Shining Light Where It's Needed
The Orillia Jazz Festival is next week. The main event(s) are Saturday, October 19 at the Opera House. The afternoon gig is with Brassworks, Autorickshaw, The Orillia All-Star Jazz Band and the All-Star Vocal Ensemble.
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ShareBy John Swartz The big event this weekend is the Orillia Youth Centre fundraising concert with Matchedash Parish Saturday evening
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Friday night a series of fundraising concerts for the Orillia Youth Centre starts at Creative Nomad Studios.
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Once again festival organizers chose and assembled a lineup order that works. As someone mentioned, ‘I don’t know half these acts,’ but it doesn’t matter if it turns out you like what they’re serving.
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The Port of Orillia was recently featured on an episode of Global TV’s Water Ways show. Lafontaine said the success in operating the port and their events go hand in hand.
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Of note, Mississaga and Peter Streets will be closed Saturdays from 5 to 11 p.m. all summer.
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The show is a re-staging of the 2022 festival opener. Lance chose music which would have been played at the festival during its previous 60 years and did it in 60 minutes. This time he’s added 30 more minutes of music.
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ShareBy John Swartz Thousands of people were out Saturday to see all the shiny cars on display at the annual
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So while some of us are reminded of our age by the passing of great musicians, are effected with the knowledge they’ll never get to hear new or old music performed by the departed again, we should celebrate we were alive at a time when they also walked the rock and let the memories leave us smiling.
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