Varsity Open Stage Night
Live Music in Varsity!
7:00 to 10:00 pm, Friday, June 13, 2025
Varsity Community Centre
4303 Varsity Drive NW
Come out and enjoy live music/performances by local talent in an all-ages venue. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. At 7:00 p.m., Get Reel will start the evening with a 30-minute set. Open mic sign-up starts at 6:45 p.m. (*NEW earlier time*). For Open Mic, there will be two sessions for 3-4 performances, two songs each (10 min max), running from 7:30 to 8:15 pm and 9:00 to 9:45 pm. In between the Open Mic Sessions we will have a 45-minute set by our feature performers, Christie Simmons Band. A full sound and lighting system and refreshments are provided. Donations are accepted and go to the VCA. Contact Call Tim (403-401-2816) or email
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Get Reel
Hailing from the East Coast of De Winton and the North Shores of Calgary, our jolly ship’s crew will explore a lively set of songs and fiddle tunes from the East Coast, Irish, Scottish, Folk, and other Celtic traditions.
Get Reel is Doug Wagner (vocals, harmonies, bodhran, guitar, and fiddle), Greg Black (vocals, harmonies, guitar, electric bass, and octave mandolin) and Tony Hogan (vocals and percussion).
Over the last 17 years, Get Reel has performed in numerous venues around Alberta, including the Water Valley Celtic Festival, the Irish Cultural Society, Okotoks, and the High River. We are also the house band for Celtic Folk.
When the fog is just right, you can almost smell the ocean, see the shipwrecks, hear the crashing waves and a tiny trace of fiddling in the distance far behind.
Christie Simmons Band
Christie J. Simmons is a Calgary-based singer/songwriter whose diverse musical experience stretches from renaissance recorders and highland bagpipes to Appalachian banjo. Her elegant, somewhat Celtic inspired originals reflect an admiration for traditional folk, and the strong lyrics and raw melodies of roots/Americana music.
Alongside multi-instrumentalist Steve Goodchild (banjo, bouzouki, cittern, dobro, guitars, mandolin…), Helen Goodchild (keyboards) and bassist, Rob McConnell, Christie offers up an evening of a few much-loved covers, along with original offerings that are a unique mix of prairie Celtic, a little country, traditional folk with a twist of Americana.
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