Archive for the ‘Westport Ontario Events’ Category.

Holiday Craft Fair

 

We will be hosting our 5th annual Holiday Craft Fair in the Old Town Hall from 9 am to 2 pm. It will feature crafts, arts, customs items, gifts, decor and much more. Delta’s Royal Canadian Legion (32 William St.) will be having a craft sale the same day. So, come out to Delta and get a 2 for 1 craft sale experience.

 

Date : November 23, 2024

Event location : The Delta Mill Society
Box 172, Delta, Ontario K0E 1G0

Contact : 613-928-2584 (office) or e-mail:  info@deltamill.org

Winter Wreath Making Workshop with Fine Lines Landscaping and Designs

Winter Wreath Making Workshop with Fine Lines Landscaping and Designs

 

Enjoy an evening of creativity, community, and holiday fun while supporting local arts. Book your spot today and leave with a wreath that captures the season’s beauty!

Craft a stunning 20″ wreath customized to your style using an array of dried florals and charming winter decorations.$5 from each ticket is going to support the Westport Arts Council.

Spaces are limited – to reserve now, click on the link below.

 

Date : November 19, 2024 from 6 to 8pm

Event location : St Paul’s Anglican Church – 18 Spring Street, Westport, ON

Contact : westportartscouncil@gmail.com

Wings ‘n Tunes + Open Mic with Shawn McCullough & Friends

 

Shawn McCullough is a Master guitar player/singer/alternative lyricist/showman/songwriter. He has played and toured with Canadian Country star Jason McCoy (The Roadhammers) and has been a part of Telecaster supergroup The Telebastards featuring Steve Piticco, Country Pickin’ Mayhem Band with 2 x 7 time CCMA Guitarists of the Year, Wendell Ferguson and Steve Piticco, as well as a member of DoubleBack with Wade Foster and John Wilberforce. He is highly in demand as a session musician and sideman for his incredible skill, wit and stage presence. He has a solo record to his name “This is Me” and is currently performing with rising CMAO and CCMA nominated Country star Brea Lawrenson!  His latest accomplishments are a series of singles released on Apple Music and Spotify getting lots of airplay on Country Music Radio. Check out “Change”, “Canadian Soldier”, “Sidewalk”, “Never Drinking Again”…more to come.

Hear the next best thing in the local music scene at the Open Mic! You can win a Gift Certificate to The Cove nightly with crowd response AND/OR get your name in the draw for a guitar at the end of each season of Wings ‘n Tunes.

Have a NIGHT out on the town with MUSIC and some mouth watering wings!

Thanks to Nate and everyone at Long and McQuade Music in Kingston, you can win an acoustic electric guitar if you get up and perform a song! Sign a ballot and you are good to go!

Please tip your musicians generously.

 

Date : November 13, 2024 from 5 to 8pm

Event location : 2 Bedford Street
Westport, Ontario K0G 1X0

Contact : Please 613.273.3636 or Email thecoveinnwestport@gmail.com

Ky Anto – The Tunes & Tales Tour ‘24

Ky Anto - The Tunes & Tales Tour ‘24, 21 November | Event in Westport | AllEvents.in

 

Ky Anto is a Canadian born musician, singer/songwriter who’s solo acoustic show, “When Country met Rock”, will take you back to the late 60’s & early 70’s with tales from the road & beyond. Ky has played stages large and small all over the world, from the Troubadour in Hollywood to the Star Club in Hamburg. His music is available on Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, etc via www.kyanto.com #gramparsons #neilyoung #townesvanzandt #merlehaggard #willienelson

 

Date : November 21, 2024 from 6 to 9pm

Event location : The Cove Inn, 2 Bedford St.,Westport, Ontario, Canada

Contact : kyantomusic@gmail.com

The Goddamsels (Alt-Country from Edmonton)

 

Catch alt-country outfit, The Goddamsels from Edmonton as they skid through town Friday, November 8th 2024 5-8pm on another Cross Country Canadian Tour!

The band is playing for a suggested live music cover of $10. Please feel free to be as generous as you feel!

The Goddamsels are an alt-country band from Alberta led by vocalists Mallory Chipman and Freddi MacDougall. Inspired by their prairie origins and grassroots attitudes, The Goddamsels are crafting music by the people, for the people. Their debut EP, Wayward Daughter (2022) explores classic country themes of hardship, heartache, and the power of togetherness, all delivered with a modern edge.

From www.thegoddamsels.com:

The Goddamsels and their new release, Wayward Daughter. Based on their name alone, The Goddamsels aren’t your grandparents’ idea of country music. Formed out of the longstanding friendship between Alberta-based singer/songwriters Mallory Chipman and Frédrique “Freddi” MacDougall, The Goddamsels write songs with strong, empowering messages, blended with elements of folk, pop and traditional country, all tied together by their stunning, instinctive harmonies.

It’s all fully displayed on their six-song debut EP, Wayward Daughter, produced by Juno Award nominee Scott Franchuk (Corb Lund, Del Barber, Mike Plume, Scenic Route To Alaska), and released by Edmonton’s Royalty Records. As the first single, the title track lays out The Goddamsels’ commitment to sisterhood, drawing inspiration from the past—specifically Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris’ Trio project—and present day artists such as First Aid Kit.

According to Mallory, “‘Wayward Daughter’ is a special kind of love song, a long distance love song between two dear friends that I wrote about Freddi and I, while she was living in Montreal and I was in Edmonton.” Freddi adds, “‘Wayward Daughter’ means a lot to me as it feels like our theme song. It was written about our friendship and I think it is special in that there aren’t many songs like it.”

Indeed, adding their own distinctive twist to country music has been a main part of the pair’s motivation from the moment they hatched the plan to create The Goddamsels in 2020 during the height of pandemic restrictions. Fully aware of each other’s musical strengths and prodigious work habits, Mallory and Freddi quickly found a rhythm writing songs remotely, and by the summer of 2021, they were prepared to record five of them over a three-day session with Franchuk and some of Edmonton’s finest players at Riverdale Recorders, with the sixth song completed by year’s end.

“One of the things that makes this record stand out is that we have put a lot of thought into writing and arranging for two lead vocalists,” Freddi says. “We are also proud to be creating space for new narratives in the country music scene with our choice of content and storytelling.”

Mallory, whose past musical endeavours have reached into the jazz and alternative rock realms, agrees that The Goddamsels is a natural progression from the time they first connected in 2015 while singing cover songs with the house band at Edmonton’s Blue Chair Cafe. “On a personal level, roots and country music are styles I’ve explored for fun for a handful of years now, but I didn’t think that I’d ever start a country band! There’s just something so intimate about folk and country music—the guard really comes down, it’s just about the story, the feelings, the imperfections. I think, in a world where there is so much fake news and filtering and auto-tuning, both of us needed a way to connect to the truth again. And that led us to country music.”

The storytelling aspect of Wayward Daughter is certainly on par with its dynamic performances. Mallory points to the song “Rollanda,” which she wrote as a tribute to much-loved Edmonton jazz singer Rollanda Lee, who passed away in 2020. For Freddi, a personal highlight is “Take Care,” a song about finding the courage to reach out for help during your darkest moments. Both of them underscore “See You Next Time,” a song that brought them closer together with its theme of strengthening family ties through coping with grief. Conversely, projected single “Sorry” makes a powerful statement about personal accountability, backed up by its pop-savvy arrangement.

In Freddi’s view, “We are starting to really settle into ‘our sound.’ We initially brought in songs we wrote individually and I feel that we are leaning more heavily into co-writing.” Mallory agrees, adding, “Being in a band with two leaders has been such a beautiful process. Rather than it feeling like we’re stepping on each other’s toes, we’ve found a synergy working together when it comes to co-writing and the behind the scenes work. We’ve come a long way since our bar band days, and have evolved creatively to hold our own as songwriters and performers.”

 

Date : November 8, 2024 from 5 to 8pm

Event location : 2 Bedford Street
Westport, Ontario K0G 1X0

Contact : 613.273.3636 or e-mail: thecoveinnwestport@gmail.com

Musician’s Circle

ABC Hall

 

This event is running from 4 January 2024 until 19 December 2024. It is next occurring on October 31, 2024 7:00 pm.

Thursday: 7:00 – 10:00 p.m.

Cost: $5 at the door towards hall maintenance

Play and sing along with fellow musicians.

All musicians and all genres of music (country, jazz, blues, folk, easy listening, blue grass) are welcome.

A fun learning and networking venue.

 

Date : Nov.7,14,21,28,2024

Event location : ABC Town Hall – 3166 Bolingbroke Road, County Road 36, Maberly, ON K0H 2B0

Contact : Contact Dave Pollard at (613) 273-2464 or dpollard@kingston.net

Original Thursdays with Shane Murphy

 

Experience Shane Murphy of Montreal. I true performer with soul to burn. Live on The Cove stage Thursday, November 7, 2024 7-10pm, $15 Cover.

Shane Murphy channels an eclectic range of influences into a sonic identity that’s earned him a diverse and rapidly growing fanbase across a slew of acclaimed releases and performances.  A lifelong musician, Murphy’s gritty, genre-bending signature sound has seen him become a legend in his hometown of Montreal, QC and beyond. A veritable master of rock, blues, funk and reggae, Murphy has shared the stage with many A-list artists including: Adele, Tedeschi Trucks Band, The Allman Brothers, Buddy Guy, Steel Pulse and Sam Roberts Band.

 

Date : November 7,2024 from 7 to 10pm

Event location : 2 Bedford St

Contact : please call 613.273.3636 or visit www.shanemurphyofficial.com

Gentle Yoga

 

This event is running from 10 September 2024 until 26 November 2024. It is next occurring on October 29, 2024 9:00 am. 

Fall 2024 classes with Deborah Nordstrom commence on Tuesday, September 10, for 12 weeks, until November 26.

 

Date : Nov.5,12,19,26,2024

Event location : 3166 Bolingbroke Road, County Road 36, Maberly, ON K0H 2B0

Contact : (613) 273-5717 or e-mail info@abchall.ca

Advice on Wills and Power of Attorney – Advocate Centre for the Elderly (ACE)

Advice on Wills and Power of Attorney - Advocate Centre for the Elderly (ACE), 5 November | Event in Westport

 

Get expert advice on wills and power of attorney at ACE – perfect for anyone looking to plan ahead for their future!

Join us at the North Crosby Community Ctr for a session on getting your affairs in order. Learn about the importance of wills and power of attorney from experts at the Advocate Centre for the Elderly (ACE). Whether you’re planning for the future or helping a loved one, this event is a great opportunity to ask questions and get valuable advice. Don’t miss out!

 

Date : November 5, 2024

Event location : North Crosby Community Ctr, 875 Concession Road 8, Westport, Canada

Contact : Westport Senior Living Inc. on westport.slda@gmail.com

Sunday Afternoon Dance Club

 

This event is running from 3 November 2024 until 6 April 2025. It is next occurring on November 3, 2024 2:00 pm.

If you love dancing, or if you want to learn, Dance Club is for you. Local residents Tom Ellis and MJ Barrett enjoyed belonging to a dance club in Saskatoon before moving back east. They are excited to continue this fun activity at the Althorpe Bolingbroke Community this fall. The first class of this 6-week session will be Sunday November 3, 2024.

Dance Club provides a monthly venue for learning and practicing partner dances. Sessions will normally include a basic one-hour lesson (with a video) followed by an hour of dancing to a variety of dance music. Examples of partner dance styles include Jive, Rumba, Cha Cha, Foxtrot and Waltz. Occasionally they’ll switch things up with demonstrations of other types of dancing.

No experience needed. Pairs and singles are all welcome.

The Dance Club is held on the first Sunday of the month at the ABC Hall from 2 to 4 pm – starting November 3, with the last session on April 6, 2025.

What to Bring:

* A clean pair of indoor shoes
* A water bottle

Register here. Cost is $30/person or $60/couple (non-refundable). Drop-in is also an option ($7/person)

 

Date : Nov.3,10,17,24,2024 from 2 to 3pm

Event location : 3166 Bolingbroke Road, County Road 36, Maberly, ON K0H 2B0

Contact : Please e-mail Tom at tom.ellis2@gmail.com