Eh Matertial: Casting announced for Holiday! An Improvised Musical

Bad Dog and Factory Theatre have announced casting for Holiday! An Improvised Musical which returns to Toronto for its third year December 10-20, 2025. Created and directed by the legendary Jan Caruana, Holiday! will star AP Bautista, Aurora Browne, Brandon Hackett, Kyah Green, Nadine Djoury, Reid Janisse, Sam Hancock, Stephanie Malek, and Trevor Martin with music from Scott Christian.

The 8th Canadian Podcast Awards have announced their 2025 nominees including On The Porch With Front Porch Music for Outstanding Music Series, and:

Outstanding Comedy Series

• Ghostfacers: A Supernatural Rewatch

• No Quest for the Wicked

• Opinionated Lushes

• Talk From Superheroes

• The Diecast Podcast

Folk Lordz's Todd Houseman will present Children of the Bear at Native Earth's Weesageechak Begins to Dance 38 festival on November 21 and 23 at Aki Studio. Co-produced by Outside The March the cast will include Joelle Peters, Jeremy Proulx, Zara Jestadt, Dillan Chiblow, Kole Dunford and Vance Banzo. Children of the Bear is an open-world, Indigi-fantasy play about a young, low-income family’s attempts to rise above the colonial structures that surround them. Using a tabletop D&D-style design, audiences help the family either by escaping more deeply into the game of fantasy or becoming the Crees their ancestors want them to be.

Invasion: Christmas Carol runs December 2 to 14 at The Assembly Theatre in Toronto. Each night a surprise guest from Toronto’s comedy scene crashes the show and forces Scrooge and company to improvise their way through Dickens’ world. The cast includes Jamie Cavanagh, Tim Blair, Lucy Hill, Liz Johnston, Richard Lam, Paloma Nuñez and guests including Colin Mochrie, Andrew Phung and stars from Baroness von Sketch Show, Pretty Hard Cases, and This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

Multi-award-winning country group Hunter Brothers released their brand-new EP All Kinds of Country via Open Road Recordings on November 7. The EP release coincides with the second leg of the Homegrown Nights Tour visiting Ontario, their home province Saskatchewan, and Alberta.

Canada’s powerhouse country group High Valley released “Along for the Ride,” the latest single from their upcoming EP Paradise & Hurricanes. High Valley is also gearing up for a year that celebrates their highs and lows on the road with a 17-date Paradise & Hurricanes tour is set to kick off on March 4, 2026.

Cavendish Beach Music Festival taking place July 9-11, 2026 on Prince Edward Island have announced the full main stage lineup including Canadian acts such as Jade Eagleson, The North Sound, Blue Ridge Band, Matt Lang, Terra Spencer, and Dave Sampson.

The City of Ottawa has proclaimed November 15, 2025 as "CKCU 93.1 FM Day", recognizing the 50th anniversary of this campus community radio station. Enjoy shows like Roots and Rhythms, ReFolkus, and more.

“Father Comes Home” by Nina Kaye will be presented at the New Ideas Festival November 26-30, 2025 at Alumnae’s Studio Theatre. A vaudevillian family is reunited when the husband and father comes home from a tour. Though it is a bit hard for him to reintegrate into the family, they soon welcome him back, and all ends well.

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Winnipeg's Irvin Miller Band have released their debut double-single "I'm Drunk Again", and "Horsepower".

Stand up Andrew Ivimey released his new album Let's Go on November 6.

Hannah Lawrence released her new comedy album Still Got It on Comedy Records on November 13.

Canadian nostalgia clothing brand RetroKid has teased a new collection with SCTV.

Saskatchewan's Colter Wall has released his latest single “The Longer You Hold On” from his upcoming album, Memories and Empties, out November 14th via La Honda Records and RCA Records.

Country Thunder Alberta has moved their celebrated 3-day festival from August to June 26-28, 2026 for the 10th anniversary edition.

Eric Kane has released the single “love is a weapon” via Bad Neighbr Records in tandem with his Western Canada tour of the same name.

Canadian country artists George Canyon and Aaron Pritchett have hit the road together for A Coast-To-Coast Cowboy Christmas travelling across until December 23.

Dallas Smith and Shawn Desman have released the cross-genre anthem “One Good Life”.

SiriusXM Canada launched of a brand-new holiday channel in collaboration with Canadian legend Anne Murray. Subscribers can tune in to Holidays with Anne Murray & Friends until December 26 on channel 639 and on the SiriusXM app.

Alberta’s own singer-songwriter ANNIKA and country music icon Carolyn Dawn Johnson have released the new single “Forever Changed”.

Two time Manitoba Country Music Award winner Desiree Dorion will release her new single, “Red Wine” featuring Catie St. Germain, and Diana Desjardins on November 14.

Vancouver roots act Duke & Goldie celebrate identity and authenticity on their new EP Romance and Ramblin’ and the lead single “Outsider” out November 7.

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