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Singer-songwriter Steven Page will perform a free-admission concert at Peterborough Musicfest in Del Crary Park on July 12, 2025, featuring songs from his solo career as well as selected tunes from his time with Barenaked Ladies. (Photo: David Bergman)

Steven Page’s tale of two fine music careers gets its due Saturday night at Del Crary Park

Singer-songwriter Sarah Jayne Riley is kicking off her summer tour with a hometown show at Sadleir House in Peterborough on Friday night, with Mary-Kate Edwards and Drea Lake opening. (Photo: Tim Leyes)

nightlifeNOW – July 10 to 16

Audience members will be challenged to figure out which of six characters is a murderer in Globus Theatre's "Murder at the Blue Moon Saloon," a Western-theme murder mystery dinner experience written and directed by Globus artistic director Sarah Quick and running at Globus Theatre for nine performances from July 16 to July 26, 2025. The six characters will be played by (from left to right, top and bottom) Kerry Griffin, Jennine Profeta, Kevin Sepaul, Calvin Rea, Jack Copland, and Carly Poole. (kawarthaNOW collage of supplied photos)

Will you solve the ‘Murder at the Blue Moon Saloon’ at Globus Theatre in Bobcaygeon?

Blue Rodeo co-founder and frontman Jim Cuddy and his band will perform a free-admission concert at Peterborough Musicfest in Del Crary Park on July 5, 2025, featuring songs from his six-album solo career as well as selected Blue Rodeo tunes. (Photo: Christopher Gentle)

Peterborough Musicfest welcomes The Jim Cuddy Band to Del Crary Park on Wednesday night

"Hookup" at Globus Theatre in Bobcaygeon from July 10 to 12, 2025 features improv performers (left to right, top and bottom) Paul Bates, Christy Bruce, Alastair Forbes, Kris Siddiqi, and Aurora Browne. (kawarthaNOW collage of supplied photos)

Experience all the excitement of a first date but without the awkward silences in ‘Hookup’ at Globus Theatre in Bobcaygeon

Juno-award winning singer-songwriter Preston Pablo will headline a free-admission concert for Peterborough Musicfest in Del Crary Park on July 5, 2025, with 21-year-old songstress noelle opening. (Publicity photos)

Rising Canadian pop performers Preston Pablo and noelle perform at Peterborough Musicfest on Saturday

Ottawa indie folk-pop band Tin Constellations (Brent Smith, Rob Snasdell-Taylor, Andrew Robertson, and Christine Graves) performs at Jethro's Bar & Stage in downtown Peterborough on Saturday evening. (Photo via Tin Constellations website)

nightlifeNOW – July 3 to 9

Tamara Bick and Drew Antzis debate what they would do if they win the lottery in "The Lottery Ticket," a short film produced by Peterborough-based Paradigm Pictures in 2021 with cinematography by Pawel Dwulit and editing by Rob Viscardis. Based on Antzis and Bick's show "Settle This Thing," the film won Best Comedy at the Couch Film Festival 2022 and Best Writer in the short category at the Alt Film Festival 2022 and served as a proof of concept for the upcoming new Bell Fibe TV1 series "Janet & Steve" written by and starring Bick and Antzis. (kawarthaNOW screenshot)

New Bell Fibe TV1 series ‘Janet & Steve’ being filmed in Peterborough this September

Award-winning folk-country singer and songwriter William Prince will perform a free-admission concert for Peterborough Musicfest in Del Crary Park on July 2, 2025, with Missy Knott of Curve Lake First Nation as special musical guest. (Photo of Missy Knott by Justen Soule)

Juno award-winning William Prince brings his commanding baritone voice to Del Crary Park on July 2

encoreNOW for June 30, 2025 features (from left to right, top and bottom) The Newfoundland Songbook at Port Hope's Capitol Theatre, "The Buddy Holly Story" at The Grove Theatre in Fenelon Falls, Susan Aglukark at Westben in Campbellford, "Hook Up" at Globus Theatre in Bobcaygeon, the Lakefield Jazz, Art and Craft Festival, and Steven Page at Peterborough Musicfest. (kawarthaNOW collage)

encoreNOW – June 30, 2025

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