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THE HIP EXPERIENCE
Friday, November 6 • 8:00 PM Market Hall The Hip Experience was formed with a single, daunting mission: to do justice to The Tragically Hip, a band that, in this country, occupies the space somewhere […]
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Join St. James Players as They Go Into The Woods
Into the Woods is a complicated musical, and I was reminded of that while I sat in on a dress rehearsal of St. James Players’ adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s Tony award winner. It’s easy to be […]
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Sabbath Lives – SUPERNAUTS Bring the Thunder to The Pig’s Ear
Saturday Nov 15, 9pm Pig’s Ear Tavern From the dark heart of Peterborough, SUPERNAUTS rise like a thunderhead — heavy, unrelenting, and loaded with Sabbath soul. These guys don’t just play the hits; they summon […]
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Cold Streets, Warmer Hearts: Peterborough’s Homeless Crisis Hits a Breaking Point
(Oct 25, 2025) It’s late October in Peterborough, and the cold’s already got teeth. You can feel it coming off the river, crawling down George Street, cutting through the canvas of the tent encampments that […]
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Ty Wilson – Balancing Originals and Classic Rock Heart
Ty Wilson doesn’t chase fame. He chases music. That means two parallel lives on stage: one as a singer-songwriter crafting honest, road-tested alt-country originals, and the other performing classic rock — including Bob Seger — […]
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Musicfest Honoured with SOCAN’s Licensed To Play Award During Centennial Celebration
At SOCAN’s 35th Annual Awards Gala in Toronto — a night marking the organization’s 100th anniversary — Peterborough Musicfest took home the Licensed To Play Award, a nod to venues and festivals that play by […]
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Peterborough on Two Wheels (Sort Of)
Peterborough’s bike lane strategy reads like a love letter to Dutch urbanism penned by someone who’s never actually been to Amsterdam. There’s an earnestness to it — the kind that produces PowerPoints, not progress. We’ve […]
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Joel Plaskett
Mon, Oct 19 at 08:00 PM Market Hall Joel Plaskett has never seemed all that interested in standing still. For more than three decades, the Nova Scotia songwriter has moved like a bright pinball through Canadian music […]
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RHINESTONE COWGIRLS
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18 • 4:00 PM Market Hall Rhinestone Cowgirls rolls into town with a full-glitter salute to the women who built country music the hard way — with heartbreak, backbone, and enough firepower to […]
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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, […]