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Next year's 50th anniversary Blyth Festival season will feature six productions - four indoors at Memorial Hall and two outdoors on the Harvest Stage - including five premieres and one remount and reimagining of the Canadian play that started it all.
On Nov. 5, the long-running local phenomena known as CKNX Barn Dance came home to Josephine Street in the form of an afternoon of old-time country tunes at the regally restored Town Hall Theatre in Wingham.
A star-studded country show is being put on in the historic Town Hall Theatre in Wingham on the afternoon of Nov. 5, and it's one that's guaranteed to bring back that same old-time spirit that, for a long time, was synonymous with the little town.
Southwestern Ontario has produced its fair share of phenomenal musicians over the years, and Perth County-raised singer-songwriter Cat Clyde already fits comfortably into that pantheon
Clinton native, Goderich resident and one of the head honchos at the Blyth branch of the Huron County Library, Hamilton Baker, has delved into the literary world from the creative side, penning his first novel, Iron Scars.
Celebrated local author and photographer Bonnie Sitter is working to create a documentary on the Farmerettes, a passion project of hers that manifested with her book, Onion Skins and Peach Fuzz, but she just needs help to fund it.
The Huron County Museum in Goderich is now home to a large painting by George Agnew Reid, a world-renowned artist who was born in northern Huron County.
On Aug. 18, Lucknow-based musician Scott Chow will be the latest musical performer in this summer's hottest culinary event/concert series - Fired Up Fridays at Grassroots Wood Fired Pizza.
If you live in Huron County and have listened to the radio in the past five years, you're probably already familiar with the music of Alberta-born Aaron Goodvin.
Recently, the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts handed out Dora Mavor Moore Awards for the 43rd time, honouring the best in Toronto theatre over the course of the previous year.
The title of the first installment in The Donnellys: A Trilogy is Sticks and Stones, evoking the well-known, "sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me."
Morris-Turnberry Council is providing a variety of support for the Bluevale Homecoming Committee in advance of the 170th celebration being planned for next year.
The Tanner Steffler Foundation was part of what was a great day for Seaforth on Saturday, as the Seaforth Summerfest took over the town's main street, followed by the return of the foundation's Six String Music Fest...
These kids came to the Brussels Market on Friday to win some money and eat some watermelon and, in just a matter of minutes, it looked like they were almost out of watermelon.
Last Saturday, the weekly Goderich Farmers' Market in The Square was joined by the Festival of Arts and Crafts - an event full of local artisans selling paintings, textile crafts, jewelry, recycled art and more.
What started as a small, grassroots effort to engage the youth of Blyth has grown into one of the biggest and most dynamic recreation opportunities in the village in recent years with the Blyth Kids Club.
The Blyth Festival premiere of Sticks and Stones feels like a key that has found its lock at the Harvest Stage after the Festival got so close in the last two years.
After three years of cancellations, reschedulings and further cancellations, the Blyth Festival Art Gallery opened its first professional season on Friday night with an exhibition of photography by Lucknow-based photographer Hannah Dickie...
This year's Blyth Festival played host to the premiere of Sophia Fabiilli's farcical comedy Liars at a Funeral. It was a long-delayed opening night - Liars was first slated to be part of Blyth's 2020 season, only to be stymied by the onset of the pandemic
This year the Dungannon Super Pull celebrated its 22nd anniversary with a triumphant debut at its new location at Lucknow's Graceland - the home of the popular Music in the Fields.
While the lower level of the Kingsbridge Centre was full of free samples last weekend, courtesy of local vendors and the Taste of Huron initiative, the building's upper level was tasting theatrical success...
Jackie Falconer, a Blyth native and the daughter of Kevin and Lorie Falconer of Blyth, has won the National Unison Festival's first-ever Unison Innovation Award.
This year's season at the Blyth Festival showcases Canadian stories from a variety of time periods, set in a number of distinct locations.
In any theatre company, those working behind the scenes are as essential to a successful season as those on stage. That fact is especially true at the Blyth Festival