Upcoming Events
PFF 2008 - Thursday August 21 - Saturday August 23, 2008 - Celebrating Twenty Years of Free Live Music!
Thank you so much to the fabulous musicians, volunteers, and audience members who made 2008 such a memorable success!
Want to listen to some of the musicians featured at the 2008 festival? Click Pop-up player for our brand-spanking-new audio player - a nifty little thing that pops up. Hours of wonderful music at your fingertips!
Thursday, August 21, 2008
PFF Launch Party featuring Craig Cardiff (View Profile )with special guest PFF Emerging Artist Award winner 2008, Sean Conway.
Craig Cardiff is one of Canada's best-kept secrets; a Canadian singer-songwriterwho makes folk feel new again.
The Gordon Best Theatre, doors open 8pm, show 8:30pm; $15. Tickets available at Moondance, Titles Bookstore, or The Peterborough Arts Umbrella (See 'Tickets'on the left for addresses and maps).
Friday, August 22, 2008:
PFF Club Crawl - Four venues, 16 bands in the heart of
beautiful downtown Peterborough.This year's the most exciting lineup yet!
Wristbands available at the door; $15 regular, $10 students with ID
The Spill
Sean Conway-9:30pm
Katie Stelmanis-10:15pm
Stavely Project-11:15pm
Rockenspiel-12:15pm
Splice
FM Hi Lo-9:30pm
Royal Wood-10:15pm
Fire Flower Revue-11:15pm
w/ DJ Who spinning throughout the evening
The Gordon Best Theatre
Joe Fortin-8pm
James Mckenty 8:45pm
Timber Timbre-9:30pm
The Harbourcoats-10:30pm
The Montreal House
The Februarys! 10:10pm
Mathias Kom-10:55pm
Weird Weather-11:45pm
The Wooden Sky-12:45am
Saturday August 23, 2008:
PFF Free-For-All - Daylong free festival in Nicholls Oval/Rotary Park. Featuring live music, workshops, food vendors, Artisan's Village, Healing Arts Practitioners, Community Groups, Children's Village, games and more.
Scroll down for our two main stages (daytime and evening), workshop stages, and - new to the festival this year - the Big Rock Pavilion (yes, Big Rock beer).
Scroll down for the site map!
Generation Solar Stage
Our daytime main stage, all of the music is powered by solar energy.
Hosted by actor. writer, and all-round awesome guy M.John Kennedy.
| Time | Act |
| 11:00 am | Glen Caradus and Brock Stonefish |
| 12:00 pm | The Ghost Bees View Profile |
| 1:00 pm | Mike Duguay View Profile |
| 2:00 pm | The Good Lovelies View Profile |
| 3:00 pm | Aline Morales View Profile |
| 4:00 pm | Children's Parade |
Evening Main Stage
Tucked into the terraced hillside is our evening main stage. Join us for some very exciting acts, both established and up-and-coming!
Hosted by musician, author, and Canadian hero Dave Bidini (View Profile ).
| Time | Act |
| 4:30 pm | David and Kelly (Emerging Artist Award Winners 2007!) View Profile |
| 5:30 pm | John Wort Hannam View Profile |
| 6:30 pm | Emerging Artist Award Winner 2008 - Sean Conway View Profile |
| 7:00 pm | The Silver Hearts View Profile |
| 8:00 pm | Royal Wood View Profile |
| 9:00 pm | Bruce Peninsula View Profile |
| 10:00 pm | Grand Analog View Profile |
Big Rock Pavilion
Festival sponsors Big Rock believe in community, Canadian music and a cold beer on a sunny afternoon, and we're proud to work with such a terrific and supportive Canadian company.
As this is our first year with a beer tent, you'll be able to purchase beer on tap from 1pm until we run out of beer, or until 8pm, which ever happens first.
Reusable beer mugs will be available for purchase.
| Time | Act |
| 1:00 pm | The County Boys (Emerging Artist Award Winners 2005!) |
| 2:00 pm | The Last Men on Earth |
| 3:00 pm | Drea Nasager (Emerging Artist Award Winner 2006!) |
Island Stage
A beautiful day, the Mighty Otonabee, and beautiful music - what more could you ask for? Join festival musicians on the Island Stage for totally acoustic, unamplified music in a shady grove.
| Time | Workshop | Musicians |
| 12:00 pm | Hillbilly Music | with Clayton Yates, Jim Yates, Washboard Hank and friends |
| 1:00 pm | Silver Hearts Unplugged | The Silver Hearts |
| 2:00 pm | Songs of Willie P. Bennett | with Washboard Hank, Clayton Yates, Jim Yates, and friends |
| 3:00pm | Hand Drumming | Greg Roy - participation welcome! Bring your drun! |
Learning Stage
The PFF believes strongly that a community space is also a learning space, and a grove is a perfect classroom. Please come prepared to participate, ask questions, and learn!
"If you give people flowers, and sunshine, and food, and music and expectations, you can cure spiritual cancer." - Bill Strickland
| ime | Workshop | Instructor/Description |
| 12:00 pm | Morning Yoga | Start the festival with a gentle stretch! Join instructor Sammi Shaw as she leads you through a 45 min Yoga workshop int he grass. |
| 1:00 pm | Songwriters Speak | Songwriters talk about the proccess of songwriting, and how to hone your music for performance. With John Wort Hannam, Drea Nasager, and friends. |
| 2:00 pm | Qigong | Instructor Terry O'Neil leads participants in introduction to Quigong, which can benefit practitioners in flexibility, breath control, stress reduction, range of movement, and excersize. |
| 3:00 pm | Down With Disposables! | Join instructor Carolyn Ross for a guide to reusable menstrual products! Participants will be guided in the creation of a medium-sized reusable mestrual pad (supplies provided). |
PFF 2008 - Saturday Site Map
Join us onthe banks of the Mighty Otonabee River on Saturday, August 23, 2008, 11am - 11pm!
Interested in playing PFF 2009?
Our submissions are now open for PFF 2009. The deadline for application is Febr
uary 28, 2009, and there are two ways to apply: via snail mail or Sonicbids. To apply through Sonicbids, please click the logo, which will take you to our online Drop Box.
Please note that applications are not accepted via email.
For guidelines to submit to the festival, please click on over to our Performer Submissions page.
