The Peterborough Folk Festival has announced its fourth annual Winter Downtown Folk Festival, running March 6th to 10th in downtown Peterborough, with headline concerts at Showplace Performance Centre featuring The Sheepdogs and Randy Bachman.
The expanded five-day winter folk festival will feature more artists and venues, to be announced in the coming months, including the lineup for Saturday, March 10th which will include free pop-up concerts at various downtown businesses.
“It’s really exciting to have two of Canada’s biggest artists perform at this year’s winter festival and support the downtown businesses at the same time,” says Ryan Kemp, organizer and artistic director of the Peterborough Folk Festival. “We are always trying to find ways to improve Peterborough culturally, economically and socially. Supporting our local musicians, music venues, restaurants, and business is very important. ”
The festival kicks off at Showplace with Juno Award winning band The Sheepdogs — featuring their newest member, Bailieboro’s own Jimmy Bowskill — on Tuesday, March 6th. Special guests will be rockers Sam Coffey and The Iron Lungs.
The Sheepdogs will be releasing their new album Changing Colours on February 2, 2018. Tickets for the all-ages show are $40 plus fees, and each ticket includes a download of the new album. Tickets for The Sheepdogs go on sale at Showplace at 10 a.m. on Thursday, November 16th.
Canadian rock legend Randy Bachman will be performing at Showplace the next evening, on Wednesday, March 7th.
Few artists can claim to have made a bigger impact on popular music than Bachman, whose list of hits with Bachman-Turner Overdrive and The Guess who include “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet”, “Taking Care of Business”, “Looking Out for #1”, “Let It Ride”, “American Woman”, “No Sugar Tonight”, “Undun”, and “These Eyes”.
Tickets for Randy Bachman will be $61.25 and go on sale on Friday, November 17th.
Tickets for both shows will be available in person at the Showplace box office (290 George St. N., Peterborough) or by phone at 705-742-7469 (box office hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday), or online anytime at showplace.org.
