- City of OM Earlybird tickets go on sale at 10:00am Good Friday. Passes cost from $75. The festival runs May 31 - June 1 at Lansdowne Park.
- Valleyview Farm opens for the 2024 season this weekend, but you’ll need a reservation. The Annual Easter Egg Hunt runs all day, every day including Monday March 31.
- Although it’s entitled Reflection - Music for Good Friday, Thirteen Strings’ concert this evening will also contemplate the season of Spring itself in a new work inspired by the Hindu Festival Holi. The program includes music by Paul Hindemith, JS Bach, Kevin Mallon, and W.F. Bach. Tickets $10 - $45
- The Choir of St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church and the Strings of St. John’s Chamber Orchestra present Faure Requiem. 7:30 pm at St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church 154 Somerset St. West. $22.63
- Local Black dance groups perform at Rythms and Flavours: The CADC Dance Show. $22.63 at Kailash Mital Theatre, 1125 Colonel By Drive.
- Canada Agriculture and Food Museum is open today through Monday, for gazing at newborn animals, learning how chocolate is made from cacao beans, and watching a family movie. The kids can do crafts as well. Tickets required.
- A brand new festival is taking over EY Centre this weekend. Anime Ottawa is dedicated to “anime and Japanese culture takes the form of a fan convention with content and products such as manga, sci-fi, video games and Japanese culture in general. Anime Ottawa is set to become one of the fastest growing events of its category attracting an engaged young adult and teenage target audience.” Today through Sunday.
- Tonight’s Candle Light Concert of Hans Zimmer themes performed by the Listeso String Quartet will transport you to the world of movies.
- Kanata Theatre’s production of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs continues until April 6.
- ByTowne Cinema: Perfect days, Shayda, Poor Things, Drunken Cinema: Beverly Hills Cop
- Mayfair Theatre: American Fiction, Poor Things, The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Gigs
The Ya-Yas - Tribute to the Rolling Stones. Overflow Brewing
Album Release Party: The Wilderness. Rainbow Bistro
HellRager. Café Dekcuf
Fever Pitch Hot Jazz. Art House Café
The Koffin Kats, the Queers, Pop Culture Icons, the Fly Downs. The Brass Monkey
Codeine, Neurotypes, Ex Luthor. SAW Centre
Finely Tuned Elephant. Montgomery Scotch Lounge
Share, with Crusade. LIVE on Elgin
The Sceptre, Ammo. Dominion Tavern
Colin Linden. Red Bird
GRFN. Avant-Garde Bar
BA Johnstone, Thünderkok, the Beta 58s. House of TARG
John Allaire’s 3000th show. Irene’s Pub Restaurant