The Towne House is marking it’s 30th Anniversary this weekend with a HUGE OUTDOOR CONCERT Friday, June 16 and Saturday June 17th! Grey Street between the Towne House and the arena will be closed off for LIVE music and a BIG PARTY! The Towne House is kind of legendary among the bands who have performed there over the decades. Nickelback, The Trews, Bedouin Soundclash, The Tea Party, Our Lady Peace and Alexisonfire…and MANY more. Here’s how we can celebrate with the Towne House.

Organizer, Paul Loewenberg, who also teaches Music History at Cambrian College, says “it started out as The Beatles Night looking for a way to play Sgt Pepper outside because we knew we wanted to have all the symphony people join us… Then we realized it was the 50th anniversary of The Monterey Pop Festival, which was THE breakthrough moment for many of these bands… Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Who, Otis Redding. I wondered if we could somehow recreate that magical moment of 20th Century culture?”

Once the local bands started agreeing to participate, then we realized it was the 30th anniversary of the Townehouse we thought this would be a great way to kick off a summer of celebrations of 30 years of great music. More street party celebrations will continue this summer with more long missed bands from Sudbury’s history.

You can see the whole schedule and learn more at www.thetownehouse.com. Tickets are available for the whole weekend or individual nights through the bar or online through www.eventbrite.com

30 years of The Townehouse. 50 years since The Summer of Love
We’re shutting down Grey Street for the weekend. Gates open 6pm Friday, noon on Saturday.
Friday we reunite with 2 of our great lost loves…
Budget Motel – assembling from across the country for the first time in years… the band that started it all.
Far From Heroes – The first Sudbury band in a generation to break through… recording for Sony… the darlings of the new school punk scene of the late 90’s/ early 2000’s… second show in 10 years.
On Saturday…. We will recreate the Summer of Love with all your faves playing the summer of 1967…
Murder Murder plays The Grateful Dead
Whiskey River plays The Animals
JoPo and the RiZe plays Janis Joplin and Big Brother and Holding Company
Ox plays Jimi Hendrix
The Wharf Rats Play The Who
The Beatles Night plays The Sgt Pepper album in its entirety.
Northern Memphis Revival does Otis Redding.
The Beatles Night is assembling a small orchestra to recreate one of pop music’s greatest achievments. We will be joined by symphony players, big band brass, + Ryan, Dan, Nick, Paul, Pat and Matt, the core of the band that has been hosting Beatles Night for 12 years. We will play Sgt Pepper in it’s entirety with Strings and Horns + a few more important numbers from that era of the summer of love from the Fab Four.
and much more!!

June of 1987. The Desjardins family took over an old hotel next to the arena. Within a couple years, The Townehouse Tavern became the centre for new music in the community. In the following years this would herald a change for downtown… the centre of an arts scene. The spark that ignited Downtown Sudbury. Now we are sister restaurants, The Laughing Buddha and The Townehouse… 10 apartments, 25 student rooms, 240 patio seats in the summer, acclaimed food and atmosphere. Hosts of the Elgin Street Craft Beer Festival. It all started with The Townehouse, a love of rock and roll and wanting to be unique in this world.