Join us for Theatre On the Ridge Music series featuring over the course of 3 weeks, 3 talented local bands performing under the tent for your pleasure.

Mike T. Kerr Trio- July 11 String Jazz - 2 Guitars & Upright Bass 

(flat-picking, Django/Hot Jazz).

Will Gillespie & His Old World Romance Ensemble – Saturday, July 18, 2026

Folk, Singer-Songwriter

Award-Winning Singer-Songwriter, Finger-Picking Folk Troubadour w/strings

- Nylon-string and Electric Guitar, Violin and Cello

(finger-picking and bowing Modern Folk Music with Jazz, Cabaret and Classical elements) 

The Barrel Boys – Saturday, July 25, 2026

Bluegrass

-Acoustic Guitar, Banjo, Upright Bass and Fiddle

(Finger picks, clawhammer and bowing) 

(Nice, Pleasant Old-Time Country Music w/4-part harmonies)

Buy all 3 for $99 plus fees, (Take your "PIC") or buy 1 for $40 plus fees.

A family filled hour of stories, music and much more created just for you by our Summer apprentice program.

A family filled hour of stories, music and much more created just for you by our Summer apprentice program.

The brilliant and satiric writing of Canada’s much beloved author and essayist Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) is the inspiration of this world premiere. In Sketches of Leacock, Andy Massingham brings together the myriads of eccentric characters Leacock became world-famous for. Often called “Canada’s Mark Twain,” and lauded by Groucho Marx as, “The funniest writer I have ever read”, Leacock wrote of thwarted love, bank managers, angry customers, nosy neighbours, love-struck kids (and NOT kids). They are all here for the fun and Leacock skewers them all with his razor-sharp wit.

Piggyland is an exciting new drama by Durham region playwright, Graeme Powell. Inspired by true events that took place in Sunderland, Ontario in the early 1960s, Piggyland is a tale of greed, deception and the pursuit of dreams.

Concocted by career conman John Laun, the Piggyland farm raised over a million dollars from investors eager to double, or even triple their investment. Instead, they lost it all and the mysterious John Laun vanished without a trace...and so did all the money.

Remember, if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is...