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MORRISBURG – “Listening to Susan Aglukark’s music is the closest one can get to hearing the heartbeat of our country. Her voice will bring us together and inspire us.” Senator Bernadette Clement, former Cornwall mayor, […]

MORRISBURG – Winner of three Juno Awards, an Officer of the Order of Canada, with numerous honours in music and life time achievement, Susan Aglukark is one of Canada’s great musical treasures. She has also […]

IROQUOIS – “I was literally the last artist to show at the Brockville Arts Centre,” said noted Iroquois artist, Brenda King, “before COVID shut everything down in February. And I was showing at the Cailuan […]

MORRISBURG – COVID-19 closed down almost all conventional venues for artists. At the same time, ironically, this pandemic has also motivated many artists to venture into new creative territories. Noted Morrisburg artist, Margi Laurin, discovered […]

MORRISBURG –For Morrisburg artist MiSun Kim-Hunter the initial effects of the COVID pandemic were twofold. As an artist she saw tours end, the galleries and studios close. And as a dedicated teacher at St. Lawrence […]

MORRISBURG – “The phones have literally been ringing off the walls,” said Upper Canada Playhouse artistic director, Donnie Bowes, after the Playhouse box office officially opened on Monday, August 16. “There were actually people waiting […]

MORRISBURG – “When COVID first hit,” said Morrisburg artist Dorothy Adlington, “I simply found I had no desire to paint a canvas for a very long time.” Instead, this well-known painter found herself using the […]

WILLIAMSBURG – “I actually had some pieces all ready to go to the Ottawa Art Gallery, three of them, for a show,” said Anne Barkley, well-known Williamsburg artist. “They were all packed, sitting in my […]

MORRISBURG – Durham County Poets front-man Kevin Harvey recently spoke to The Leader about their upcoming Harmony Concerts show at Stone Crop Acres July 31st. It will be their first time performing here. Harvey said […]

IROQUOIS – In a world of COVID-19 reality, artist Karen Fisher, who makes her home in Iroquois, found herself actively seeking out new creative outlooks and approaches. And she discovered, ultimately, that her efforts were […]