City: Tweed

GHOST LIGHT
January 29th at 7pm, 2025
January 30th at 2pm, 2025

Written & Performed by Shawn Wright

Created by renowned Canadian actor Shawn Wright, Ghost Light tells the hilarious and heartwarming story of his relationship with his late mother, and how she inspired his passion for theatre and his love of life. Starting from his mother’s birth and carrying through all the way until her passing, topics range from religion and sexuality to country music and Meryl Streep. As a one-man show, Ghost Light is driven by Wright’s powerful stage presence. One minute animated and fully in character, the next conversational and down-to-earth. His performance is both entrancing and humanizing.

Shawn Wright has done 15 productions for the prestigious Stratford Shakespeare Festival. He has done 11 productions for the world renowned Shaw Festival, was in the original Los Angeles cast of Mamma Mia, the original Toronto cast of Jersey Boys and the original Broadway workshop cast of Ragtime. He had a leading role in the 2006 world stage premiere of Lord of The Rings, and on TV he has starred on Murdoch Mysteries, Due South, and a host of others. He has won Toronto’s Dora Award and Stratford’s Guthrie Award as well as a host of nominations for the Broadway World Award. With a 30 year career, Shawn credits his passion for the stage to his mother. Ghost Light is his first play. It’s for her.

Are you a 2025 Season Pass Holder? Call the box office at 613-478-6060 to get discount tickets to this production!

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Sunday, April 27th, 2025 at 7pm

One of Canada’s most influential guitarists and musicians, J.P. Cormier has had a wild and exciting career – before turning 20, he had already become a sideman for Stompin’ Tom Connors and a staple at Studio H recordings in Halifax. In the mid nineties, he exploded onto the trad music scene in the east coast and Cape Breton as a fiddler, performing some of the most difficult music ever produced by legends like Winston Fitzgerald and Angus Chisholm. Born in Ontario to Cape Breton parents, east coast music is in his bones. He put out his first lead album, Another Morning, in 1997. It did incredibly well and to this day, songs off that album have deeply influenced some of the biggest names in the business. People like Dave Gunning, Matt Andersen, David Myles, and Joel Plaskett… all of which will tell you: that Juno-nominated and ECMA-winning record changed things.

Since then, Cormier’s career has continued to flourish. Sixteen albums followed the success of Another Morning, winning 12 more ECMAs, another Juno nomination, a Canadian Folk Music Award and 5 Music Nova Scotia Awards. Each album was a snapshot of each thing that he can do. There are fiddle albums, mandolin, banjo, guitar, tribute records, songwriting collections, a purely astounding spectrum of talent and musical vision. His catalogue of recordings and the 150 or so records he’s produced on other artists, resemble the tapestry he weaves in live performance. Where he used to carry 3 and 4 piece bands, he tours alone now.

Audiences leave his shows amazed and wondering… Did they see a storyteller? A songwriter? Arguably one of the best guitar players in the business today? Someone who crosses between different instruments like there are no lines? J.P. Cormier is one of the biggest names in Canadian music, and you’re not going to want to miss his one night in town.

“…One of the most important guitar players of his generation.” – Chet Atkins

Learn more at https://jp-cormier.com.

TICKETS: $32.50 HST

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*NEW THIS YEAR: You can book accessible seats and big and tall seats online! If you have accessibility questions or concerns please call the box office at 613-478-6060.