Catherine MacLellan - Holiday Tour

Friday December 2, 2022

8:00PM, Doors open 7:00PM

Tickets are $40 plus taxes

JUNO Award-winning singer-songwriter Catherine MacLellan is bringing her Christmas Show to the Maritimes this year. Sharing beloved classics, self-penned holiday songs and some rare gems, Catherine will be joined on stage by her long-time guitarist Nick Gauthier. 

Catherine says, “I’ve always loved the music of Christmas, and the fun times singing in kitchens with friends and family over a glass of eggnog. That is the energy I’ll be bringing with me, hoping that people sing along and catch some of that holiday spirit!”

Last year, Catherine released her first Christmas album, a self-engineered and self-produced EP, which includes the original single ("Calling You Home (for the Holidays)") and three beloved classics ("In The Bleak Midwinter", "Blue Christmas", and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas").

"I love the coziness of winter, it’s a time for introspection but also a time for gathering around fires and feasts. Christmas shows bring in all of that for me, the balance between joyful silliness and the sacred. It makes me feel like a child again," says Catherine.

Matthew Good - solo acoustic
@ Strathspey Place

Opening Act: Carly Thomas

Presented by ICCA / Sponsored by 101.5 The Hawk

TICKETS ON SALE JUNE 29, at noon
$45 General Admission - Available here

Bio

Matthew Good is one of Canada's most recognizable and relevant recording artists. He began his career as the iconic frontman of The Matthew Good Band, one of the most successful Canadian alternative rock bands during the 1990s and early 2000s, earning multi-platinum sales along with numerous awards and nominations.

Since disbanding in 2002, Good has enjoyed a successful solo career. He has released nine studio albums and has toured extensively throughout Canada, the United States, and the UK. His most recent album, Moving Walls, was released in 2020.

With six Juno Award nominations to his credit as a solo artist- and wins for Rock Album of the Year for 2011’s Vancouver and Video of the Year for 2003’s “Weapon” – Good has never been one to shy away from pushing musical boundaries.

Through his music, Good’s defiant spirit anchors his vulnerable, and at times, cinematic outlook on life. Never one to bite his tongue, his hyper-focused outlook on the world, including political and socio-economic issues, has earned him accolades for his thoughtful and deliberate approach.

Live music at ICCA is supported by Canada Heritage

NICK BEATON- COMEDY

From a blue-collar background, Nick Beaton cuts through the bullshit of an overly bureaucratic society that takes itself way too seriously. Whether it’s done through his opinionated rants, hard-hitting jokes, or his disarming "every man" personality Nick Beaton is a favourite wherever he performs. He has performed on 4 continents, 7 countries, and over 40 cities. His run at the Edinburgh Festival received glowing five star reviews, from both “Broadway Baby” and “Three Weeks,” the latter of which described him as having, “enviable confidence, timing, and manner of a comedian with decades of experience beyond his years.” Nick wrote for the hit show on CTV, Spun Out staring Dave Foley was a panellist on Match Game and was featured on CBC's The Debaters. He has performed at Montreal’s International Just For Laughs Comedy Festival three times, as well as the Halifax Comedy Festival, the Moncton Comedy Festival, the Sudbury Comedy Festival and the Icebreakers Comedy Festival. He has received numerous accolades for his comedy, including winning the 2007 Just For Laughs Toronto Home-grown Competition, and being nominated for two Canadian Comedy Awards, including one for his comedy special, “Comedy Now!” that aired nationally in Canada.

Lennie Gallant

8:00PM show, doors at 7:30PM

Tickets are $50, available here

BIO: Born in Rustico, Prince Edward Island, Lennie Gallant is a multi-award winning Acadian-Canadian singer-songwriter, folk musician and storyteller, a veteran performer and an “Order of Canada” recipient with both award winning english and french albums. As a successful solo artist, he is the recipient of 19 East Coast Music Awards and multiple JUNO Award nominations and his song Peter’s Dream has been entered into the Canadian Songwriters Hall Of Fame and he is also one half of the successful francophone duo, Sirene et Matelot.

His songs have been recorded by Jimmy Buffett, Measha Bruggergosman, The Rankins, Matt Minglewood and he has shared stages and played with Jimmy Buffett, David Foster, Patti Griffin, Lucinda Williams, Roger Hodgson and toured with Céline Dion and he has songs that appear in soundtracks for movies and television shows including Canvas, Conquest, Dawson’s Creek, Joan of Arcadia and the recent award winning movie, "Still The Water".

He wrote and performed Searching For Abegweit, a multimedia show that ran for 180 performances and toured Eastern Canada, has played for the troops in Afghanistan and performed at the Winter Olympics medal ceremony and has performed multiple times with symphony orchestras. His last show before the pandemic was two sold out Symphony Nova Scotia performances at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium in Halifax.

Lennie has written songs with Gordie Sampson, Troy Verges, Myles Goodwyn (April Wine), The East Pointers, John Wiggins and he co-wrote the theme song , Acadie De Nos Coeur, for the first Acadian World Congress. (first massive Acadian/Cajun gathering since the expulsion of 1755). He also wrote and performed the theme song for the city of Halifax 200th Anniversary, accompanied by a choir of 2000 voices on a stage built on MacDonald Bridge especially for the occasion, as well as wrote the theme song for Pier 21, Canada’s Ellis Island, the gateway to Canada for immigration for decades.

PEI Red Cross Humanitarian Award was presented to him for his charity work and support for humanitarian causes and his CD ‘When We Get There’ was taken to the International Space Station as part of a small collection of Canadian albums for the astronauts to listen to. Lennie jests that his “songs from that album (When We Get There), circled the planet 248 times..How’s that for high rotation!”

Live music at ICCA is supported by Canada Heritage.

Rum Ragged

Doors open at 8:00PM, showtime is 8:30PM

Tickets are $37.50 plus taxes and fees, available here

Bio

2021 JUNO Award Nominees, Rum Ragged, take a bold approach to the distinct folk music of their home, the Eastern Canadian island of Newfoundland. With a reverence for their roots and a creative, contemporary edge, this young band has quickly become known as the finest performers of their great, living, musical tradition. Boasting bouzouki, fiddle, bodhran, banjo, guitar, and button accordion, these new champions of East Coast music enliven and enlighten audiences with their signature brand of Newfoundland folk. Always honest, thought-provoking, and often humorous, it’s Rum Ragged’s live show that makes them a fast favourite with any audience. Their combination of striking vocal harmonies, staggering musicianship, and captivating storytelling gives concert-goers an experience they won't soon forget. Since their inception in 2016, Rum Ragged has maintained a rigorous tour schedule, performing at some of the worlds premier folk, celtic and roots venues all while managing to record four acclaimed, award-winning studio albums. Rum Ragged is not your run-of-the-mill folk band, they are the genuine article.

Live music at ICCA is supported by Canada Heritage.

Tickets are $30 - available here

Lone by DMNikas - Series Screening Premier

Saturday June 4 - 7:00PM at ICCA

Tickets are $10 plus taxes and fees - available here

Premiere screening of “LONE” at the ICCA on June 4th 7-10 pm. LONE is a new TV series created & produced entirely by one person: Michael Nikas aka DMNikas. The Premiere screening of all six episodes will be held at the Inverness County Centre for the Arts aka ICCA June 4th, 2022 from 7 to 10pm … registration information will be posted by ICCA shortly.

Plan to attend! This is a one-time-only presentation with live musical performance by Brian Doyle - a minimal fee of $10 will apply. “LONE” features six unique individuals from our community. The series will air exclusively on Bell Media, Fibe TV, channel 1 and the Fibe TV app.

#CapeBretonIsland #homeofourhearts #bsinverness #Lone “Never a dull moment Here” supported by the Inverness Oran & by Shean Co-op.

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Gunning & Cormier

Doors open at 8:00PM, showtime is 8:30PM

Tickets are $45 plus tax and available here.

Two of Canada’s greatest roots singer-songwriters have finally done what everybody’s wanted — heck, what they’ve wanted — for years. Dave Gunning and J.P. Cormier are releasing their first album together, called Two. Great friends, frequent collaborators, co-writers and touring partners, the pair has been talking about this album since pretty much the day they met. Now it’s here, and it’s everything fans hoped and dreamed it would be.

The album is called Two because that’s what it is, just the two of them.

“We wanted to keep it simple and honest so we essentially made a 4-track recording, just two guitars and two vocals. Limiting ourselves this way actually helped inspire the arrangements and the performances. It forced us to dig a little deeper.”, says Gunning.

“A lot of artists like us feel compelled to put these massive productions together, and we said we’re not going to do that,” adds Cormier. “We’re going to make this record be that large with only two instruments and two voices. And we did that.”

Two is made up of everything the duo excels at. There are new collaborations between the two writers (Brothers, Home To Mary), new arrangements of antique folk numbers (Johnny Armstrong, Katie o’ the Gowrie), and some tasty, surprising covers (Never Picked Cotton, Stompin’ Tom’s Songbird Valley).

Every song had to meet their very high, combined standards. “We didn’t take it lightly,” confirms Gunning. “We really put our heart into it.”

No refunds will be issued unless event is cancelled based on the direction of the NS Health Authority. Proof of full vaccination is required for entry.

This project is supported by Investment from the Province of Nova Scotia through Music Nova Scotia under its Music Nova Scotia Investment Program.