This New Year’s Eve, skip the hustle and come home to comfort, community, and incredible live music. Join us at the Waterford Old Town Hall as we transform the theatre into a cozy, living room-like setting for a night to remember.  

🎶 ✨Music by Doghouse Orchestra✨– back by popular demand! Dance the night away or relax and soak in the laid-back vibe.  

🍴 ✨Comfort Food✨– think classic, heartwarming flavours that pair perfectly with an evening of music and cheer.  Causing a Scene will be on the scene all evening serving up mouthwatering morsels.

Come Home for New Years

Old Town Hall Association

Arcady is thrilled to announce that it will be returning to Waterford’s Old Town Hall to perform its unique version of Handel’s Messiah this holiday season on Friday, December 20th at 7:30 PM. Don't miss your chance to see Arcady’s professional chorus of soloists and chamber ensemble once more bring to life this holiday tradition in Waterford. Known for his dynamic, energetic interpretation of this triumphant work, Ronald Beckett will direct his ensemble in a uniquely jubilant Baroque-style performance. Don't miss your chance to hear the ensemble that specializes in Messiah. Audience members will want to secure their seats early as Arcady’s Messiah is a usually sold-out event. Tickets at $49 are available online at arcady.ca, through email at info@arcady.ca, in person at Old Town Hall, or by calling 519-428-3185. For more information, please visit arcady.ca.

Arcady presents Handel's Messiah

We'll be gathering around the ol' piano once again for the annual Seasonal Singalong at Waterford Old Town Hall. As usual we'll be taking a run at everything from Wassails and Wenceslas to Winter Wonderland. This is all about participation and it's always a good time. It's free, but bring a donation of non-perishables or cash for the food bank'

Annual Seasonal Singalong

We are pleased to welcome Canadian Folk Music Award winner, Geneviève Racette to the Old Town Hall stage. Geneviève has emerged as a rising star in both French and English-speaking music scenes across Canada and the United States. She has captivated listeners with her gentle, yet compelling emotional resonance, and garnered impressive industry support through music publications, and national and international radio support. Geneviève has traveled twice to the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity, and was selected among 150 singer-songwriters to work with some of the best songwriters from Nashville (2017).

Geneviève Racette and The Pairs

Tom Wilson is a Canadian music legend, famed storyteller and visual artist. Wilson’s memoir, Beautiful Scars published by Penguin/Random House has become a national bestseller. In his memoir, Wilson reveals the impact of discovering his indigenous heritage. Musically, Wilson is best known for his work with Blackie & The Rodeo Kings and Lee Harvey Osmond, the latter receiving a 2020 Juno Award for the album "Mohawk.

The Festival of Small Halls: Tom Wilson

50 Mission Pumpkinfest Pub Nite

From the mountains of Utah to the trenches of Vimy Ridge, Elliott BROOD’s songs have

travelled the gore and glory of history in equal measure for nearly a decade. With the stomp

and thrash of their early albums, Elliott BROOD carved their niche drawing from history and

memory. As heavy and harrowing the past can be, for Elliott BROOD, it is also a generous

companion, giving the gift of appreciation for times of peace and grace.

Elliott Brood

It’s the last day of school for the oakwood dreamers, a close knit friend group. They’re all very excited for summer, but can’t seem to stay awake in class. When they fall asleep you watch as reality transforms into their wildest dreams.

The Oakwood Dreamers

Waterford Old Town Hall Presents Juno Award winner for Blues Album of the Year. 

Blue Moon Marquee

Have you ever felt like you don’t belong? Powerless Charlie sticks out like a sore thumb in a school full of superheroes. Smellinator can’t control her powers and forgot to do her Villain 101 homework. Golden Boy won’t follow protocol. And Toxic Sludge is, well, toxic sludge.

When a supervillain attacks the school Charlie must dig deep within herself. She may not be a superhero but she discovers her unique talents can save the day.

The Super Non-Heroes

The rich complexity of life is the emotional focus of the much-anticipated new album from one of Canada’s most accomplished and harmonious trios – Good Lovelies.  

The songs on We Will Never Be the Same, crafted by the Juno Award-winning ensemble of Kerri Ough, Sue Passmore and Caroline Marie Brooks, are as compelling as the engaging vocal harmonies for which the group has been known for the last 17 years as they mine the complex feelings experienced by women who have come to ponder some of the big questions of life.  

Good Lovelies

Live Band Karaoke - The Approximators

Linden’s latest solo album, bLOW, the first outside artist on longtime friend Lucinda Williams’ Highway 20 label distributed by Nashville-based Thirty Tigers, is his 14th in 40 years, but first electric blues release. The title song comes from being stuck inside a flimsy motel after a casino gig somewhere in Oklahoma or Texas as a tornado was about to hit, waiting for the walls to cave in, with his wife, the novelist Janice Powers, providing not only the opening verse quoted above, but the gurgling Hammond B3 organ left to him by his former bandmate, the late Richard Bell, played, in her own words, “like a deranged church lady.”

Colin Linden

The story of 4 brothers told through a theatrical escape into the art and science of piano tuning. James Smith and his brothers have had life-long journeys with OCD, autism, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

Lessons In Temperament

Wintersleep

Doghouse Orchestra is a collective of Toronto based musicians playing a unique brand of country, funk and jazz music. The band was born amongst the thriving music community on Queen Street West, where you can find them Sunday nights at The Cameron House. Danceable, swampy horn and fiddle, singalong swoon and dip into sentimental sweetness kinda music. Elvis, Hank, Dolly, Patsy, suddenly Ophelia, then a little Paul Simon and a sea shanty for good measure. Every show a wild delight. 

Old Town Hall

Dec 31, 2024 - Jan 1, 2025

Come Home for New Years

Dec 20, 2024

Arcady presents Handel's Messiah

Old Town Hall