The Wire Megazine – Promising Peterborough Nothing Since 1989

The Concerts

Dreamer – The Supertramp Experience

Oct 17, 2026 8:00 PM Showplace Performance Centre Dreamer: The Supertramp Experience isn’t just another nostalgia run through the old songbook. It’s a full-scale resurrection of one of classic rock’s most distinctive bands — the brainy, […]

Community

Peterborough Artists, There’s Money on the Table — EC3’s 2026 Grant Program Is Open

Making art is one thing. Paying for it is another. For Peterborough artists with a project rattling around in their heads — a record, a show, an installation, a performance, something strange nobody has quite […]

Miss Advice

Miss Advice: September 2026

September is when everyone returns from summer pretending they’ve changed. New routines, fresh goals, cleaner calendars. Give it three weeks. By October you’ll be eating crackers over the sink and avoiding someone you slept with […]

The Interviews

interview: Murray McLauchlan

(February 2020) Murray began writing songs and performing them in his late teens. Hanging around the coffeehouses of Toronto he was also a staple performer on the folk festival circuit where he rubbed shoulders and […]

Music News

Irish Millie Steps Out of the Frame With New Release

Irish Millie has spent most of her life being told, in one way or another, that the world works a certain way. Can You See Me? sounds like the moment she finally decided the world […]

Music News with Dee Draper

Trent Severn Music on the Water w/Jordan Holman Sept 11-17 September 9, 2026
Peterborough's Irish Millie Releases New Album 'Can You See Me?' Featuring Single "Boy At My Funeral" September 8, 2026
SUSAN AGLUKARK New Single "For You" & Concerts. September 3, 2026
"Raise My Fist" by Shy-Anne Hovorka August 31, 2026
ASTRA-Indo-Canadian Rocker - Reclaims Her Power From Abuse on Fearless Single "IDGAF" August 31, 2026

Major Rotation

Ontario’s Music Festivals Are Fighting for More Than an Audience

For decades, the outdoor music festival was one of the simplest promises in entertainment: put a few good bands in a field, sell some tickets, bring in food and beer, and let the crowd make […]

In The Clubs

September at The Crook & Coffer: Trivia, Tunes, Comedy and a Whole Lot of Live Music

September is shaping up to be a busy one at The Crook & Coffer Pub, with the calendar packed with live music, trivia, comedy, karaoke and open-stage nights all month long. Things kick off Tuesday, […]

Comedy

RICO & ROSTRUP: Fill Market Hall (with Song)

Fri, Sep 25 at 07:30 PM Market Hall Rapid’s End Improv presents the infamous Rico & Rostrup, the electrifying, laugh-out-loud improvised musical duo turning audience suggestions into complete comedic gold. Peterborough performers Mark Rostrup and Marc Rico Ludwig […]

Horror Scopes

HorrorScopes: September 2026

ARIESSeptember gives you motivation, ambition and absolutely no patience for anyone moving slower than you. Unfortunately, that’s everyone. You’ll start the month determined to improve your life and end it threatening to improve somebody else’s […]

Indie Spotlight

SJ Riley Is the Comeback Kid of Canadian Indie Pop — and She’s Just Getting Started

You can feel it from the first chord — SJ Riley doesn’t write songs so much as she peels them off her skin. Her voice is both polished and raw, hopeful and haunted, a paradox […]

Local Politics

City Hall says “Build it and they might come.”

Peterborough is preparing to spend somewhere in the neighbourhood of $170 million on a new downtown Multi-Use Sport and Event Centre, and the sales pitch arrives wrapped in all the usual municipal vocabulary: revitalization, tourism, […]

The Arts

42nd Annual KAST Selections Exhibition

July 11, 2026 – October 4, 2026 Art Gallery of Peterborough Our region is rich with talented artists practicing across a range of styles and mediums. From Stoney Lake to Keene, the annual Kawartha Autumn […]

THEATRE

East of the Sun, West of the Moon

September 18-19, 08:00 PM & Sunday 20, 2:30 PMMarket Hall Performing Arts Centre Hollo Circus Productions invites you to an evening of unparalleled artistry with East of the Sun, West of the Moon. This immersive, narrative circus production […]

Dining

Amandala’s: A Love Letter to Excess (with Perfectly Ironed Napkins)

Step into Amandala’s and you’ll feel, immediately, that this is not a place for the casual diner. No, this is where Peterborough comes when it wishes to pretend, however briefly, that it’s Vienna, Paris, or […]