A 12-day performing arts festival from July 15 to 26 across 15+ city venues, showcasing over 50 performance companies and 400 performances! Have your pick of genres and visual formats from comedy, theatre, film, music, dance, tragedy, visual arts, family-fare, and more. After purchasing a $5 Fringe Benefits Button, single tickets are $14 each. Multi-show passes are also available. Select ...
At 6:30pm on Monday, July 20, walk over to Pier 8's Waterfront Stage for a Family Storytime followed by live music from blues JUNO Award winning artists Harrison Kennedy and Jesse O'Brien.
At 8:00pm on Monday, July 2, head up to TD Coliseum to see alternative pop artist and conceptual storyteller Melanie Martinez on her Hades: The Sacrifice Tour! Melanie is known for blending reality and fantasy during her innovative concerts. Tickets start at $42.
Every Tuesday evening in June, July, and August come out to Pier 8 and enjoy free Salsa dancing as the sun sets! Receive a beginner Latin dance tutorial then dance the night away to a live DJ. No partner required. Beginners welcome!
From 5:00am to 9:00pm on Wednesday, July 22, walk to the West Harbour James St Plaza to celebrate the longest day of the year with wellness, community, and arts programming. Activities include sunrise and sunset yoga overlooking Hamilton Harbour, meditation, breathwork, mobility and fitness workshops, sound baths, arts and crafts, venders, and local performances.
In an intimate tour group of 10 or less people, visitors are taken to areas of the HMCS Haida normally off-limits to the public! Must be 16+ Adult ticket: $39.32 Seniors ticket: $38.80 Youth ticket: $34.13
Every Thursday from 6:30 to 8:30pm bring a launch chair to the Waterfront Stage at Pier 8 and enjoy free Jazz and Blues performances organized by the City of Hamilton. On July 23, come out and see the Maple Blues award winning band Lowdown Dirty Mojos.
At 6:30pm on Thursday, July 23, come out to the Royal Botanical Gardens’ Hendrie Park to see indie folk and blues act the Barr Brothers. Bring a lawn chair or blanket to enjoy music outside in the gardens! Tickets are $55.
At 7:30pm on Thursday, July 23 head to the Church of the Ascension for a calming candlelit concert featuring music by Arvo Pärt, Sibelius, Cris Derksen, Wagner, and Vaughan Williams. It is performed by the National Academy Orchestra of Canada as part of the Brott Music Festival. Tickets start at $40.
The Women of War weekend at the HMCS Haida celebrates all the ways women contributed to the Second World War efforts including within the Homefront, industry, and Women's Royal Canadian Navy Service (WRCNS). 10am to 5pm Saturday July 25 and Sunday July 26.
