You and your drinking buddy could be drinking Buddy while listening to Drinkin Buddy at this year’s Niverville Olde Tyme Country Fair.

Let’s explain.

Small Town Saints is one of Niverville’s hottest new bands. The husband-and-wife team of Shaun and Sylvia St. Cyr started the duo in early November 2015 and have garnered a reputation for their unique takes on established songs.

The Saturday night mainstage lineup at the Niverville Olde Tyme Country Fair is starting to take shape with the recent announcement that B.C.’s The Washboard Union have joined the bill.

On February 6, 2014, only three months after my wife and I moved back home to Niverville from our two-year stay in Ontario, I got an email from a filmmaker in Winnipeg named Orlando Braun. The subject line of the email read “Menno Documentary Inquiry.”

Federal Lights, the Winnipeg-based pop rock group with Niverville roots, has spent the last few years touring extensively throughout Canada and Europe.

Providence University College has traditionally been a hub of creative and artistic talent in southeastern Manitoba. Now, with the seeming eradication of the theatre department, that image has been put in question.