We'll be gathering around the ol' piano once again for the annual Seasonal Singalong at Waterford Old Town Hall. As usual we'll be taking a run at everything from Wassails and Wenceslas to Winter Wonderland. This is all about participation and it's always a good time. It's free, but bring a donation of non-perishables or cash for the food bank'

“The artist bears her heart going from strength to strength” -ROLLINGSTONE

“Strong enough to turn the tides” -EXCLAIM!

We are pleased to welcome Canadian Folk Music Award winner, Geneviève Racette to the Old Town Hall stage. Geneviève has emerged as a rising star in both French and English-speaking music scenes across Canada and the United States. She has captivated listeners with her gentle, yet compelling emotional resonance, and garnered impressive industry support through music publications, and national and international radio support. Geneviève has traveled twice to the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity, and was selected among 150 singer-songwriters to work with some of the best songwriters from Nashville (2017).

Geneviève is proud that over half her team involved in the creation of Satellite are woman-identifying musicians and members of the industry. She co-produced Satellite with François-Pierre Lue, and collaborated on many songs with JUNO-nominated Barbra Lica, award-winning songwriter Danielle Knibbe and fellow Québécois singer-songwriter Éric Charland. Genevieve’s new album, Golden, is being released this month.

Performing on the same bill: The Pairs!

This Internationally touring band of celebrated songwriters greet every stage with a genuine, quirky presence and unbottled chemistry. Their sibling harmonies and familial banter quickly connects them to their audience. Whether The Pairs are playing an intimate house concert or a sold out show at a Performing Arts Centre, these classically trained vocalists make it their mission to employ three-part harmony and honest storytelling as the mighty tools that soften and connect us. The Pairs will release their fourth studio album in spring 2025. This record aims to encapsulate the authentic, minimalistic, and acoustic style performances the trio has become known for.

 Tickets: Here

From The Festival of Small Halls website:

Tom Wilson is a Canadian music legend, famed storyteller and visual artist. Wilson’s memoir, Beautiful Scars published by Penguin/Random House has become a national bestseller. In his memoir, Wilson reveals the impact of discovering his indigenous heritage. Musically, Wilson is best known for his work with Blackie & The Rodeo Kings and Lee Harvey Osmond, the latter receiving a 2020 Juno Award for the album "Mohawk.

Schedule of Events

Doors: 7:00 PM 

Show: 7:30 PM

Tickets: Here

From the mountains of Utah to the trenches of Vimy Ridge, Elliott BROOD’s songs have

travelled the gore and glory of history in equal measure for nearly a decade. With the stomp

and thrash of their early albums, Elliott BROOD carved their niche drawing from history and

memory. As heavy and harrowing the past can be, for Elliott BROOD, it is also a generous

companion, giving the gift of appreciation for times of peace and grace.

With Keeper, Elliott BROOD’s seventh album, the trio deals with the past in more personal

terms. The title, which speaks to loyalty and longevity, sets the tone for an album that explores

the strength of conviction, and how that strength is tested, again and again, over time.

Thoughts of worthiness and dedication, and their emotional flip sides, inform a collection that

sees the band exploring those battlefields much closer to home.

From the Polaris Music Prize short listed breakout album Mountain Meadows to the JUNO

Award winning Days Into Years, the well-traveled trio of Mark Sasso, Casey Laforet and Stephen

Pitkin have created a body of work that is at once meticulous and boisterous, substantial and

entertaining.

Tickets: Here

OTH Summer Theatre Camp presents: The Oakwood Dreamers

It’s the last day of school for the oakwood dreamers, a close knit friend group. They’re all very excited for summer, but can’t seem to stay awake in class. When they fall asleep you watch as reality transforms into their wildest dreams.

One ticket - $10 or two for $15

Tickets: Here

OTH Summer Theatre Camp presents: The Oakwood Dreamers

It’s the last day of school for the oakwood dreamers, a close knit friend group. They’re all very excited for summer, but can’t seem to stay awake in class. When they fall asleep you watch as reality transforms into their wildest dreams.

One ticket - $10 or two for $15

Tickets: Here

Waterford Old Town Hall Presents Juno Award winner for Blues Album of the Year.

Blue Moon Marquee

Tickets: Here

Have you ever felt like you don’t belong? Powerless Charlie sticks out like a sore thumb in a school full of superheroes. Smellinator can’t control her powers and forgot to do her Villain 101 homework. Golden Boy won’t follow protocol. And Toxic Sludge is, well, toxic sludge.

When a supervillain attacks the school Charlie must dig deep within herself. She may not be a superhero but she discovers her unique talents can save the day.

The Super Non-Heroes takes a look at friendship, acceptance and discovering yourself.

Tickets: Here

Have you ever felt like you don’t belong? Powerless Charlie sticks out like a sore thumb in a school full of superheroes. Smellinator can’t control her powers and forgot to do her Villain 101 homework. Golden Boy won’t follow protocol. And Toxic Sludge is, well, toxic sludge.

When a supervillain attacks the school Charlie must dig deep within herself. She may not be a superhero but she discovers her unique talents can save the day.

The Super Non-Heroes takes a look at friendship, acceptance and discovering yourself.

Tickets: Here

Have you ever felt like you don’t belong? Powerless Charlie sticks out like a sore thumb in a school full of superheroes. Smellinator can’t control her powers and forgot to do her Villain 101 homework. Golden Boy won’t follow protocol. And Toxic Sludge is, well, toxic sludge.

When a supervillain attacks the school Charlie must dig deep within herself. She may not be a superhero but she discovers her unique talents can save the day.

The Super Non-Heroes takes a look at friendship, acceptance and discovering yourself.

Tickets: Here

The rich complexity of life is the emotional focus of the much-anticipated new album from one of Canada’s most accomplished and harmonious trios – Good Lovelies.

The songs on We Will Never Be the Same, crafted by the Juno Award-winning ensemble of Kerri Ough, Sue Passmore and Caroline Marie Brooks, are as compelling as the engaging vocal harmonies for which the group has been known for the last 17 years as they mine the complex feelings experienced by women who have come to ponder some of the big questions of life.

This new album is both a return to a more elemental, acoustic-based musical platform reaching back to the early days of the Good Lovelies, as well as an immersive emotional experience crafted by three seasoned songwriters who bring their own real-life stories in all their dynamism and messy complexity to the fore.

We Will Never Be the Same is the group’s fifth full-length studio album adding to a widely acclaimed catalogue of recordings that also includes two beloved Christmas releases. It adds to their already popular concert repertoire as they return to tread the boards in venues throughout North America, the U.K., Europe, Australia, and beyond.

It is a testament not only to their artistry, but also their humanity, and is an album that will continue to endear this beloved group to fans of all ages.

We're pleased to welcome Colin Linden back to the OTH stage April 6th 2024 at 7PM.

Opening Act: Conor Gains

Linden’s latest solo album, bLOW, the first outside artist on longtime friend Lucinda Williams’ Highway 20 label distributed by Nashville-based Thirty Tigers, is his 14th in 40 years, but first electric blues release. The title song comes from being stuck inside a flimsy motel after a casino gig somewhere in Oklahoma or Texas as a tornado was about to hit, waiting for the walls to cave in, with his wife, the novelist Janice Powers, providing not only the opening verse quoted above, but the gurgling Hammond B3 organ left to him by his former bandmate, the late Richard Bell, played, in her own words, “like a deranged church lady.”

With a full schedule that includes fronting his other band, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, Linden hasn’t missed a beat during Covid, recording tracks in his 1,000 square-foot, standalone home studio in his backyard, dubbed Pinhead Recorders. The new album features contributions from his lifelong Toronto collaborators, drummer Gary Craig and bassist John Dymond (the three refer to themselves as the Rotting Matadors), as well as Dave Jaques, a former member of John Prine’s band, on bass and Paul Griffiths on drums, who worked on the tracks originally for the movie. The album cover features a picture of Linden at age 22 onstage enraptured in the moment. (Linden says bLOW is the type of album he would have made if the era allowed).

The album’s title came from a drawing of an imaginary album cover done by his young nephew many years ago. Colin claimed, “I figured I’d wait until the right music came along to use the title... and this is it!”

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It’s Impossible to Perfectly Tune a Piano

“A memoir of minds gone out of tune.” – New York Times

The story of 4 brothers told through a theatrical escape into the art and science of piano tuning. James Smith and his brothers have had life-long journeys with OCD, autism, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

Through his piano tuning James discovered the perfect metaphor to process the mental complexities of his family. James shares their personal story – while tuning the Old Town Hall piano beautifully, and imperfectly.

Created and Performed by James Smith


Directed and Developed by Mitchell Cushman

Designed by Nick Blais

An Outside the March Production

Tickets: Here

It’s Impossible to Perfectly Tune a Piano

“A memoir of minds gone out of tune.” – New York Times

The story of 4 brothers told through a theatrical escape into the art and science of piano tuning. James Smith and his brothers have had life-long journeys with OCD, autism, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

Through his piano tuning James discovered the perfect metaphor to process the mental complexities of his family. James shares their personal story – while tuning the Old Town Hall piano beautifully, and imperfectly.

Created and Performed by James Smith


Directed and Developed by Mitchell Cushman

Designed by Nick Blais

An Outside the March Production

Tickets: Here

From Ben:

Hey folks excited to announce I’ll be playing my first home town show in years at the Waterford Old Town Hall December 7th! Going to have Rebekah Hawker opening up the night and a bunch of guests up with me.

Tickets are on sale now Here

Tickets: Here

We have a juicy li’l show announce for ya, Waterfolk! 🍊🍋 Born Ruffians are coming our way this fall! 🤩 November 23, y’all! 🥳🎉

MORE INFO 👇🏼🤓

Great Canadian indie band Born Ruffians formed in Midland, Ontario in 2006. Since then, they've released 8 full length albums and 3 EPs on a number of acclaimed record labels - Warp Records, XL Recordings, Yep Roc Records, Paper Bag Records, and Wavy Haze Records - and become one of our country’s biggest indie rock exports. The group have toured internationally, with Caribou, Franz Ferdinand, Hot Chip, The New Pornographers, and has headlined tours throughout North America, UK, Europe, and Australia, with sold out shows at Music Hall of Williamsburg (NYC), Teragram Ballroom (LA), Lincoln Hall (Chicago), Danforth Music Hall (Toronto) and Moth Club (London). Lead singer Luke Lalonde has seen dozens of Born Ruffians songs synched in TV, advertising, and film productions. Their latest trilogy of albums - 'JUICE' (2020), 'SQUEEZE' (2020), and 'PULP' (2021) - were lauded by NPR Music, Rolling Stone, and American Songwriter for the band's hooky left-of-centre pop sensibilities.

We are thrilled to announce AGIT-POP! is hitting the road to Waterford!👀🔥Music and theatre come together in Pearle Harbour’s fantastic performance artistry-Think Judy at Carnegie: songs, jokes, haunting stories, lots of makeup. Slightly wigged out. It’s gonna be a trip.

Save the date 🗓️ One night only- Nov 15, 8 PM 🎫 oldtownhall.org/tickets 🎫

Let’s pack the house, Norfolk friends! Spread the word throughout the ‘folk!

The Waterford Old Town Hall is delighted to present Sarah Harmer, solo, Friday, October 27.

SARAH HARMER is a multi-award-winning platinum-selling musician, and a beloved Canadian folk/ rock mainstay. She will be performing an intimate, solo concert in the Old Town Hall uppoer theatre. The concert will be seated, FCFS. The Hall is fully accessible, and this is an all ages, licensed event.

Are You Gone? – the first new album in a decade from Sarah Harmer – is a deeply personal and momentous collection of songs motivated by the beauty of life, the urgency of climate crisis, and the question of loss. The first song “New Low” is more than a return to music for the internationally celebrated singer-songwriter and activist: it is a definition of form, a call-for-uprising in the face of global disaster, at the most critical moment for Harmer to raise her voice – one of the most distinctive in Canadian music. The vitality of "New Low," its heedless pace, sharp guitars and exclamatory horns, bely the passage of time since Harmer’s last record, Oh Little Fire (2010). Nearly twenty years from the release of her debut, You Were Here (2000), Are You Gone brings a close to Harmer's period of musical quietude with a rousing artistic statement, rich in detail and emotion, from the heart and for the spirit.

Tickets: Here

Canadian indie rock & reggae royalty BEDOUIN SOUNDCLASH to headline WATERFORD PUMPKINFEST, Oct 14

With extreme pleasure, Waterford Lions Pumpkinfest and Old Town Hall have announced that Bedouin Soundclash will perform on the popular festival’s main stage Saturday October 14. The musical evening also includes performing artists Logan Staats and Alysha Brilla. The unprecedented Pumpkinfest concert lineup is supported by Amplify Norfolk, Norfolk County’s latest music tourism initiative designed to drive overnight stays, extend the shoulder season, and build the County’s brand as a live entertainment destination.

Bedouin Soundclash became a household name after the genre-defying band climbed to the pinnacle of the Canadian music industry, finding themselves widely celebrated at home and abroad with Top 10 radio hits, and on international tours with No Doubt, Ben Harper, The Interrupters, and Thievery Corporation. The band’s acclaimed sophomore release, Sounding a Mosaic, featured the hit single “When the Night Feels My Song” produced by legendary punk-hardcore king Darryl Jenifer of Bad Brains.This earned Bedouin Soundclash their first JUNO Award for Canada’s Best New Group. Their follow-up album, Street Gospels, also produced by Jenifer, earned a Pop Album of the Year JUNO nomination as well as three Much Music Video Award Nominations for “Until We Burn in the Sun.”

Supporting act Alysha Brilla is one of the first self-produced female artists in history to receive a JUNO nomination for her debut album. An accomplished composer, music producer, and singer-songwriter, Brilla draws from her roots as the child of an Indo-Tanzanian musician and a European settler. Her original, soulful melodies weave a colourful tapestry, uplifting audiences, infusing them with a sense of renewal, connectedness and hope. Most recently, Brilla composed the score of Fawzia Mirza's 2023 Feature Film "The Queen Of My Dreams" which premiered at TIFF September 8.

Supporting act Logan Staats is a singer-songwriter and musician from Six Nations who skyrocketed to fame after being chosen from 10,000 hopeful contestants vying for a spot on season one of The Launch. Before an audience of 1.4 million viewers, Staats won, leading him to Nashville and Los Angeles, resulting in the recording of his single “The Lucky Ones” which went on to win the Indigenous Music Award for Best Radio Single, and occupy #1 on the charts in Canada.

The stage and concert grounds are located at 32 Church St. E. Waterford. Gates and VIP bar open at 4:30, with Black Creek Music providing intermittent DJ entertainment. The concert schedule is as follows:

5:30 PM Logan Staats

7:00 PM Alysha Brilla

8:30 PM Bedouin Soundclash

Tickets will be available for purchase Friday, September 22 at 10 AM, at pumpkinfest.com/tickets.

Standing room tickets are $30, seated tickets are $50.

This project is supported in part by the Ontario Arts Council.

For more information about Pumpkinfest, visit pumpkinfest.com or contact Matt Suckel at pumpkinfest@pumpkinfest.com

To learn more about Amplify Norfolk, visit norfolkcounty.ca/business/amplifynorfolk

For concert related inquiries, contact Claire Senko at claire@oldtownhall.org

We are back and bumpin’!! Get ready for the partying to return SEPT 29 🗓️ 🎉🎉

🎵Announcing a very special Pub Night band- AND (maybe!) YOU’RE in it🎤 😏

The Approximators are gonna hit the OTH stage Sept 29 from 7-10! But they are missing ONE THING! A lead singer! 🤩 Join us for a joyous night of live band karaoke, sign up to belt your best K song backed by Hamilton’s fave new band, or just come to hang, dance, and socialize with the best neighborhood peeps ever, while enjoying live music and local libations. 🍺🍷🕺🎶

Live Karaoke with The Approximators

Friday Sept 29, 7-10 PM

All ages, licensed

ADMISSION: Pay What You Can ✅

THE FRIENDS OF FIDDLER’S GREEN AT YOUR SERVICE FOR OVER HALF A CENTURY! - Four fine singers, three songwriters, a brilliant joke teller, the occasional fiery dragon, one Order of Canada, one Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal and one of the longest track records in Canadian Folk Music.

This totally uncategorizable collection has been together, with a few personnel changes, since their birth at Toronto’s Fiddler’s Green coffeehouse in 1971. Nobody, not even the Friends themselves, can predict what might happen during one of their concerts, but it always includes humour, powerful vocal harmony, great musicianship, social commentary and an irresistible urge to dance.

The Friends were recipients of the 2003 Estelle Klein Award, given by the Ontario Council of Folk Festivals for service to folk music in Ontario.

The Friends’ arsenal of instruments generally includes, various concertinas, guitars, mandolins, fiddles, accordions harmonicas, piano, occasional trombone and TWO species of bagpipes!

Alistair Brown

From Paisley, Scotland, for many years a resident of London, Ontario, and now back in the UK. Sings Scottish and English songs, is the man behind the booming bass harmonies, plays melodeon, concertina, mouth-organ and jaw harp, and tells incapacitating jokes.

Grit Laskin

Grit plays a bewildering assortment of instruments, and has some notoriety as a writer of wicked parodies and songs on subjects as diverse as dieting and apartheid. Grit has two solo recordings on the Fogarty's Cove label, one on Borealis, and has played on more records than he can remember, including those of the late, great Canadian songwriter, Stan Rogers. In recent years he has been a major player in the development of Borealis Records into Canada’s premier folk label, and in the emergence of the Canadian Folk Music Awards.

Jeff McClintock

Originally from SW Ontario, Jeff has recently returned to the band after a long globe-trotting absence, including a short spell in a Saudi Arabian jail (don’t ask). Now living a mostly respectable life in Ottawa, his piano playing adds a wonderfully playful character to The Friends tunes and songs. He also plays with Ottawa’s great D’Arcy McGee band.

Ian Robb

An Englishman, now living in Ottawa, Ian’s singing is well-known among afficionados of British music this side of the pond. His occasional spasms of songwriting have produced some gems which have far out-travelled their author. Of course, he doesn’t travel that much...Ian is a member of the much lauded harmony vocal trio Finest Kind, and has recorded about a dozen albums over the years with various band, and as a solo. He was awarded “Best Singer - Traditional” at the 2003 Canadian Folk Music Awards.

Ian Bell

Ian is the most recent addition to the band, having replaced Ian Clark in 2006. He lives in Paris, Ontario, and is celebrated in these parts as the writer of many wonderful songs about rural Ontario and its characters. An alumnus of such great bands as Muddy York and the Dawnbreakers, Ian plays mostly guitar with the Friends, but is also an honoured member of the Gary Larson band from hell, one of those masochistic enough to excel on both bagpipes and accordion.

James Stephens

For this year’s tour, The Friends will be joined by James Stephens on fiddle. Multi-instrumentalist James was the principal songwriter in critically acclaimed pop/roots band “Fat Man Waving”.   James can presently be found performing with traditionally influenced bands and singer-songwriters across Canada. He is also a busy record producer and engineer at his studio in Chelsea, Quebec.

The Friends have released two CDs as a band and many more as individuals

This Side Of The Ocean – 1981 Fogarty’s Cove Records

Old Inventions – 2015 FOFG Productions

Tickets: Here

C.R. Avery brings Victory on East Hastings to OTH

“One of the most original pieces I’ve ever seen.” - Doc Parker 

We are thrilled to welcome multi instrumentalist, genre-bending singer-songwriter, storyteller and performing artist C.R. Avery to the Old Town Hall for the first time!  Vancouver’s own C.R. Avery will hit the OTH theatre on Saturday, June 17th at 7 PM.

After the ghostly ushers from ancient Galway have lead you to your seat and the time-machine-lights of the Theatre have dimmed, you’ll know that you’re about to witness something special going down.

Get ready for a live performance/ film hybrid experience like you’ve never experienced before!

VICTORY ON EAST HASTINGS is a feature film and performance experience that transcends the ordinary ‘night out on the town’, with C.R. Avery narrating the entire tale while performing sections of the score live and direct. This is all showbiz and arresting entertainment with C.R. pulling out all the stops to bring the circus to town, like a traveling opera, or the vaudeville cabarets of yesteryear.

All bets are off, as cinema is about to blur into a live rock and roll revival show. Here comes the ultimate love letter to East Van, with its own embedded ghost story that must be witnessed live.

tickets: Here

What folks are saying about the show:

“Experience the film screening and concert hybrid that's one of the boldest, most off-the-wall and creative things to ever come out of East Van. “  - TJ Dawe 

“I had no idea of what a genius he is, absolutely wonderful; irreverent, funny, sexy, sarcastic, moving, nostalgic, political, and just, really, indescribable.”  - Cameron Hood 

“Go see this show... Seriously just the costume changes alone had me giggling like a schoolgirl. - Priscilla Costa 

“I saw it twice, and I’ll see it again.“ - Fiona Black 

Town Hall Kids Theatre Company presents an original play, first presented in the spring of 2014, and remounted as a fundraiser for Camp Trillium in October, later that year.

"Sidewalk's End is a place you've been, sometime, somewhere in your youth, a place you can only return to in your thoughts. Join Girl Sam, Boy Sam, Bea, Maureen, Katiebug, Jeffy, Stick and the whole gang, as they spend one final, bittersweet summer in their tree-house gathering place making music, memories, and a little bit of mischief."

Run time is just over an hour, including a brief intermission.

Tickets: Here

Town Hall Kids Theatre Company presents an original play, first presented in the spring of 2014, and remounted as a fundraiser for Camp Trillium in October, later that year.

"Sidewalk's End is a place you've been, sometime, somewhere in your youth, a place you can only return to in your thoughts. Join Girl Sam, Boy Sam, Bea, Maureen, Katiebug, Jeffy, Stick and the whole gang, as they spend one final, bittersweet summer in their tree-house gathering place making music, memories, and a little bit of mischief."

Run time is just over an hour, including a brief intermission.

Tickets:Here

Town Hall Kids Theatre Company presents an original play, first presented in the spring of 2014, and remounted as a fundraiser for Camp Trillium in October, later that year.

"Sidewalk's End is a place you've been, sometime, somewhere in your youth, a place you can only return to in your thoughts. Join Girl Sam, Boy Sam, Bea, Maureen, Katiebug, Jeffy, Stick and the whole gang, as they spend one final, bittersweet summer in their tree-house gathering place making music, memories, and a little bit of mischief."

Run time is just over an hour, including a brief intermission.

Tickets: Here