This Week In Art/Culture/Entertainment
ShareBy John Swartz The Orillia Concert Band is playing Saturday, March 8 at St. Pal’s Centre at 7:30 p.m. Christina
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Remembering Suds Sutherland: September 24, 1945 – December 26, 2024
Suds was selfless. You almost have to be to be a music teacher. There are too many students stuck on a passage that need help, or can’t get over a hurdle developing a playing technique – always after office hours.
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This Week In Art/Culture/Entertainment
ShareBy John Swartz As I was sitting in my usual spot (last one before the great outdoors, it’s about as
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This Week In Art/Culture/Entertainment
The evening concert (7:30 p.m.) has the Orillia Vocal Ensemble and Alex Teske as guest performers.
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ShareBy John Swartz So the first Christmas concert happens Saturday evening, November 30 and it snowed for the first time
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A Bunch Of Reviews
This concert came right in the middle of Lightfoot Days, so my plan was to stay until they did the first piece of the second half.
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This Week In Art/Culture/Entertainment
Derick Lehmann’s Halloween light show and music show runs Friday and Saturday nights. It’s on Dale Drive (Couchiching Point). There is no charge, but he is collecting donations for the Sharing Place Food Bank.
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This Week In Art/Culture/Entertainment
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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This Week In Art/Culture/Entertainment, Part 2
… there was one watering hole for every 150 people (for comparison that would be 213 bars today)
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If you are near a radio July 1 tune in to the CBC Radio One from noon to 2 p.m. to hear the Gordon Lightfoot Tribute concert that happened at Massey Hall in May.
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