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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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February 21, 2026February 21, 2026 Sunonline/Orillia City of Orillia, Cloud Gallery, Creative Nomad Studios, Hibernation, Mariposa Arts, Mariposa Folk, ODAC, OMAH, Opera House, Orillia Youth Centre, Peter Street Fine Arts

ShareBy John Swartz Saturday evening February 21, the Mariposa Folk Festival has their annual Gospel and Blues concert at the

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Don’t Look Now, But Things Could Get A Little Murky

February 7, 2026February 7, 2026 Sunonline/Orillia City of Orillia, Mariposa Arts, Opera House

…here the conflict is seeing danger and reacting to those in the rest of their world who carry on like it’s just another Tuesday.

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February 5, 2026February 5, 2026 Sunonline/Orillia City of Orillia, Creative Nomad Studios, Mariposa Arts, Mariposa Folk, NSA, OMAH, Opera House, Orillia Concert Association, Peter Street Fine Arts

I get the sense all the activity resembles a Monty Python soccer sketch more than it does a well-coordinated team.

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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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December 6, 2025December 6, 2025 Sunonline/Orillia Arts Orillia, Cellar Singers, City of Orillia, Green Haven, Mariposa Folk, OCB, OMAH, Opera House, Orillia Concert Association, OSB, Peter Street Fine Arts

ShareBy John Swartz St. Paul’s Centre is the venue for the annual Christmas Prelude concert Saturday December 6 at 7:30

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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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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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