On Fri., Sept. 8th, 2023, the crowd in the Mary Webb Centre for the Arts enjoyed the beginning of its 2023-24 season with Chatham-born Aaron Allen who was performing the final show of his season. To start off the evening, our regular sound technician Joel Morningstar, playing bass guitar, brought his band TruckStop Super Friends to play 30 minutes of … Read More

Wow! What an end to the 2022-23 concert series at the Mary Webb Centre for the Arts. Whitehorse with guest Neville Quinlan put on two amazing performances that had the packed house totally enthralled for the whole evening. Neville Quinlan, singer/song writer and lead singer for the Canadian alternative country band NQ Arbuckle, started off the evening with 45 minutes of … Read More

  For their sixth visit to the Mary Webb Centre for the Arts, The Ennis Sisters Theresa, Maureen and Karen returned for another outstanding, full house concert. From art centres in their home province of Newfoundland and Labrador to an eclectic range of venues across Canada and worldwide, they have been singing as a group for 26 years. Last year, … Read More

Review of Amanda Rheaume   The audience at The Mary Webb centre for the Arts on Friday, April 21st, 2023 was treated to a truly amazing concert when Amanda Rheaume and her band showed them what entertainers can be capable of doing. In between some wonderful songs that Amanda had written, she told intriguing stories about her Metis heritage. One … Read More

It is easy for the audience to have a good time at a concert when it is so obvious that the musicians are having fun on stage, both with each other and the audience. That was certainly the case when the Steel City Rovers returned to the Mary Webb Centre for the Arts in Highgate on Saturday, Mar. 18 for … Read More

On Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023 a packed house at the Mary Webb Centre for the Arts was treated to a truly wonderful concert by John Stinson and his Lightfoot Tribute band. They took the audience back to the 60s and 70s with Lightfoot songs that many in the audience may have not heard for a long time, or wouldn’t have … Read More

Three of a Kind    It is seldom that a performer at the Mary Webb Centre for the Arts gets a standing ovation after a song, in the middle of the show. That’s exactly what the sellout crowd did after Three of a Kind’s fiddler Jesse Grandmont played “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”. If you closed your eyes, it … Read More

The Sultans of String On Dec. 2, 2022, the Mary Webb Centre for the Arts ended its fall 2022 concert season when the Sultans of String returned to put on a truly wonderful concert. This band consists of 4 very talented musicians who during the evening each demonstrated their special skills. As well, guest vocalist Rebecca Campbell and Nyckelharpa player … Read More

The Mary Webb Centre for the Arts had a full house on Saturday evening, Nov. 21, 2022, to hear Bywater Call, nominated for “Entertainer of the Year” for the Maple Blues Awards. The audience was into the music right from the beginning of the show. They played their versions of several classics such as “Take a Load of Fanny”, as … Read More

The sold out crowd at the Mary Webb Centre for the Arts was treated to one of the best concerts to grace the Centre’s stage. Tickets were gone by late July and there was certainly a buzz in the concert hall up to the beginning of the concert.   Jim’s son, Sam Polley accompanied on guitar by Tzevi Sherman opened … Read More