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Paul Rellinger
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Paul Rellinger a.k.a Relly is an award-winning journalist and longtime former newspaper editor still searching for the perfect lead. When he's not putting pen to paper, Paul is on a sincere but woefully futile quest to own every postage stamp ever issued. A rabid reader of history, Paul claims to know who killed JFK but can't say out of fear for the safety of his oh so supportive wife Mary, his three wonderful kids and his three spirited grandchildren. Paul counts among his passions Peterborough's rich live music scene, the Toronto Maple Leafs, slopitch and retrieving golf balls from the woods. You can follow Paul on Twitter at @rellywrites.
Bringing Irish Week to a close at Peterborough Musicfest, The Celtic Tenors (George Hutton, Daryl Simpson, and Matthew Gilsenan) will perform a free-admission concert in Del Crary Park on August 9, 2025. (Publicity photo)

The Celtic Tenors bring Peterborough Musicfest’s Irish Week to a harmonious close on Saturday...

Acclaimed trio comes to Del Crary Park direct from Ireland to headline summer music festival on August 9.
Celtic rockers Mudmen performs a free-admission concert at Peterborough Musicfest in Del Crary Park on August 6, 2025, with Peterborough fiddler Irish Millie opening. (kawarthaNOW collage)

Celtic rockers Mudmen perform at Peterborough Musicfest Wednesday with local fiddler Irish Millie opening

A double shot of not-so-traditional and traditional Celtic music maintains Irish Week momentum at Del Crary Park on August 9.
U2 tribute band Acrobat (Martin Chorlton as The Edge, Gabriel Pate as Bono, Mark Baker as Adam Clayton, and Michael Wood as Larry Mullen Jr.) performs a free-admission concert at Peterborough Musicfest in Del Crary Park on August 2, 2025. (Publicity photo)

U2 tribute band Acrobat kicks off Irish Week at Peterborough Musicfest on Saturday

The quartet, which U2 invited to perform on stage in Toronto in 2015, is set to deliver the Irish rock band's top hits at Del Crary Park on August 2.
encoreNOW for July 28, 2025 features (from left to right, top and bottom) "Wild Irish Geese" at 4th Line Theatre in Millbrook, Michael Kaeshammer at Westben in Campbellford, Irish Week at Peterborough Musicfest (Acrobat - The U2 Tribute Band, Mudmen with Irish Millie, and The Celtic Tenors), Big Sugar at The Grove Theatre in Fenelon Falls, the Port Hope Arts Festival, and "Jersey Boys" at Bancroft Village Playhouse. (kawarthaNOW collage)

encoreNOW – July 28, 2025

Featuring the world premiere of 'Wild Irish Geese' at 4th Line Theatre in Millbrook, a week-long salute to Ireland courtesy of Peterborough Musicfest, Big Sugar in concert in Fenelon Falls, and more.
Juno and multiple CCMA award-winning country music artist Jess Moskaluke performs a free-admission concert at Peterborough Musicfest in Del Crary Park on July 26, 2025. (Publicity photo)

Award-winning genre-bending country artist Jess Moskaluke performs at Peterborough Musicfest on Wednesday

The small-town Saskatchewan native continues a chart-cracking trajectory that would make her teenage idol Shania Twain proud.
Peterborough indie rock bands The Spades and The Weber Brothers will combine their talents to perform a free-admission concert at Peterborough Musicfest in Del Crary Park on July 26, 2025. Pictured performing at a private event are, from left to right, Josh "Chachi" Robichaud, Tommy Street, and James McKenty of The Spades and Sam and Ryan Weber of The Weber Brothers. (kawarthaNOW screenshot of In Record Time video)

Local indie rockers The Spades and The Weber Brothers combine their talents Saturday at...

Reborn collaboration will see amalgamated band perform each other's songs at Del Crary Park on July 26.
ABBA tribute band Abbamania and The Bee Gees tribute band Night Fever will supply a double dose of disco-era musical nostalgia with a free-admission concert at Peterborough Musicfest in Del Crary Park on July 23, 2025. (Photos: Clairmont Photography)

Abbamania and Night Fever return to Peterborough Musicfest on Wednesday

Iconic hits of ABBA and The Bee Gees sure to spark memories for many as second half of summer concert series begins on July 23.
Peterborough MP Emma Harrison with Anna Gainey, Canada's secretary of state for children and youth, during a visit on July 17, 2025. The MP for the Montreal area riding of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-Westmount where she was raised is one of four children born to Peterborough native and former Montreal Canadiens great Bob Gainey and his wife Cathy. (Photo: Office of Anna Gainey)

Canada’s secretary of state for children and youth touts child benefit increase during Peterborough...

Returning to what she calls her 'second home', Anna Gainey spent Thursday with Peterborough MP Emma Harrison.
Veteran Canadian punk band Gob (Gabe Mantle, Tom Thacker, Theo Goutzinakis, and Steven Fairweather) will perform a free-admission concert at Peterborough Musicfest in Del Crary Park on July 19, 2025. (Promotional photo)

‘The elder statesmen for Canadian pop punk,’ Gob performs at Peterborough Musicfest on Saturday...

Before heading on a European tour, West Coast-formed quartet brings its catchy punk hooks and raw stage energy to Del Crary Park on July 19,
"Wild Irish Geese" playwright and actor Megan Murphy and director Kim Blackwell (left) on July 16, 2025 with some of the cast of 29 professional and volunteer actors/musicians who are performing in the world premiere play at 4th Line Theatre that tells the story of the Peter Robinson emigration of Irish settlers in 1825: Jasper Chesser (third from left), M. John Kennedy (behind Jasper), Paul Crough, Darragh O'Connell, Lindsay Wilson, Indigo Chesser, Sebastian Sage (behind Indigo), and Padrick Wilson. The play runs from July 29 to August 30 at the Winslow Farm in Millbrook. (Photo: Jordan Lyall Photography for kawarthaNOW)

4th Line Theatre in Millbrook stages the world premiere of Peter Robinson emigration play...

Megan Murphy's debut full-length play about the 1825 emigration of Irish settlers to the Peterborough area runs from July 29 to August 30 at the Winslow Farm.

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