Entertainment Line Up
Enjoy live music!
Min. donation of $3 dollars for a button to support the festival is appreciated.
Note: Ticket purchase required for July 17 event
Friday July 17, 2026
CELTIC EFFECT BAND
Stage: Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 34 – Orillia
Scottish, East Coast Songs and Popular Bar Favourites!
The Celtic Effect Band is a high energy party band in the Toronto area that plays lively Celtic pub songs and popular bar favourites! Songs like Home for a Rest, Galway Girl, and The Night that Paddy Murphy Died, as well as popular bar songs like Brown Eyed Girl and Sweet Caroline. You’ll enjoy popular sing along favorites that everyone loves!
Catch them in Toronto and the GTA at local pubs, festivals, kitchen parties, and events. Serving Toronto and the GTA, Hamilton, Burlington, Georgetown, Mississauga, Guelph, and various towns throughout Southern Ontario!
Time: 7 PM (doors open at 6:30 pm)
This event requires purchase of a ticket. Buy ticket here.
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Saturday July 18, 2026
STRANGE POTATOES
Stage: Jim Campbell stage on the main field at Couchiching Beach Park
Time: 2:30 – 3:15 PM and 4:00 – 4:45 PM
Strange Potatoes is a high-energy, acoustic-based all-request party cover band from the South Georgian Bay region in Ontario, Canada. Formed around the year 2000, the group has been a staple of the local music scene for over 25 years, specializing in turning live performances into interactive celebrations without a setlist.
Saturday July 18, 2026
Stage: Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 34 – Orillia
Time: 2:30 PM – 4 PM
48th HIGHLANDERS OF CANADA MILITARY BAND
The 48th Military Band of today continues the traditions of its predecessors, performing at a variety of military and civilian functions each year. While today’s band is made up of civilian volunteers, it continues its unwavering support of the Regiment, wearing 48th full dress uniform and often parading combined with the regimental Pipes and Drums.
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Sunday July 20, 2025
KEMPENCELTS
and the
Pipes and Drums of Canada
Stage: Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 34 – Orillia
Time: 1 PM – Pipes and Drums Of Canada (doors open at noon)
1:45 – 2:15 and 2:30 – 3:30 PM – Kempencelts
Get ready for another ceilidh with the crowd-pleasing Kempencelts!
The Kempencelts are a popular, traditional Celtic band in the Orillia and Simcoe County region, blending folk tunes, East Coast shanties, and contemporary sing-alongs. Their lively performances feature a mix of fiddles, tin whistles, bodhrans, and vocals.