Tell Your Friends: Westport celebrates heritage on Saturday, July 16th.

at the North Crosby Community Centre 10am to 4pm, music, BBQ, heritage displays, demonstrations, children’s “old fashioned” games, storytelling and more. Join us as we explore the history of North Crosby, Westport and Newboro.  Share your personal artifacts for others to enjoy.  Check the Heritage Day Facebook page for a “trivia contest” and details of this event.

The Westport Heritage Festival features a select group of quality vendors selling art, crafts, gifts and food.

“The event celebrates our success as a village and as a community. Westport is a vibrant, vigorous town,” said Thacker. The festival provides a chance to showcase the area to new people coming from Ottawa and Kingston.

“Each year we marvel at the number of people that return. It’s been said before; nobody’s a stranger very long in Westport.”

Event organizers say that the festival may join other groups and become part of a larger committee for the celebrations of Canada’s 150th birthday in 2017.

 
Date :
Saturday, July 16, 2016
 
Event location :
Westport, ON
 
Contact :
Westport Heritage Day Festival Committee
PO Box 284
Westport, ON
Contact Barb Lavoie for more information or to bring your items to this event by phone: 613-273-8177 or e-mail: belavoie@kingston.net

Explore Westport welcomes Westport Centre for Creative Learning to our local Westport Ontario Directory. The Westport Centre for Creative Learning offers a variety of workshops, lectures, musical performances and early childhood music classes. It is a special place for creativity, learning, self discovery, wellness and joy. The Westport Centre for Creative Learning is located at 328 Centreville Road, Box 443, Westport, ON  K0G 1X0. Visit our Business Directory for a full list of vendors in Westport Ontario.

Saturday, April 28
Local Guitar Hero/Country Singer and Sideman, Shawn McCullough returns with his new CD “THIS IS ME” and guess what, he’s having his release here at The Cove! With John Wilberforce, Roch Lafleur and Mark Lemieux and Wade Foster, it will surely be a night of quality tunesmithing and entertainment. This night will also be a Westport Outdoors Association Fundraiser in memory of Doc Halliday.

His shows always sell out so don’t forget to book ahead!
www.reverbnation.com/shawnmccullough
8-11pm
Reservations suggested.

It will be a profoundly important evening in Westport on Nov. 7 when musical groups, live and silent auctions will raise funds for HIV/AIDS awareness. “Westport to Uganda” at The Cove Country Inn will feature music by “Romeria” and “String Tease”. Proceeds will go to the Stephen Lewis Foundation. For more information or to donate items for the auctions, call Chuck or Carolyn, 613-273-8249; or Isidora, 613-273-3359.

If you like Celtic music, you’ll enjoy a concert at St. Paul’s Anglican Church on Saturday, Oct. 17. “Crooked Wood” begins its performance at 7:30. When you’re listening to the music, you might want to remember that your $10 ticket is part of fundraising for the church. Admission by ticket only; call Betty McInnis, 613-273-3248.

That’ll be the day, Peggy Sue.

You know: THAT day: Nov. 1, at 2 p.m., when the Elgin Lions Hall will be shake-rattle-and-rollin’ with the music of Buddy Holly.

So put on your Blue Suede Shoes, wake up Little-Suzy, and bring her for some really good “slippin’ & a-slidin’, peepin’ and a-hidin’”.

And we don’t mean Maybe, Baby.

Tickets are available locally at Murphy’s in Westport or Mainly Antiques in Elgin; or you can call Mary Carty, 613-359-6479.

That’ll be the day, Peggy Sue.

You know: THAT day: Nov. 1, at 2 p.m., when the Elgin Lions Hall will be shake-rattle-and-rollin’ with the music of Buddy Holly.

So put on your Blue Suede Shoes, wake up Little-Suzy, and bring her for some really good “slippin’ & a-slidin’, peepin’ and a-hidin’”.

And we don’t mean Maybe, Baby.

Tickets are available locally at Murphy’s in Westport or Mainly Antiques in Elgin; or you can call Mary Carty, 613-359-6479.

Transport yourself to Australia on Friday, Sept. 25. It’s easy. You only have to go to the Newboro Community Hall.

Glenn Foster will give an “Australian Concert” in aid of Newboro’s United Church’s “Save Our Sanctuary” fund. The concert begins at 7 p.m. Freewill donations will be greatly appreciated.

If you want an endless day of fun and music, you won’t want to miss MusicWestport on Saturday, Aug. 15, starting at noon in Westport. There will be three outdoor stages with six superb performers.

Bring a chair; bring a hat. The show will go on rain or shine. And it’s free.

After-hours shows, at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., will go on at The Cove, corner of Main and Bedford. There will be a $5 cover charge.

It will be a good old foot-stompin’ time on Friday, Aug. 7 when everyone gets together for a new-barn fundraiser in North Crosby.

The shindig, sponsored by the Westport Arts Council, will fill the North Crosby Community Hall, with live music by String Tease. There will be a silent auction, lots of good folks, and plenty of food.

Freewill donations will be gratefully accepted. Everyone (of every age) is welcome.