music
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From Guinea with love — and acrobatics!
Culturally rich circus performance with West African roots GUELPH, ON March 27, 2025 — Experience immense talent, stunning choreography, costumes, and music in Cirque Kalabanté – Afrique En Cirque. This feast for the eyes and ears takes River Run Centre’s Main Stage on Tuesday, April 15 at 7 p.m. Part of the Wooly Family…
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The North Sound tells important stories through song
Husband-and-wife duo offer Indigenous culture and history with heartfelt lyrics and harmonies GUELPH, ON March 13, 2025 — This will be a touching evening of musical storytelling by The North Sound, a partnership between lead singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Forrest Eaglespeaker, and vocalist and composer Nevada Eaglespeaker. Both gracious and graceful, they play River Run…
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Hey! Bring on the bagpipes and kilts for a night of Electric Celtic rock
Mudmen are set to bring the house down, yet again GUELPH, ON February 27, 2025 — Canada’s favourite Celtic rockers return to River Run Centre’s Main Stage on Saturday, March 22 at 8 p.m. With over 3,000 shows to date, these guys know how to put on a good show and have a blast while…
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Dance your cares away with Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock Live
The first ever, live musical Fraggle Rock show is coming to Guelph GUELPH, ON February 20, 2025 – Jim Henson’s musical, fun-loving Fraggles are dancing their cares away across North America and coming to River Run Centre’s Main Stage. Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock Live is the first ever live show based…
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Birds of a feather – dance together!
Break-in River Run’s dance floor at Flamingos’ Vinyl Release Party GUELPH, ON January 30, 2025 — Guelph’s best-dressed cover band plays what people want to hear —the best hits from across the decades. A Flamingos’ show is always a party and this show — celebrating great hits not by the band and new music from…
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Out of the woodwork with brand new album
JUNO-winning Finger Eleven is back after a seven-year (plus) hiatus GUELPH, ON January 28, 2025 — After their 2015 album Five Crooked Lines, Finger Eleven took a well-deserved and much needed break from recording music to focus on their personal lives. Now, they are back with new music full of more passion and pride than…
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Life is like riding a bicycle…
Charming show for all ages offers a poetic, entertaining story with a bicycle at its centre GUELPH, ON January 14, 2025 — This amusing one-man show tells a touching story full of rich imagery without using any words. Life-Cycle playfully combines acrobatics, illusion, mime, and music. Presented as part of River Run Centre’s Wooly Family…
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The boom of YAMATO Drummers — A feast for the senses
Based in Japan, this group uses drums of their homeland to spread joy around the world GUELPH, ON December 19, 2024 — YAMATO Drummers deliver a powerful production of “physical music” — something beyond what is often captured by the word “performance.” Their versatile drumming styles coupled with unique movements, a stunning set, costumes,…