Beach BOOSTER Radio Podcasts

At the final meeting of the outgoing Wasaga Beach council, Mayor Brian Smith gave a heartfelt address to council, staff and residents of Wasaga Beach. With the permission of Mayor Smith, Beach BOOSTER Media Group is sharing his message here. Mayor Smith’s comments do not only resonate within our community, but perhaps can be related to others as well. All of us in the Beach BOOSTER family thank Ma...

The Wasaga Beach Lions Club is delighted to participate in this year’s World Diabetes Awareness campaign on Wednesday, November 14th sponsored by Wasaga Beach Brewing Company and Beach BOOSTER Media Group . Diabetes Awareness campaign is set on November 14th part of The World Diabetes Day coinciding with the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting who discovered insulin along with Charles Best in 1922....

Joining Dianna via FaceTime for a SPECIAL BEACH CORNER is director and star of “100 Years from Now”, Dean Hollin. Based on real events and featuring original songwriting, stirring vocal harmonies and dramatic storytelling, “100 Years from Now” is a musical journey from Georgian Bay to Vimy Ridge and beyond. Shipyard Kitchen Party is proud to present this moving story of a pivotal time in Canada’s...

Lyric Dubee is an award winning, multi-genre artist known for developing his own style of music called “Revolution Rock”.  Lyric is at ease in playing rock to classical to jazz and everything in between. Lyric has shared the stage with legendary artists such as Buddy Guy, Colin James, Rik Emmett, Richie Sambora to name few. He recently announced his departure with Mascot Label Group returning as a...

Joining Dianna for this week's show via Skype is indie singer/songwriter, Megan Anne. Megan is releasing a new EP titled "Phoenix" a celebration is taking place at Barrie's Art House on October 26th. Megan has been compared to Amy Winehouse, Hayley Williams and Halsey with her unique sound and flair for storytelling. In September her music video “I Want You to Know”, a compilat...

Just for Laughs’ veteran comedian, Derek Edwards will be bringing his one-man stand-up show “Alls I’m saying” to Collingwood Historic Gayety Theatre on Sunday, October 28th a presentation by Shantero Productions. He is know as the funniest man in Canada by Rick Mercer, and the only Canadian winner of the prestigious Vail International Comedy Competition and four-time nominee and winner of the best...

Jeff Jones is known in the music business as “Jonesy” and is an American Born Canadian musician who was a member of Ocean where he recorded the platinum hit “Put Your Hand in the Hand”. In the summer of 1968, fifteen-year old Jeff performed with Alex Lifeson and John Rutsey in the first incarnation of “Rush” as the primary singer and bassist. Over the years Jeff played with some incredible artists...

Eighteen year-old singer/songwriter from Barrie, Maddie Mueller just returned from Nashville where she captured the 2018 Josie Music Award for Young Adult Artist of the year out of 13,000 submissions on September 8th. The Josie Awards are known s the JMA’s and are the largest independent music award show around the globe held annually at the Celebrity Theatre at Dollywood in Tennessee. Her three s...

Just before Election 2018 - Interview with Brian Smith

Soulful singer/songwriter, Johnny Max from the The Johnny Max Band is known as one of the most action packed and satisfying entertainers around and doesn’t always follow conventional blues lines. His fourth album “A Lesson I’ve Learned” garnered a Juno nomination. Johnny was host of “Sunday Morning Soul” a radio program broadcast on web radio Sunday mornings including our very own Beach BOOSTER Ra...

Bill Frieday interviews Jen Tindale and Leslie Cunsolo

Joining Dianna for this week's BEACH CORNER is special guest, via Skype, award winning filmmaker Tom Strnad from the Mountain Goat Film Company. Mountain Goat Film Company, in collaboration with Craigleith Heritage Depot dives deep under water to bring you a virtual experience with a documentary series starting with the Mary Ward Shipwreck 360 Project set for release March 2019. Learn more ab...

On this week's BEACH CORNER, Dianna is delighted to have the beautiful and talented Dawn Tyler Watson, who performed at the 8th Annual Stonebridge Wasaga Beach Blues Festival this past Saturday, as her guest. Dianna caught up with Dawn on her way back to Montreal where she shared her love of music and info about her upcoming album titled "Mad Love" scheduled for release end of Octob...

Canada’s true pioneers of rock and roll, CROWBAR will be performing at the main stage at the Eight Annual Stonebridge Wasaga Beach Blues Festival Saturday eve. With over 50 years of experience Crowbar has a rich history on the Canadian music scene. Their hit song “Oh What A Feeling” was known as Canada’s second national anthem according to Jeff Healy. Joining Dianna via phone for this SPECIAL SHOW...

The Stonebridge Wasaga Beach Blues Festival is from September 14th to 15th with the Boogie Bash kick-starting the event on Friday at the Wasaga Beach RecPlex. Joining me via phone is Canadian Electric Blues, R&B, soul blues, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Harrison Kennedy. Harrison is best known for being the lead vocalist on the Chairmen of the Board song “Chairman of the Board...

Bill Frieday of Beach BOOSTER chats with Mayor Brian Smith about many things Wasaga Beach

Beach BOOSTER Media Group is pleased to share the audio of the Public Comments, Questions & Answers period of the FRAM Update Public Meeting. See the Video of the presentation portion of the meeting at http://www.wasagabeachtv.com/.

Collingwood Theatre is proud to present the musical production “The World Goes ‘Round” at the Historic Gayety Theatre from September 4th to 8th, 2018."The World Goes Round" is a stunning revue of the songbook from the multi Tony Award Winning Team, John Kander and Fred Ebb with non-stop hits as it follows the lives of five people careening through the world of love, babies and coffee. Jo...

Get ready to bring your box of tissues and be ready to laugh at the upcoming Wasaga Beach Women's Business Association, (WBWBA) Networking and Dinner meeting on Tuesday, September 11th. International speaker and number one-best selling author of “Baseballs Don’t Bounce: My Journey from Hopelessness to Happiness”, Forrest Willett. In 2002 his life changed. He was in a car accident leaving him...

The Olde Town Terrace in cooperation with Creative Gal Productions presented the “Soul Brothers” starring Geoff and Chris Dahl, a tribute band to the “Blues Brothers” made famous by the late John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd as part of their Dinner Show and Dance series August 18th at the Collingwood Royal Canadian Legion. This was a very energetic show from start to end and both Geoff and Chris engage...

At 22, he has written for magazines, lectured at Universities and high schools and conducted workshops at conferences on the topics of magic, art, entrepreneurship and philosophy. Our very own talented local, Sawyer Bullock is back by popular demand to perform a magic show at the Historic Gayety Theatre on Wednesday, August 15th at 2:00 p.m. Sawyer hosted his own TV show “Up My Sleeve” on Rogers T...

THIS WEEK, we have TWO parts to Dianna's BEACH CORNER show, featuring up close and personal interviews with Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artists and Grand Champions from the 24th Annual Collingwood Elvis Festival that took place from July 27th to July 29th. In this PART ONE, you will hear interviews from the 2008 Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist, Brandon Bennett from Louisiana, the 2013 Ultimate Elvis...

THIS WEEK, we have TWO parts to Dianna's BEACH CORNER show, featuring up close and personal interviews with Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artists and Grand Champions from the 24th Annual Collingwood Elvis Festival that took place from July 27th to July 29th. In this PART TWO you will hear interviews from the 2011 Grand Champion, Roy LeBlanc, the 2017 Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist, Gordon Hendricks,...

Our first summer heat wave welcomed the 6th Annual Georgian Triangle Music Festival (GTM) inaugural ticket event at the Beacon Restaurant on June 30th. It was an awesome night of music featuring special guests Ascot Royals with headlining bands: Hubbards Hustlers, Road Wolves and Excellerator. Dianna caught up with event coordinator and founder Shawn R Crozier, Nathaniel Porter-Gowan from Hubbards...

Joining Dianna for this week's BEACH CORNER are artistic director, Wayne Buttery and returning EMCEE, Harold Bickerstaff from the Stonebridge Wasaga Beach Blues. The 8th Annual Stonebridge Wasaga BeachBlues Festival will feature 41-hours of live blues music during the four-days beginning with Century 21 Blues Crawl on Thursday, September 13th followed by the Blues and Boogie Bash kick-startin...