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Every year, the Goderich Celtic Roots Festival (GCRF) brings performers from all over the world to Huron County. While the opening ceremonies at Lions Harbour Park take place on Friday...
They may have only been performing together for a short period of time, but the intercontinental quartet Fiárock has arrived in Goderich with a considerable amount of musical experience in tow.
Soon, Irish-singer Karan Casey will be packing her bags and coming to Huron County for a weekend of sharing her voice with the guests of the 32nd annual Goderich Celtic Roots Festival (GCRF).
As the Blyth Festival marked its Bonanza Weekend, the Margaret Stephens Stage was also officially dedicated in Memorial Hall. Artistic Director Gil Garratt, left, and members of the Stephens family were on hand for the occasion.
Beverley Cooper's latest play, The Trials of Maggie Pollock, debuted at the Blyth Festival last week. The show offers a fictionalized account of the real-life trials and tribulations of a Huron County woman...
The Blyth Festival's current artistic director, Gil Garratt, was born and raised in Toronto, but he's trying to make up for that fact by living on a working lavender farm near Bayfield while he runs things in Blyth.
While Marion de Vries spent a lot of time with the Blyth Festival over the years, she was only its artistic director for a single season. However, that single season was the Festival's 40th anniversary...
In the mid-1990s, a young actor named Eric Coates began performing at the Blyth Festival - a theatre company he so truly admired - but little did he know that, one day, he would be among the Festival's longest-tenured artistic directors.
The first founder of the Blyth Festival, Keith Roulston had both the dream and the drive to make it happen. The second founder, James Roy, supplied a vision for the future and enough verve to fuel those first few years which meant...
In the barnyard of Blyth Festival artistic directors, there are some who would consider Peter Smith to be a bit of a dark horse, while there are others who might call him a black sheep.
When it came time for Janet Amos to pass the artistic director baton in the mid-1980s after a tremendously successful six-season stint, she turned to Katherine Kaszas, who was still in her 20s at...
Janet Amos can be counted among the most successful artistic directors in Blyth Festival history - and you know that's true because she did it twice.
The first-ever artistic director of the Blyth Festival, James Roy, grew up on a farm in Huron County. His favourite childhood chore was cleaning the eggs produced by his family's coterie of chickens.
As the story goes, James Roy, Anne Chislett, and Keith Roulston came together in the Village of Blyth in 1975 and hatched a radical and innovative idea - to create a rural theatre festival that would enrich the lives of its audience...
Resort to Murder, Birgitte Solem's escape room murder mystery begins, rather expectedly, with the declaration that there's been a murder.
Seaforth Summerfest, which has continued its growth in recent years, marked one of its most successful outings yet last Saturday. The brainchild of Brenda Campbell, with the support of businesses from Seaforth and beyond...
In early August, the 32nd annual Goderich Celtic Roots Festival (GCRF) will be returning to Lions Harbour Park for a family-friendly weekend of music, dance, art and revelry.
Owen Sound-based artist Tony Miller's solo exhibition at the Blyth Festival Art Gallery, entitled "Descendants", is just the latest steps in the journey of an artist who has exhibited all over the province...
As the Blyth Kids Club has continued to expand, offer more interesting programming and bring in young people from all over Huron County, things have continued to get better and better for area youth.
It may be the traditional off-season for The Livery Theatre in Goderich, but the beloved historic space is currently an absolute flurry of activity, which must mean that it's time for the First Time for Everything (FTFE) Festival.
Owen Sound-based artist Tony Miller, left, recently opened his solo exhibition entitled "Descendants" at the Blyth Festival Art Gallery.
When a group of local theatre-goers is heading into Memorial Hall to see any new play by Mark Crawford, they tend to carry themselves with a certain collective sense of surety.
The Blyth Festival will officially name its flagship indoor stage in response to a landmark $500,000 gift from the Margaret and Andrew Stephens Family Foundation of Canmore, Alberta.
It threatened to rain in Goderich early on Saturday morning, which meant that Huron County's 12th annual Multicultural Festival almost had to move most of its festivities indoors. Fortunately, the weather held out throughout most of the day, allowing...