York Region Entertainment Guide Winter 2015

With winter closing in, while we can enjoy the splendour and activities associated with the winter outdoors, we can also look forward to some unique indoor aventures for all ages.

Whether you're looking for interactive or live entertainment such as a laser tag experience or a holiday season play, this York Region area focused guide from YOURk Region Media & Events will direct you where you need to look.


Click here for a link to live York Region Entertainment in Hospitality establishments. 

Live Music

John McDermott 

November 29, 2015 at 2 p.m.

John presents many of his well-know songs with a sprinkling of your Christmas favourites. Tickets are $55 for Adults and and $50 for Seniors 65+ (plus hst). Click here for tickets to John McDermott.

Newmarket Theatre, Pickering Cres

Elvis: A Christmas Special with Pete Paquette

Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. 

Join for a magical evening celebrating the Christmas season with, “Elvis: A Christmas Special” featuring  
Multi-Award Winning Elvis Tribute Artist Pete Paquette with the "Rockin’ Royals” Showband, accompanied by the “M.I.B. Horns” and the sensational “Tonettes." and will showcase Elvis Presley's greatest Christmas Carols and songs of Inspiration such as: “Blue Christmas”, “Here Comes Santa Claus”, “I Believe”, “The Wonderful World of Christmas”, “American Trilogy”, and many more favorites. . Click here for tickets to Elvis: A Christmas Special with Pete Paquette. 

Newmarket Theatre, Pickering Cres. 

 

OLIVER! 

St. Andrew's College, Aurora, Ont Canada

Thursday 26, Please Sir, I want some more!

Also Fri 27 November, 2015 

 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM (EST) tickets@sac.on.ca

Cantabile Chorale of York Region
presents its final concert
 

The Joy of Christmas
Monday, December 7, 2015 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Thornhill United Church 25 Elgin St.  map
(Dudley & Elgin Streets in Thornhill)
Robert Richardson, Founder/Director. Ethel Briggs, Guest Accompanist
Rev. Sebastian Meadows-Helmer, Guest Violinist
Audience Carol Singing
Reception after the concert
Call 905-731-8318 for more information.
www.cantabile.ca

Festival of Lights
Downtown Markham

The family favourite returns to FRIDAY NIGHT. Come and see some of the improvements made on  Main Street Markham while you enjoy a Free Horse and Buggy ride! There will also be jugglers, live music, stilt walking elfs, fire artists from Zero Gravity Circus, carollers, and of course a surprise visit from Santa and more!

Sat Nov 28th View event website



Mary Poppins

Start: Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 7:30 PM

End: Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 1:30 PM

RICHMOND HILL - One of the most popular Disney movies of all time is capturing hearts in a whole new way: as a practically perfect musical! Based on the books by P.L. Travers and the classic Walt Disney film.

10268 Yonge Street, Richmond Hill

boxoffice@rhcentre.ca

Company, a Musical Comedy

Start: Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 7:00 PM

End: Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 9:00 PM

Newmarket - On his 35th birthday, Bobby—a commitment-phobic bachelor—searches for the answers to love and life in New York City. While enjoying the company of some lovely ladies, he observes both the joy ... 

Newmarket Theatre, 505 Pickering Cres

info@wavestagetheatre.com

The McMichael Concert Series, part of the Signature Performance Series, returns with three concerts by leading Canadian musicians. A gallery visit and parking are included in the price of the concert;

October 4, 3 pm: David Buchbinder’s Quartet
November 1, 3 pm: Genevieve Marentette Quartet
November 29, 3 pm: Tony Quarrington and Friends
10365 Islington Ave. Kleinberg, Ontario.

Xmas Cards! 

This House Was Made for Christmas celebrates the art of Christmas greeting cards, which were designed by seminal Canadian artists of the twentieth century. Several members of the Group of Seven, including Lawren Harris, J.E.H. MacDonald, and A.J. Casson, and their contemporaries, as well as aboriginal artists of Canada are represented with works drawn from the McMichael art and archival collections as well as private holdings, some of which have never been displayed before.
10365 Islington Ave. Kleinberg, Ontario. Ends Jan 31 2016 info@Mcmichael.com

And Finally...Ballet!

Canada's Ballet Jörgen presents The Nutcracker
Wednesday, December 30, 2015 www.markhamtheatre.ca 

  Location: FLATO Markham Theatre
171 Town Centre Boulevard  map

Help! Ontario Festival Mania Guide

Be careful during festival season

Collingwood, Ontario has long now been renowned for its Elvis Festival, this year July 23-26, and in fact I performed there and competed a few years back. Another story for another day. Let's just say they entered me in the wrong category. Lol. But I do recall being intrigued by the pop-up Elvis paraphernalia shops, and street corner side-burns selling vendors, and the general atmosphere that grasped the theme and embraced it. As I'd walked around town in my Elvis attire I frickin felt like Elvis the way I was treated, feeling an obligation almost to stay in character, at one time having a group of dozens of visiting Japanese tourists wanting a group shot. It was maniacal!

TPElvis

There all types of festivals, themed after as many themes as you can imagine, Blues, Jazz, Comedy, but in the end the most imaginative, and ones that best stick to a theme with a broad range of possible attendees win out. They will attract the better acts long run and that in turn will grow attendance.

And no one type is immune to losing its perch either. The (Toronto) Beaches Jazz Festival, this year being held July 10-26, has never again reached its lofty attendee perch once attained although they are hanging in there, and the always edgy EdgeFest is a hanger onner event still.



Going north, Aurora has a seemingly endless festival season also including a Jazz, Winter Blues and annual outdoor BBQ Ribs Festival which includes top notch entertainment while Barrie has its Kempenfest July 31 - Aug 3.

Newmarket also has its TD Jazz+ Festival upcoming July 31, 1, 2, 3 and it's grown in leaps and bounds since its inception a few years ago. Adding the + has opened it up to a broader range of music and talent, and kept skeptics of it not being a jazz festival, like me originally, at bey.

Markham had their festival June 19, 20 while Unionville's was June 4, 5, 6, however their Thursday night's Music in the Park by Unionville Presents, sports a superb level of talented, mostly clone type acts, including recently The Caverners who cover The Beatles.

The Caverners did a superb job with their 60's mop top era version of The Beatles on this night, and looking around at the diverse crowd, including diversity in ages, one could envision an entire festival around them. People just couldn't sit still, and the on-stage persona of the talented band helped perpetuate the mystical feeling. Their suberb vocal abilities and spot on instrument play, along side the lookalike factor, sure made for a great time. Orillia Ontario has recognized the potential, hosting a competing festival with Collingwood's Elvis Fest, with a Beatle mania type event, July 24, 25, 2 6 in 2015. The whole strip gets into it including a store dedicated to The Beatles and stages featuring some top Beatles-like performers. As John might say, "Imagine that!"

Adorning, what else, a tax place!

Tombits:

For a complete listing of Ontario's festivals see this link.

BeatleMAINia Possibilities!

Imagine on top of a headliner that an entire Main St is wrapped in this theme now - street vendors in theme, shopkeepers, yoga booths, leather, crafts, art, aboriginal, 60's collectables, genre T-shirts, records, local bars becoming the famous Cavern Club for a night...it's endless...and exciting!

Watch for TPE updates on BeatleMAINia 2016!

BeatleMainia coming to a Main St near you!

Picture YOU here!

The Beatles loved Elvis! Thank-you...Thank-you very muches!

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Newmarket Music Promoter Maurice Weeks Live Entertainment Nights

The life of a promoter or show event coordinator or record label evolves constantly, and a real promoter is always looking to do something bigger, and so when a good promoter is filling their venues to capacity with patrons, the natural progression is to find something bigger to put them into. That's the predicament event and music promoters / record label Arthur Jr Music, led by Arthur Weeks aka talented Hip Hop singer Maurice Weeks, along with partner / compatriot Dan Barker of 90 Nickel Entertainment, is experiencing right now. But these are growing pains of the excellent kind.

Let's face it, the ultimate for someone inclined to put live rock & roll, hip hop and other cool genre laiden shows together is to do bigger and better each time. Just look at the progression of rock concerts over the years. I actually had the honour recently of interviewing Johnny Brower, one of the guys who organized and promoted the first ever multi day concerts who happens also to be the same fellow who organized The Toronto Rock & Roll Revival concert of 1969 - the first ever concert John Lennon performed apart from the Beatles, and widely believed by those in the know as being the catalyst that broke them up. Hey, what can I say, that's who I hang with when they are producing the Pop69 movie about him. Ha. The irony of having driven around with the legendary icon a few months back and now being out with an eager group of young up and comer wannabe legends didn't escape me.

I tried to mention it to the three who'd accompanied me on the little road trip, including another indy records and entertainment Producer Carly Myers of ILLBROKEN (IB) Entertainment, while showing a potential site for an indoor / outdoor gig that holds up to 1000 people, but I think it was maybe too much at the time to take in as they were way loving the venue and already wondering aloud about the how to's and what if's.

Anyway, the 1st idea was to bring some kind of headliner in to cap off a day of bands including showcasing local bands who have stood out in band wars and Talent Search competitions. So it would showcase not only a top notch headlining act, but some very cool other bands as well.

TPE could perhaps hook in some great food from a couple of local businesses and a beer tent to seal the deal, and the event would have all the fixings of a fun time. TPE's been looking for someone that fits this bill for these types of venues to work on the entertainment side and believe these guys fit that bill way well. They also combine to have a tremendous following and combine that with the fact they have also brought some great new talent to the stage in Newmarket, Richmond Hill, Aurora and Markham too and are always looking to develop talent and introduce the coolest in music trends through their events, which I'm digging, and you get a recipe for a great time. 

Maurice tells me they just signed an exciting rapper artist to the label  also known to do little genre blending which is cool and maybe what the music festival will be come about.. a festival of merging rock, rap and hip hop styles..thrown in amongst some traditional styles - A celebration of Rock Music history if you will!...So stay tuned for sum of dat shit y'mean!? It's all rock & roll to me.Ha.

These guys are at the ground level forefront of the music scene today - just like Johnny Brower was in his and am excited to see this show to completion and what kind of talent line up these guys put together should so stay tuned!


....With a hip, hop, a hippity hippity hop, and a hip, hop, hippityhophop! 

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