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Music fans want festivals, and Lake Country's Creekside Theatre has delivered.

The successful Winter Blues Fest is going into its third year on Jan. 19, and a new Celtic Festival has been added for March 14. 

“Concert-goers have been asking for additional multi-act events on a different cultural theme,” says cultural development co-ordinator Ryan Donn. “We’ve held a Folk Fest with live music and craft beer, a Blues Festival with dinner, a Summer Youth Fest with a DJ and free food, and of course the ever popular Children’s Festival, so it was time to explore the addition of something new.”

With a similar casual format to the other events, the Celtic Festival will include three stages, five acts, plus a bonus celebration kickoff with a Celtic Choir lead by Andrew Mercer of Cod Gone Wild. 

Headline acts are local bands Cod Gone Wild and the Malarkeys, plus the Derina Harvey Band and COIG, Atlantic Canada’s premier traditional group. 

Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the music continues until 10. Tickets are $39.99 at www.creeksidetheatre.com. 

The Winter Blues Festival will feature Jim Byrnes and Rick ‘Poppa Dawg’ Halisheff, along with Harpdog Brown & the Uptown Blues Band.  

Tickets are $39.99, plus an optional rib dinner for an additional $19.99.