New Show Posting!

Thursday, July 3rd, 2025
Doors open 7pm, show starts 8pm

Come dig some local talent with country musician Cam Galloway from Bracebridge, Ontario. Cam will kick off an early start to the Canada Day long weekend at Duke's in Port Carling. Cam is a singer/songwriter, and current finalist in the Country Rising Talent Competition. Come ready to hear some of your favourite tunes, and hear some new favourites written by Cam himself. Buy tickets in advance to choose your seat and reserve your spot, as space is limited.

Tickets to go see Cam will go on sale on Friday June 27th at noon - so set your reminders to get your tickets!

The Week Before The Week Of

It’s getting real.
As I write - I can hear the plumbers downstairs, and I’m surrounded by a collection of chairs, sound equipment, fridges, sinks and tools. Today it has been raining all day (as you know), but all the pieces are starting to come together, which they better be, our first show is next Thursday!

This space has been many years in the making. Since Jeremy and I purchased Duke’s in 2011, we’ve been planning for some live music in the building. As our kids have grown to be 14 and 11 years old, they have brainstormed with us as to how and when the music will come to Duke’s.

In 2014, we hosted the Good Lovelies for a one-time concert in the then-active boat building space. This show was inspired by Wendy Nicholson, who had hired Craig Cardiff to come and play at Kerr Park for her birthday. I loved the idea. And so, though it was definitely not my birthday (since that’s in February), we had the Good Lovelies come and do a concert just for the enjoyment of it. As a sound check, they did a little 30 minute concert for our kids, their kids and some other kids in the area (ours were 3yrs and 1yr old at that time). The main show later that night was for a sold out audience of 85 people, catered by Grand Electric.

As we get the space ready for our first show next week, I thought I would start a news feed, to track the progress, document the shows, and help us remember the history of the space in years to come.

Today and tomorrow, we have Fixtures doing the plumbing for the new washrooms, the kitchen and the bar. Last week we had Klos Concepts doing some electrical for us so that we have receptacles to plug in the various lights we are putting together, and to power our sound equipment that we picked up last week from Currie’s Music.

I’m sitting down now to get our first food orders in for next week for when Tobin Spring is coming to kick it off for the summer. We can’t wait to celebrate with those that join us next Thursday. Many have asked - tickets go on sale tomorrow at noon!

Thanks for following - let us know any requests for acts in the comments and we’ll see what we can do!