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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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January 2, 2026January 2, 2026 Sunonline/Orillia Arts Orillia, Cellar Singers, City of Orillia, Creative Nomad Studios, Mariposa Arts, Mariposa Folk, NSA, OCB, OMAH, Opera House, Orillia Concert Association, Orillia Secondary School, Orillia Vocal Ensemble, OSB, Peter Street Fine Arts

This was the largest version of the OVE that I recall. They, and the next group in question, could use some more male voices.

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December 14, 2025December 14, 2025 Sunonline/Orillia Cellar Singers, Cloud Gallery, Creative Nomad Studios, Mariposa Folk, OCB, OMAH, Opera House, Orillia Concert Association, Orillia Vocal Ensemble, Orillia Youth Centre, OSB, Peter Street Fine Arts

Mark generally gets it right, but he can’t make silk purses out of poor signals handed over to him.

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November 29, 2025November 29, 2025 Sunonline/Orillia Arts Orillia, City of Orillia, Creative Nomad Studios, Mariposa Arts, OCB, OMAH, Opera House, Orillia Concert Association, Orillia Youth Centre, OSB, Peter Street Fine Arts

ShareBy John Swartz The Orillia Museum of Art and History made out like bandits on Wednesday. They scooped up 50

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Huge Crowds For Weekend Christmas Start

November 24, 2025November 26, 2025 Sunonline/Orillia Creative Nomad Studios, Downtown Orillia, Orillia District Chamber of Commerce

The crowd in the downtown looked to be bigger than two years ago when crowds were the largest witnessed (it rained last year).

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November 21, 2025November 21, 2025 Sunonline/Orillia Arts Orillia, Brassworks, Cellar Singers, Chamber of Commerce, City of Orillia, Creative Nomad Studios, Downtown Orillia, Mariposa Arts, NSA, OCB, OMAH, Opera House, Orillia Concert Association, Orillia wind ensemble, Orillia Youth Centre, OSB, Peter Street Fine Arts, St. Paul's Center

The big announcement the youth center’s director, Kevin Gangloff, had last week (the day after the column ran) is that Serena Ryder and Lydia Persaud have a concert at Creative Nomad Studios December 21.

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November 13, 2025November 13, 2025 Sunonline/Orillia Arts Orillia, Cellar Singers, City of Orillia, Creative Nomad Studios, Gordon Lightfoot, Green Haven, Lightfoot Band, Lightfoot Days, Mariposa Arts, North Simcoe Arts, OCB, OMAH, Opera House, Orillia Concert Association, Orillia District Chamber of Commerce, Orillia Youth Centre, OSB, Peter Street Fine Arts, Soldiers' Memorial Hospital Foundation, St. Paul's Center

ShareBy John Swartz What a month this has been so far. Mariposa Arts produced and performed fantastically with Jesus Christ

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Gord Made The Ship Famous, John Tells The Stories Of The People

November 10, 2025November 10, 2025 Sunonline/Orillia Creative Nomad Studios, Gordon Lightfoot, Lightfoot Band, Lightfoot Days, Manticore Books

“I have a chapter in there, The Storm of The Century 1913, it wasn’t. This was truly the storm of the century,” Bacon said.

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October 30, 2025October 30, 2025 Sunonline/Orillia City of Orillia, Creative Nomad Studios, Lightfoot Band, Lightfoot Days, Manticore Books, Mariposa Arts, Mariposa Folk, OMAH, Opera House, Orillia Concert Association, Orillia Recreation Centre, Orillia Youth Centre, Ronnie Douglas, Soldiers' Memorial Hospital Foundation, St. Paul's Center

I have to say, having heard several medleys based on Chicago’s tunes, this one is the best arrangement I’ve heard.

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Barry Keane, Still Having Fun

October 28, 2025October 28, 2025 Sunonline/Orillia Creative Nomad Studios, Lightfoot Band, Lightfoot Days, Opera House

“There’s no end in sight right now. We’re all having a blast and as long as people want to come and hear the songs, we’re going play them for them. Why quit?”

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