We are delighted to share the lineup for our 2024 concert season. Learn more here.
Season passes now for sale online through Tickets Please.
January 27, 2024 – SOLD OUT
Tom Wilson
We are thrilled to have Tom Wilson return to the Folkus stage (he last graced our stage in 2005).
He’s a new man now, having discovered and explored his Indigenous roots, toured the country multiple times with Blackie and the Rodeo Kings and Lee Harvey Osmond, and expanded his talents as a painter and writer.
February 24, 2024 – SOLD OUT
Nathan Sloniowski and Friends
Album release: thE lost LOve letteR to a smAll town
Nathan Sloniowski is ever-busy around town, sparking up song circles, working with The Ragged Flowers, and lending a musical hand where needed. Recently, Nathan organized a series of sold-out John Prine tribute evenings at Ottawa Valley Coffee – Almonte, generously sharing the stage with a variety of local artists.
Nathan’s latest project is a love letter to small towns, written over lockdown, and recorded with some crack musicians at The Bathouse Studio near Kingston. The album, based on his upbringing near another stunning Ontario mill town, Elora, features tales of small town heroes and hippies, artists and eccentrics, sinners and saviours. At times funny, at times touching, the songs paint vivid pictures in the listener’s mind. Based on early listening to some of these new songs, we are in for a musical ride, with thoughtful songwriting, sophisticated arrangements, and room for surprise and delight.
Any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental. This evening will feel like a homecoming for sure.
Opening for Nathan is Kentucky, a newly local and newly solo singer-songwriter, who is developing a dedicated and growing following from a year-long residency at Ottawa Valley Coffee – Almonte.
March 23, 2024 – SOLD OUT
The Once
The Once are one of Newfoundland’s most beloved exports, combining the rich voice of singer Geraldine Hollett with the harmonies and instruments of bandmates Phil Churchill and Andrew Dale.
Celebrated for both their haunting originals and illuminating covers, The Once will fill the Almonte Old Town Hall to the rafters with song, with what Amelia Curran calls “perfect vocal harmonies, thick enough to stand on.”
April 27, 2024
The Moth Project
The Moth Project is an original multimedia production from GRAMMY nominated and Ottawa-born musician Peter Kiesewalter (East Village Opera Company, Jane Siberry). Kiesewalter is joined by violinist Whitney La Grange in front of a large video screen for a set of their own songs and covers, including works by Joni Mitchell, KISS, and J.S. Bach.
Weaving music, pictures, and words seamlessly together, The Moth Project explores the mythology behind them and our modern ideas about them. Gorgeous imagery enhances and underscores the storytelling.
Interpretive Naturalist Tobi Kiesewalter, of Murphy’s Point Provincial Park, will open the evening with a brief talk on the beauty and diversity of moths. His talk features mostly his own photographs of live moths from eastern Ontario, revealing the beauty hiding in our own backyards.
Our shows are still held at the Almonte Old Town Hall, third floor, in the Ron Caron Auditorium. There’s an accessible elevator you can reach from the side entrance. Doors open at 7:00, showtime is at 7:30. There will be t-shirts and music at the merch table, and cold beverages and cookies at the bar. We have a Square for payment, but cash is never a bad idea.
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