Niagara Jazz Festival is an award-winning not-for-profit music festival dedicated to celebrating jazz and world music throughout the year with a summer festival in June. Now in its 12th season, the festival aims to inspire, educate, and develop jazz audiences by combining live music with an immersive Niagara experience: food, wine, culture, attractions, and natural wonders. Niagara Jazz Festival also hosts LIVE.LEARN.JAZZ educational events that include Master Class workshops and the popular JAZZ 4 the AGES Youth Competition - keeping jazz music alive for generations to come. The Niagara Jazz Festival is supported by Presenting Sponsor TD Bank Group through the TD Ready Commitment.

 

Fall Fling celebrates all things Fall with pumpkin painting, photo stops, fall décor, miniature train rides, Halloween costume contests, trick-or-treating, hands-on crafts, and local artisans in the vendor market.

This event runs two consecutive Saturdays in October

October 18, 2025 - 11:30am to 3:00pm

October 25, 2025 - 11:30am to 3:00pm

Book, Music and Lyrics by Richard O'Brien. Directed by: James King & Rebecca Ballarin. “Let’s do the Time Warp again!” In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named “Rocky.” Complete with sass from the audience, cascading toilet paper, and an array of other audience participation props, this deliberately kitschy rock ‘n’ roll sci-fi gothic musical is great fun for adults and a perfect way to celebrate the Halloween season! Content Warnings: Sexual themes and innuendos, elements of horror, offensive/explicit language.

Recommended for 14+.

Show Dates: October 22nd - 26th, 2025 (multiple shows - check website for dates and times)

Guelph Musicfest welcomes the renowned Zemlinsky String Quartet from Prague for its first-ever performance in Guelph. The quartet will appear at the Recital Hall of the Guelph Youth Music Centre on Saturday, October 25. The program: Beethoven’s Quartet in F minor “Serioso” Op. 95; Janáček’s Quartet No. 1 “Kreutzer Sonata”; and Dvořák’s famous “American” Quartet, Op. 96 in F major. This concert is the first of Guelph Musicfest’s Encore series, which includes a recital by violinist Sadie Fields (from Brussels, Belgium) with festival director/pianist Ken Gee on Friday, November 7, at the GYMC. More information at https://www.guelphmusicfest.ca

Tommy Youngsteen returns to Tweed! This time, they'll perform the very best of Creedence Clearwater Revival - along with all your John Fogerty favourites! Travel back in time to the 1960's counter culture with the music of CCR. Members of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the band sold 50 million albums worldwide. Audiences can anticipate hearing major hits like, "Fortunate Son," "Born on the Bayou," "Proud Mary," "Have You Ever Seen The Rain," "Bad Moon Rising," & many more! Known as one of Toronto's Best Cover Bands (Indie 88), Tommy Youngsteen is a Toronto based supergroup featuring members & alum from Juno winning bands - Stars, The Arkells, Sam Roberts Band, The Trews, Lowest of The Low, July Talk , Serena Ryder Band along with some of the country's top touring & session musicians. With these respective groups, they've logged over five thousand shows in the last ten years alone. They've played from Canada to Japan and everywhere in between.

Book, Music and Lyrics by Richard O'Brien. Directed by: James King & Rebecca Ballarin. “Let’s do the Time Warp again!” In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named “Rocky.” Complete with sass from the audience, cascading toilet paper, and an array of other audience participation props, this deliberately kitschy rock ‘n’ roll sci-fi gothic musical is great fun for adults and a perfect way to celebrate the Halloween season! Content Warnings: Sexual themes and innuendos, elements of horror, offensive/explicit language.

Recommended for 14+.

Show Dates: October 29th - November 1, 2025 (multiple shows - check website for dates and times)

Buzz Collins has been leaving audiences mesmerized for over 30 years now – from the resorts of the Caribbean to multiple headlining runs at Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas. Much of Buzz’s schedule is filled with corporate engagements. However, in light of recent events throughout the world, he wanted to create an entertainment experience for all audiences that would showcase how connected we truly are. How our similarities far outweigh our differences is the theme that’s inspired his new stage show, “Connections." Truly a display of mystifying mental phenomena, Buzz’s performances are filled with laughter and unforgettable moments where audience members become a part of what can only be described as a mind bending experience! Despite a sometimes intense performance schedule that takes Buzz to locales throughout Canada and the US, he can also be heard weekday mornings as host of the Rock 107 Morning Buzz in Belleville, Ontario.

Violinist Sadie Fields returns to Canada from Belgium to join friend/pianist/Musicfest director Ken Gee for another Musicfest ENCORE recital as Guelph Musicfest 2025 continues its musical journey Around the World! East to West—a Musical Journey presents music from Japan to Canada. The concert in the Recital Hall of the Guelph Youth Music Centre includes Takemitsu, Distance de Fée; Bartók, Romanian Folk Dances; Brahms, Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major; Weinberg, Two Songs without Words; Raminsh, Aria (1987); Enman, Imagined Shapes (2022). This concert is the first of Guelph Musicfest’s Encore series, which includes a concert by the Zemlinsky String Quartet (from Prague) on Saturday October 25 at the GYMC. More information at https://guelphmusicfest.ca

Violinist Sadie Fields returns to Canada from Belgium to join friend/pianist/Musicfest director Ken Gee for another Musicfest ENCORE recital as Guelph Musicfest 2025 continues its musical journey Around the World! East to West—a Musical Journey presents music from Japan to Canada. The concert at Grace United Church, Thornbury, includes Takemitsu, Distance de Fée; Bartók, Romanian Folk Dances; Brahms, Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major; Weinberg, Two Songs without Words; Raminsh, Aria (1987); Enman, Imagined Shapes (2022). This concert is the first of Guelph Musicfest’s Encore series, which includes a concert by the Zemlinsky String Quartet (from Prague) on Saturday October 25 at the GYMC. More information at https://www.guelphmusicfest.ca/encore2025.html

Buzz Collins has been leaving audiences mesmerized for over 30 years now – from the resorts of the Caribbean to multiple headlining runs at Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas. Much of Buzz’s schedule is filled with corporate engagements. However, in light of recent events throughout the world, he wanted to create an entertainment experience for all audiences that would showcase how connected we truly are. How our similarities far outweigh our differences is the theme that’s inspired his new stage show, “Connections." Truly a display of mystifying mental phenomena, Buzz’s performances are filled with laughter and unforgettable moments where audience members become a part of what can only be described as a mind bending experience! Despite a sometimes intense performance schedule that takes Buzz to locales throughout Canada and the US, he can also be heard weekday mornings as host of the Rock 107 Morning Buzz in Belleville, Ontario.