Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Maggie Muir’s doctor told her not to run after her hip operation. But that was a decade ago. So after playing ball in Bracebridge for 15 years, when her daughter invited her to play again this year she became a walk-on with the KJ’s Muskoka team in the Gravenhurst […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILE — “Rachmaninov is every pianist’s dream to play,” says Kyung-A Lee. “Because it represents everything that a piano can possibly do.” Saturday night and Sunday afternoon at the Algonquin Theatre she and the Orillia Silver Band, conducted by Neil Barlow, share the stage for an incredible performance that will showcase […]
MUSKOKA — As of 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 11, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry has lifted Muskoka’s the Restricted Fire Zone (RFZ) that has been in place since June 1. With this announcement, the Muskoka Association of Fire Chiefs has moved the fire danger rating in #Muskoka to moderate and lifted the fire […]
Photos Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Can Mariposa survive without Lightfoot? The possibilities are endless after a weekend of entertaining artists bent on following in big footsteps. Tudhope Park was teeming with talent of a new kind with plenty of potential and plenty electric, eclectic and exciting new Canadian and international artist with a […]
Story, photos Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Judy Collins remembers her only performance in Gravenhurst in 2000. I asked her. “I do remember,” she said yesterday after coming off Mariposa’s hot Main Stage — henceforth to be called the Lightfoot Stage after this weekend’s honour. She particularly recalled Pamela Wallin, a lovely lady who […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — At its heart the Mariposa Folk Festival has always been about Gordon Lightfoot. This year particularly so. Start to finish this weekend’s three-day fest begins tomorrow night at its Tudhope park home with a rare treat to kick things off. “The Way We Feel” Friday evening is a Lightfoot […]
GRAVENHURST — The legend lives on and Rotary Rocks the Barge is $10,000 more to the good. The Opera House was a hot house last night as Steve Rae and the Pony Man band paid tribute to Gordon Lightfoot in a benefit for the Gravenhurst Rotary Club’s 85th anniversary project. More than 300 Lightfoot fans […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Canada Day was a see of red north, south, east and west in Muskoka. Residents woke up to flags dug in at their driveways. And got a taste of back bacon for breakfast at Muskoka Heritage Place in Huntsville where their July 1 festivities began. With 40 million Canadians […]
GRAVENHURST — Summer, Canada, July 1 and the Lions — what could be more patriotic? As seen around town, the Gravenhurst Lions Club annual Canadian Flag program is under way. This club’s signature project has been going on since the 1980s. If you need to contact us because of a damaged or missing flag, our […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Kyra Reed, 17, graduates tonight from Twin Lakes Secondary School in Orillia. Hours before she attended the Grade 12 graduation of her grandfather Mitchal Thorne — aged 64. The 47 years is their difference between her starting out and him retiring. She’s apprenticing to be a mechanic; he’s ended […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com LAKE OF BAYS — Premier Doug Ford spoke about the $1 billion earmarked for Muskoka’s two new hospitals and the $800K for MRI service yesterday, while teeing off at the Huntsville Hospital Foundation’s annual golf tournament on Bigwin Island Golf Club. He also emphasized MPP Graydon Smith’s role in securing the […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A disturbing message painted over students support of Pride Month has police investigating what they are calling “mischief” to a building at a Monck Public School in Bracebridge. School officials at Monck Public School, on Wellington Street, called police to report that students had painted the side of their equipment shed on Friday, […]
MUSKOKA — Canada Day Saturday kicks off a busy day, weekend and summer of music across Muskoka. Tilt your head, raise an ear and you’ll pop, rock, classical and more. July 1 the Muskoka Concert Band, led by Fran Harvey, kicks off a busy day a 9 a.m. at the opening of Heritage Village in […]
MUSKOKA — At 12:05 p.m. EDT, Environment Canada meteorologists are tracking a severe thunderstorm capable of producing strong wind gusts, pea to dime size-hail and heavy rain as it moved north through Muskoka. The rain fell before 12:30 p.m. and dark skies persisted throughout the early afternoon as the Environment Canada says in its noon […]
Story and photos Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Thomas Craig is happy to be back in Canada and particularly Muskoka. The London-based actor — a star of the Murdoch Mysteries — has a “mate with a cottage on Muldrew Lake.” And his character, Inspector Thomas Brackenreid, has returned to Toronto from Yorkshire for the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Ontario’s first new all-season, full-service, overnight camping provincial park in more than 40 years will be in east Bracebridge, off Hwy. 118. Bigwind Lake Provincial Park — which is now a 5,000 acre day park for hiking — will offer overnight and electrified campgrounds, backcountry camping, and a variety […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — What’s everybody’s talkin’ ’bout. “Talkin’ ’bout Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Russia, Ukraine, genocide, femicide … “Let’s put killing aside ….” Those are a few of the opening words of a reworked version of John Lennon’s “Give Peace a Chance.” GHS guitarist Dakota Clifford and student vocalists Leah Church […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — When Louise Jardine walks onto the Opera House stage tonight to conduct the Elderberries Choir in their 30th anniversary performance, they will be accompanied by Carolyn Grant on their small electric Yamaha keyboard. The music director would like to have seen and heard their pianist playing the “Jardine piano,” […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Fans of the popular “Murdoch Mysteries” will want to tune in to the season premiere of the popular CBC detective show this fall for a glimpse of Gravenhurst. Producers, actors, crews, some 150, are at the Muskoka Wharf and Gull Lake Rotary Park this week filming segments for the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — You’ve seen it — and heard its beautiful music. The 1911 Steinway nine-foot concert grand piano that some of the world’s great pianists including Diana Krall — and hundreds of aspiring local artists — have played and tinkled the ivories on will soon be gone from the Gravenhurst Opera […]