encoreNOW for March 23, 2026 features (from left to right, top and bottom) The Damn Truth at Lindsay's FLATO Academy Theatre, Public Energy's screening of Laura Taler's dance films "the village trilogy" and "Matryoshka Crush" at the Art Gallery of Peterborough, The Maple Blues Revue at Peterborough's Market Hall, author Maurice Switzer at Lakefield College School, Nicholas Campbell and the Metre Cheaters at Peterborough's Market Hall, and flautist Gillian Derer as guest artist as the Peterborough Symphony Orchestra's "Inspired" concert at Peterborough's Showplace. (kawarthaNOW collage)

encoreNOW – March 23, 2026

Featuring The Damn Truth, dance films by Laura Taler, The Maple Blues Revue, author Maurice Switzer, Nicholas Campbell and the Metre Cheaters, and the PSO's 'Inspired'
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Town Ward councillor Joy Lachica speaking at an International Women's Day hosted by the Women's Business Network of Peterborough on March 4, 2026, where she announced her intention to seek re-election in Town Ward, which includes downtown Peterborough, in the October municipal election. (Photo: Jeannine Taylor / kawarthaNOW)

Joy Lachica to seek re-election as Town Ward councillor in Peterborough

The hooded merganser, a fish-eating duck that overwinters in the U.S., is one of the species you will see and hear this spring as migratory birds return to the Kawarthas region. According to Peterborough Field Naturalists president Sue Paradisis, the spring migration period is one of the best times of year for birders as many waterfowl species congregate in the area while they wait for northern lakes to thaw so they can return to their breeding grounds. You can join the Peterborough Field Naturalists for the "Return of the Birds to Little Lake" community event on March 28 and 29, 2026 at Beavermead Park and Rogers Cove on the shores of Little Lake in Peterborough. (Photo courtesy of Peterborough Field Naturalists)

Spring is a great time to take up birding according to Peterborough Field Naturalists

Juno-nominated Montreal-based hard rockers The Damn Truth (lead guitarist Tom Shemer, lead singer and rhythm guitarist Lee-la Baum, bassist Pierre-Yves Letellier, and drummer Dave Traina) are performing at FLATO Academy Theatre in Lindsay on March 27, 2026. (Photo: Natali Ortiz)

Juno-nominated Montreal hard rockers The Damn Truth set to shake Lindsay on March 27

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Emerging Canadian flutist Gillian Derer will be joining the Peterborough Symphony Orchestra for its "Inspired" concert on April 12, 2026 at Showplace Performance Centre in downtown Peterborough, where she will be the featured soloist for Mozart's "Flute Concerto No. 1 in G Major." Originally from Tillsonburg and now studying at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Derer is a soloist, orchestra musician, and educator with almost 42,000 Instagram followers. (Photo: Stuart Lowe)

Peterborough Symphony Orchestra welcomes back flutist Gillian Derer for ‘Inspired’ concert on April 12 at Showplace

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Emerging flutist will be performing Mozart's Flute Concerto No. 1 while the orchestra will spotlight other soloists in music by Mozetich, Buhr, Respighi, and Stravinsky.
Nogojiwanong Indigenous Fringe Festival (NIFF) co-founders during the original 2020 announcement of the world's first and only Indigenous fringe festival, before it was postponed until 2021 because of the pandemic. Pictured are Joeann Argue, assistant professor in Indigenous performance at Trent University, Lee Bolton, theatre coordinator of Nozhem First Peoples Performance Space at Trent University, and Drew Hayden Taylor, the award-winning Indigenous playwright, author, columnist, and filmmaker who first proposed the idea of the festival in 2019. (Photo courtesy of NIFF)

This year’s Nogojiwanong Indigenous Fringe Festival at Peterborough Theatre Guild has been cancelled

encoreNOW for March 23, 2026 features (from left to right, top and bottom) The Damn Truth at Lindsay's FLATO Academy Theatre, Public Energy's screening of Laura Taler's dance films "the village trilogy" and "Matryoshka Crush" at the Art Gallery of Peterborough, The Maple Blues Revue at Peterborough's Market Hall, author Maurice Switzer at Lakefield College School, Nicholas Campbell and the Metre Cheaters at Peterborough's Market Hall, and flautist Gillian Derer as guest artist as the Peterborough Symphony Orchestra's "Inspired" concert at Peterborough's Showplace. (kawarthaNOW collage)

encoreNOW – March 23, 2026

Juno-nominated Montreal-based hard rockers The Damn Truth (lead guitarist Tom Shemer, lead singer and rhythm guitarist Lee-la Baum, bassist Pierre-Yves Letellier, and drummer Dave Traina) are performing at FLATO Academy Theatre in Lindsay on March 27, 2026. (Photo: Natali Ortiz)

Juno-nominated Montreal hard rockers The Damn Truth set to shake Lindsay on March 27

Saskatchewan's retro rockers The Sheepdogs (Ewan Currie, Ryan Gullen, Shamus Currie, and Ricky Paquette) are performing at The Venue in downtown Peterborough on Saturday night as part of their Out All Night Tour. (Promotional photo)

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