Our Ancaster Heritage Day special is back. Last year's show was a hit, and Brian Neale and Northern Harbour are returning to Peller Hall with the only thing that properly opens summer: the music of Jimmy Buffett, played by a band that knows exactly what it is.
Go Back To Home PageBrian Neale has spent nearly three decades bringing the sounds of the islands to audiences across the U.S., Canada, Germany, Austria, Australia, New Zealand, and the Caribbean. He is professionally trained in music, voice, and acting, and he started out as a solo performer playing his own material alongside Buffett and the Eagles. In 2003 he pulled together a group of like-minded musicians and formed Northern Harbour. They've been inviting audiences to dream of sun on their backs and sand between their toes ever since. He has even shared a stage with Buffett himself, right here in Canada.
Jimmy Buffett's story started in Nashville, where he kicked around as a songwriter before finding his real voice in Key West in the early 1970s. The place shaped the songs. "Come Monday" arrived in 1974. Three years later, "Margaritaville" spent 22 weeks on the Billboard chart, peaked at number 8, and turned Buffett from a cult favourite into something bigger: a writer tied permanently to travel, escape, boats, beaches, and bars. Twenty-seven studio albums, bestselling books, a Broadway play, and a few hundred million miles of road, ocean, and sky later, he was still as likely to play an impromptu set at a Caribbean beach bar as a stadium full of Parrotheads. He passed away in 2023 at 76. The catalogue he left behind is the closest thing North America has to a national soundtrack for summer.
Grab your loudest tropical shirt and kick the season off right.
Peller Hall is fully accessible, with parking behind Memorial and in nearby lots, and bar service on site. Each show runs two 60-minute sets with an intermission between. Tickets are available exclusively through our box office, online or at 905-304-3232.
