This year's Peterborough Folk Festival takes place August 22nd to 24th, and features another stellar lineup. See the poster below for the list of musicians performing, and go to their website for more deets on locations, bands and times.
Local talk sports radio station EXTRA 90.5 FM is trying to bring RUSH here to play Peterborough. They've launched a "BRING RUSH 2 PTBO!" Indiegogo campaign and are nearing $4,000 already of their $253,000 goal. They're basically selling 3,900 tickets to a show that doesn't exist yet to convince them to play here. If you give to their campaign, it's zero risk. "Credit cards are only charged if the show sells out, and full refunds if the band doesn't play," according to their Indiegogo page. Learn more about the campaign here.
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For the chance to win 2 VIP Blue Rodeo tickets to their special August 8th concert for Trent University's 50th Anniversary at Peterborough Memorial Centre—including the chance to meet the band, get an autograph, and have your photo taken with them—simply "Like" our Facebook page. (If you already "Like" us, you're automatically entered in contest.) Your seats will be right on the floor!
We'll be picking a winner in the next couple weeks!
So "Like" us now to enter!
And congrats Trent, you are indeed looking beautiful at 50!
[UPDATE July 10th: You know what, this contest is so much fun that we want to give away another pair of Tegan and Sara tix as well! So now we're giving away 2 pairs of tix! Deets below on how to enter!]
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Super indie rock duo Tegan and Sara are playing Peterborough Musicfest Wednesday, July 23rd at 8 pm, and it's expected to be a HUGE crowd. We're giving away a pair of VIP tickets for you to sit in our PTBOCanada.com seats (we're a proud sponsor of Musicfest) up near the front. For the chance to win, all you have to do is "Like" us on our Facebook page (if you already are a fan of our page, you already have a chance to win!). We'll be picking a winner from our PTBOCanada Facebook page the week of July 14th.
It's another awesome, diverse lineup put together by organizer Jonathan Hall for the 4th Annual Hootenanny on Hunter, which takes place Saturday, August 9th, and is a free event. We're stoked! Full lineup and more info in this poster below...
This song produced by Blue Rodeo's Greg Keelor was recorded live in downtown Peterborough. It's from Melissa Payne's High and Dry album.
image via @SerenaRyder on Twitter
BIG news posted to the Five Counties Facebook page today (June 16th): Serena Ryder is playing The Venue on Thursday, July 3rd!
She's doing the concert in support of Five Counties! Tickets go on sale this Thursday (June 19th) at 10:00 a.m.
It wiill be an amazing night for amazing cause.
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Peterborough musician Chris Culgin is releasing a new album It's Only Time June 5th, with the launch party that night at The Gordon Best Theatre on Hunter Steet. Culgin will be kicking off a two-month Canadian tour this summer, with his backing band that includes Brandon Humphrey on electric guitar, Rob Foreman on upright bass, and Matt Greco on drums. The band is featured on the cover of this month's The Wire MEGAzine. Have a look at the excellent new video released in support of the album. Directed by Michael Morritt, it was filmed at locations all over town.
Jason Dunn (photo via his Twitter page)
Jason Dunn lives in New York City—the "second greatest city in the world," he says—but wrote this song for his first love, Peterborough, the city he grew up in and to which he often returns to visit family and friends. "I love it more than a friend," Jason jokes at the beginning of the video.
Goes to show once again you can take the person out of the Peterborough, but you can't take the Peterborough out of the person. Ever.
Have a listen yourself below to Jason's song "Peterborough"...
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This was filmed at The Spill by Jeremy Kelly...
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