Past Performances

Private Event

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  • November 29, 2025
    6:00 pm - 11:55 pm

Music, food, and drinks are flowing! Consider The Carleton for your next private party, dinner, meeting, wedding, reception or corporate event.  With a state of the art sound system, award winning Chef Mathias Probst, and terrific staff, we do it all! Check out our Private Functions page for more info or contact reservations@thecarleton.ca. (more…)

SOLD OUT: An Evening With Ian Sherwood

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  • November 28, 2025
    8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Join us as the multi-talented Ian Sherwood returns to The Carleton – he’s been playing the venue since it opened! – for a solo night of songs, stories and special guests on Friday, November 28th. Ian will be on stage at 8 PM and tickets are $25 + HST. Guitar, saxophone, huge songwriting and a (more…)

DOOR TIX AVAIL! Sequin Stars – An Oasis Tribute

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  • November 27, 2025
    7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Online sales have ended.  Tickets still available at the DOOR! ==== Given the current hysteria surrounding the reformation and “Live 2025” tour of one of British rock’s most iconic bands, we thought it particularly timely to book Sequin Stars, Atlantic Canada’s #1 Oasis Tribute act, for night of raucous celebration at The Carleton on Thursday, (more…)

India Gailey & Taryn Kawaja

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  • November 23, 2025
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Cellist India Gailey teams up with songwriter Taryn Kawaja for a very special performance at The Carleton on Sunday, November 23rd. Show time is 7 PM and tickets are $25 + HST. India Gailey (she/they) is an award-winning Canadian cellist, composer, vocalist, and improviser. She draws from many eras and genres to craft poetic narratives of (more…)

DOOR TIX AVAIL! Seamus Dempster Band + Evan Dempster

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  • November 22, 2025
    8:00 pm - 10:30 pm

Online sales have ended.  Tickets available at the DOOR! ==== Seamus Dempster brings his band, and support from brother Evan Dempster, to The Carleton for a show on Saturday, November 22nd. Live music gets underway at 8 PM and tickets are $20 + HST. Folk singer-songwriter Seamus Dempster is what many would describe as kind (more…)

Hobo Aquarium Live Album Recording + Colrain

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  • November 21, 2025
    8:00 pm - 11:30 pm

Local rock trio Hobo Aquarium return to The Carleton – along with opener Colrain – this time to record a live album and would love to have you be part of it, on Friday, November 21st. Show time is 8 PM and tickets are only $15 + HST. Hobo Aquarium is a 3-piece Indie band (more…)

DOOR TIX AVAIL! Story Night At The Carleton

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  • November 20, 2025
    7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Online sales have ended.  Tickets are still available at the DOOR! ==== Songwriters tell stories through music, but what about those with entertaining stories to tell that aren’t set to music? You know, the kind of stories you, or a friend, might relate at a dinner party, or other social occasion? After attending similar hugely (more…)

SOLD OUT: An Evening With Guy Davis

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  • November 19, 2025
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Legendary New York City bluesman (and actor, and author, and songwriter!)  Guy Davis finally returns to The Carleton on Wednesday, November 19th. Show time is 7 PM and tickets are $37.50 + HST.  Guy Davis is a two-time, back-to-back Grammy nominee for Best Traditional Blues, a musician, actor, author, and songwriter. Guy uses a blend of (more…)

Gather ’Round – A Winter Storytelling Event & Fundraiser

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  • November 18, 2025
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Gather ’Round for an intimate evening of wintery entertainment. Special guests from the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia’s Alistair MacLeod Mentorship Program will begin with remarks by Alexander MacLeod, then three short readings by Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Carol Bruneau and Michelle Samson, followed by celebrated actor, director, and novelist Shelley Thompson, who will perform stories (more…)

2 DOOR TIX AVAIL! An(other) Evening With Danny Michel

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  • November 16, 2025
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Online sales have ended.  We have 2 tickets available at the DOOR if you stop by before 7 pm! ==== Last seen during our 15th anniversary celebrations in 2023, we’re thrilled to have the always amazingly entertaining national treasure Danny Michel add a second show (the 1st is sold out) at The Carleton on Sunday, November (more…)