Rita MacNeil - Singer/Songwriter
Date: June 2nd, 2010
Show Time: 7:00pm
Tickets - $50.50
It's not very often an entertainer can sit in an audience and see herself perform. Rita MacNeil had that opportunity on an August night in 2000. On that summer evening she attended the Live Bait Theatre in Sackville, N.B., for a performance of Flying On Her Own. It told MacNeil's life story through her songs. And while she enjoyed the attention the production gave her career, she said, "I didn't think the story was earth-shattering, just something you could pretty well put anyone into. It was about one person, but so many of us could be there."...read more
Sunparlour Players - Rock / Alternative / Folk
Date: June 18th, 2010
Show Time: 8:00pm
Tickets - $20
"One of our own!" One of the band members, Dennis van Dine, is from Haileybury and opening for the Sunparlour Players is Mark Bradford, of Punch Me Hard and Sabrina Roberts. This is an opportunity for the Classic to showcase "one of our own" on our stage!!"
TORONTO - This May 19, 2009, the Sunparlour Players release their sophomore album Wave North on the Outside Music label. While the word 'sunparlour' paints a picture of a warm front porch solarium, the nod is in fact to the Sunparlour district of Canada - the southernmost mainland of the country, the largest growing climate in Canada and the place where the band of this name began...
Known for their intense celebration of a live show ("a must see!!" - CBC 3) the Sunparlour Players continue to bring their unique sound to the masses. Come out and see for yourself...read more
Classic Albums Live - The Beatles - The White Album
Date: July 8th, 2010
Show Time: 8:00pm
Tickets - $30 plus HST adv, $35 plus HST door
Remember when you used to listen to an entire album? Classic Albums Live does. For the first time in popular music, the greatest albums from the 60s and 70s are recreated live on stage, note for note- cut for cut.
"This has never been done before," says series producer, Craig Martin. "There's a real thirst to hear these albums performed start to finish. For many of us this is the music we grew up with - the soundtrack of our lives."...read more
