organist Marshall Martin’s retirement.

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April 9, 2026April 9, 2026 Sunonline/Orillia Arts Orillia, City of Orillia, Creative Nomad Studios, Mariposa Arts, Mariposa Folk, OCB, Opera House, Orillia Concert Association, Orillia Youth Centre, OSB, Peter Street Fine Arts, Roots North

Kevin has another doozy lined up for June. The Weber Brothers along with the Ronnie Douglas Band and Andrew Alli & Josh Small have concert on the 13th.

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March 5, 2026March 5, 2026 Sunonline/Orillia Arts Orillia, Cellar Singers, City of Orillia, Creative Nomad Studios, Lance Anderson, Lightfoot Band, Lightfoot Days, Mariposa Arts, Mariposa Folk, OCB, OMAH, Opera House, Orillia Youth Centre, OSB, Peter Street Fine Arts, St. Paul's Center

ShareBy John Swartz The spring concert season has arrived with three this weekend and more later in the month. Arts

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January 17, 2026January 17, 2026 Sunonline/Orillia Arts Orillia, Bleeker, City of Orillia, Creative Nomad Studios, Mariposa Arts, Mariposa Folk, NSA, Old Dance Hall Players, OMAH, Opera House, Orillia Concert Association, St. Paul's Center, Zachary Lucky

ShareBy John Swartz First a brief note about missing a column last week. As I was sitting down to write

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