Live Events
Stories of the Past – Mi’kmaw Heritage Actors
Come have fun learning the history of the Mi’kmaq people by listening to the stories, learning the songs, experiencing the teachings and watching the beautiful traditional dance. Now is the time to take part in their wonderful event, to learn more of the rich and vibrant history of the Mi’kmaw performed by indigenous actors, dancers, drummers, poets and storytellers! Interactive, multitalented group. Mi’kmaq Heritage Actors have been together since 2011, this year marking their 14 years together as the only indigenous theatre company in Atlantic Canada. Come for the beautiful sights, listen for the powerful drums, learn a few Mi’kmaw words, join us for a fun experience.
First come first served. Limited seating (30-40) available for Wasoqopa’q elders.
The Linda Ronstadt Show—(Her Songs, Her Story)
Join us for a spectacular musical tribute to the legendary “Queen of Rock” – Linda Ronstadt. This unforgettable show celebrates her remarkable career, taking you on a journey through dozens of iconic songs and stories from her five-decade reign in the music world.
Nova Scotia’s very own Karen Coughlin flawlessly channels Linda Ronstadt’s voice and presence. With her incredible vocal range, Karen brings to life Linda’s diverse musical genres—from folk and country to rock, pop, operetta, and standards. With a deep passion for storytelling and an uncanny ability to capture Linda’s looks, mannerisms, and stage presence, Karen transports you straight back to a 1970s Linda Ronstadt concert.
Backed by some of the most talented musicians in Canada, this live tribute show will have you clapping, singing, and reliving the magic of Linda Ronstadt’s greatest hits.
Get your tickets today and enjoy timeless classics like Blue Bayou, When Will I Be Loved, You’re No Good, Poor Poor Pitiful Me, What’s New, Somewhere Out There, and many more!
* A portion of the proceeds from this show will go to “Parkinson Canada” to enable more Canadians affected by Parkinson’s to benefit from advocacy efforts, support programs and help fund important research.
Don’t miss this chance to relive the music of an icon, all while supporting an incredible cause!
COUNTRY BOYS, a tribute to the music of Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks, Brad Paisley and George Strait.
Imagine a concert with these four Country music icons together on one stage, at the same time… The Country Boys show will bring you there!
Featuring Scott Delhunty, Gerald Delhunty, Marc Babin and Daniel Goguen, along with 5 other musicians, you’ll hear most of their timeless hit songs, including; Chattahoochee, Friends In Low Places, The Fireman, and Mud On The Tires.
Each member of the Country Boys band has shared the stage with different Country music legends such as: George Jones, Alan Jackson, Alabama, Brooks & Dunn, Gene Watson, Toby Keith, Sammy Kershaw, and Lorrie Morgan.
This is a show for real Country music fan in you!
In Spite of Ourselves
The Quintessential John Prine Tribute
A memorable evening of John Prine’s finest songs & stories, performed by eight seasoned veteran songwriter/musicians’ and friends’, who are lifelong fans of John Prine. A show that includes a multimedia layer of captivating still pics.
John Prine is widely cited as one of the most influential songwriters of his generation and was known for humorous & insightful lyrics about love, life, and current events, as well as his serious songs with social commentary and songs that recollect melancholy tales from his life.
According to Bob Dylan “Prine’s stuff is pure, Proustian, existentialism, Midwestern mind trips to the nth degree, and he writes beautiful songs.” Join us as we celebrate & elaborate on the beautiful songs of one of the finest songwriters of our generation.
Join Blair Packham (The Jitters), Bill Craig (The Irish Rovers), Kirsten Jones and two-time Juno award nominee Johnny Max, as they perform a repertoire of Prine that resonates with audiences far and wide.
They’re on their way, to the city lights’ … and, THE predominant Canadian Rock ‘n’ Roll band of the 1970s – The Stampeders – are bringing along all their classic hits: Wild Eyes, Carry Me, Oh My Lady, Devil You, Ramona, Minstrel Gypsy, Hit the Road Jack and, of course, the quintessential Canadian – and Hall of Fame – song, Sweet City Woman! A veritable soundtrack to a whole generation that will ‘carry you home’ … maybe not to Birmingham … but back to a time of tie-dyed t-shirts and elevator shoes, 15¢ coffee and homemade apple pie, dating and dreaming … By the time The Stampeders get to the first chorus of the first song, everyone will be singing along.
No seventies group represented Canada’s musical identity to the world like The Stampeders. A quick look at Canada’s music scene from 1971 until 1976 confirms The Stampeders were truly the country’s international musical ambassadors, touring more extensively in Canada and overseas than any other Canadian group during that time. In 1977 the trio: Rich Dodson (lead guitar), Kim Berly (drums) and Ronnie King (bass) parted company but reunited, fittingly at the Calgary Stampede, 15 years later in 1992. Since then they’ve been recognized by SOCAN for their Lifetime Achievement, been inducted into the SOCAN Songwriters Hall of Fame on five occasions and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame for their 1971 seminal hit Sweet City Woman.
Black Umfolosi International is one of the African continent’s most revered vocal groups, with more than three decades of international touring behind them. Their shows feature a cappella songs in many of the languages of southern Africa, as well as almost non- stop dancing. The imbube music they perform is a fusion of traditional Zulu music and more modern genres. The songs are delivered with passion, integrity and humour.
The group also performs in colourful African attire, usually changing their apparel a couple of times during any given show. One of the highlights of any BUI performance is their famous gumboot dance, a tradition which originated in the mines of southern Africa. Dancers perform bare-chested wearing hard hats and long gumboots as they execute incredible feats of dance and percussion. The songs and dance are tied together with interesting and informative banter from the group. A BUI show is a deep dive into the incredible culture of
Zimbabwe.
21 GUN SALUTE is undoubtedly one of the premiere AC/DC reviews ever assembled. The band pays true homage to AC/DC’s high-voltage rock ‘n roll. From the Bon Scott raw rock’n’roll early years, to the band’s evolution throughout their thirty-year tenure with Brian Johnson.
Every detail has been painstakingly reproduced, from the Smoking Cannons & the Hell’s Bell stage props to Angus’s schoolboy outfit. An explosive show that includes the signature live antics and lead singer’s absolute dead-on vocal rendition of both Bon Scott to Brian Johnson.
Lead vocals that belt out the high notes effortlessly whilst strutting the stage in the AC/DC trademark style. This act is a must-see show performed by experienced true professionals, who are down-to-earth blokes.
WE SALUTE YOU CONCERT
21 Gun Salute pays tribute to all the biggest AC/DC hits.
A High Voltage concert filled with epic Rock anthems.
Canada’s #1 stand-up road warrior Ron James, is in the driver’s seat once again and bound full throttle for the ‘big wide open’ with his new show, ‘The Noise Between Our Ears’.
With a seismic level of socio-political change shifting a reality we long took for granted, what better way to process the cacophonous overload of stimuli than in the language of laughs.
‘Fresh out of the wrapping’ content skewers everything from the tyrannical Tangerine Genie south of the border looking to turn us into the 51st state, to aging Baby Boomers now but twenty years away from roaming ‘the home’ in their Led Zeppelin onesies, just one more sing a long away from taking a Stairway to Heaven! Alongside these macro issues is a window on the daily trials of a technologically compromised ADHD addled adult, who came of age in a day when a ‘hash tag’ was something you got after getting too close to the hash knives! Whether getting comedic mileage with classic bits on generational differences in families then and now; teacher terrors of public-school days; hand me-down hockey gear; party hearty camping trips with pals in those ‘bullet proof days of yore’, there’s something for everybody. ‘Ultimately though, ‘The Noise Between Our Ears’ sees Ron as the ever struggling ‘Everyman’, doing his best to make sense of a world off kilter while bedeviled by forces beyond his control, where airlines constantly lose luggage, stock portfolios nosedive, mortality’s the new reality and the barber spends more time trimming your ears than he does your head!
In this wonderfully humorous two-act play, the small town of Big Oak is a place where nothing exciting ever happens…and some people like it that way. But just as café owner Tom Shaw, and his trusted (and only) employee Orson are complaining about the lack of action (and business) in Big Oak, Sadie Flynn steps off the bus and into their lives. Sadie is looking for a place to call home, and small town gossip becomes even juicier after her arrival as strange things begin to occur around the town.
Performances: Friday, November 14th | Saturday, November 15th | Sunday, November 16th at 7:30 pm
Tickets: Adults $25 | Students $15
In this wonderfully humorous two-act play, the small town of Big Oak is a place where nothing exciting ever happens…and some people like it that way. But just as café owner Tom Shaw, and his trusted (and only) employee Orson are complaining about the lack of action (and business) in Big Oak, Sadie Flynn steps off the bus and into their lives. Sadie is looking for a place to call home, and small town gossip becomes even juicier after her arrival as strange things begin to occur around the town.
Performances: Friday, November 14th | Saturday, November 15th | Sunday, November 16th at 7:30 pm
Tickets: Adults $25 | Students $15
In this wonderfully humorous two-act play, the small town of Big Oak is a place where nothing exciting ever happens…and some people like it that way. But just as café owner Tom Shaw, and his trusted (and only) employee Orson are complaining about the lack of action (and business) in Big Oak, Sadie Flynn steps off the bus and into their lives. Sadie is looking for a place to call home, and small town gossip becomes even juicier after her arrival as strange things begin to occur around the town.
Performances: Friday, November 14th | Saturday, November 15th | Sunday, November 16th at 7:30 pm
Tickets: Adults $25 | Students $15
With 21 studio albums, 8 Juno Awards, 31 Maple Blues Awards and multi-platinum record sales, Colin James remains at the top of his game, continuing to challenge himself musically.
His current release, Chasing the Sun, finds the blues-rock singer-songwriter’s electrifying new album featuring the kind of towering musical guests typically found on the other side of velvet ropes. Co-produced by Colin Linden, guest artists include Americana icon Lucinda Williams, bassist Darryl Jones and drummer Charley Drayton (who have backed Miles Davis and The Rolling Stones) plus American harmonica ace Charlie Musselwhite and gospel greats Ann and
Regina McCrary. For over 35 years, Colin has been a consummate professional, a superb guitarist, and a musician’s musician. The confidence that comes with maturity can be heard in his voice and seen in his electrifying stage performance. He does what comes naturally – he always has – he knows no other way and no other life. Recently celebrating his 60th birthday, he still finds joy in
making music and touring and loves what he does.
When Guy Davis plays the blues, he doesn’t want you to notice how much art is involved. “It takes work making a song that’s simple, and playful, and easy to do,” he says. “And I don’t want people to see that. I want to uplift and create something that causes delight. And I want some little eight-year-old kid in the front row to have big eyes and say, ‘Hey, I want to do that!’.”
His parallel careers– as a musician, an author, a music teacher and a film, television and Broadway actor—mark Davis as a Renaissance man, yet the blues remain his first and greatest love. Growing up in a family of artists (his parents were Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis), he fell under the spell of Blind Willie McTell and Fats Waller at an early age. Guy’s one-man play, The Adventures of Fishy Waters: In Bed With the Blues, premiered Off-Broadway in the ’90s and has since been released as a double CD. He went on to star Off-Broadway as the legendary Robert Johnson in Robert Johnson: Trick The Devil, winning the Blues Foundation’s “Keeping the Blues Alive” award. He followed the footsteps of another blues legend when he joined the Broadway production of Finian’s Rainbow, playing the part originally done in 1947 by Sonny Terry. Along the way he cut nine acclaimed albums for the Red House label and three for his own label, Smokeydoke Records; and was nominated for nearly a dozen Blues Awards.
For over 25 years, Maureen, Karen and Teresa have been captivating audiences with their highly woven sibling harmonies and endearing humour. With a mix of original songs, holiday classics, humorous recitations and a little Irish step-dancing, Christmas with The Ennis Sisters is sure to ignite your holiday spirit. Don’t miss the chance to delight in a tradition cherished by so many!
| Following last year’s completely sold-out tour of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island in, Christmas in Cape Breton returns with a new show guaranteed to cause laughter! The show, starring Bette MacDonald – who Rick Mercer has called “the funniest woman on earth” – and Maynard Morrison and a premier cast of multi-talented performers including Celtic stars and Beolach members, Mac Morin and Wendy MacIsaac and long-time cast member, Jordan Musycsyn. The five have been putting their musical and comedic talents to work throughout the year to create a riotous new version of the show for the upcoming Christmas season. The five versatile performers bring to the stage belly laughs and stunning musicianship which have won them fiercely loyal fans. Beloved characters, Mary Morrison, Beulah Claxton, Martin MacKinnon, Wayne Tomko and their island friends will be decking the halls with all performers showing off their abundant musical and comedic chops. Audiences should be warned that uncontrollable laughter may cause painful “side” effects! The tour is presented by Brookes Diamond Productions.
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| An uplifting, family-friendly festive concert featuring one of Atlantic Canada’s top recording artists Jon Mullane (with full band), and Liverpool’s own talented songstress Amy Grant. The night begins with Amy and her family band opening the show, followed by Jon Mullane and his band taking the stage to deliver an exciting set of songs from his ‘Feels Like Christmas’ album and mixing in some of his radio hits. Jon will also debut a few new songs from his forthcoming EP “The Road” including the recently released heartfelt single “Remember in November”. Performers Jon Mullane is an award-winning, Billboard Charting (both in Canada and the US) singer/songwriter/performer who has gained international acclaim and success with his music. His songs have been heard extensively on commercial radio stations, featured in numerous television shows, films and commercials and played at International sporting events. His Holiday album ‘Feels Like Christmas’ includes his hit single ‘Christmas Time (Show the World You Care)’ which has charted at #1 in numerous radio stations across Canada and reached Top 20 Nationally. It has been featured in several Christmas movies, including Super Channel’s ‘Mistletoe Magic’ and Netflix’s ‘Christmas Inheritance’. The title track, “Feels Like Christmas” has also garnered extensive seasonal national radio airplay and charting since its release, fast becoming a modern Christmas classic. The song is featured in the movie ” Sappy Holiday” airing on SuperChannel Heart & Home. Amy Grant is a singer-songwriter from Nova Scotia’s South Shore and has been performing covers and her own original music with local bands and as a soloist for most of her adult life. Her eclectic mix of influences and love for a wide variety of genres have enabled her musical approach to be appreciated by many listeners. Amy’s lyrics often tell a story to which people find they can easily relate, that nicely complement the pleasing melodies of the songs and her clean vocal tone. |
Join us at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday December 7th as the Kiwanis Club of Liverpool returns to the Astor stage for their 94th Anniversary Kiwanis Christmas Concert!
Tickets are $16 for adults and $9 for students, available online or through the Astor box office (Tuesday to Saturday, 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.).
Tickets sell out every year! Don’t wait to get your tickets!
