Festival Passes on sale May 27!
Available until June 30 or while supplies last. These sell out every year!
Passes are $200 and include access to a special pass holders only concert!
Single Tickets go on sale on July 3.
Passes are available through the Roxy Box Office:
519 371-2833 | boxoffice@roxytheatre.ca
251 9th St. East, Owen Sound, ON, N4K 1N8
Tuesday-Friday 10am-2pm
Saturday-Monday CLOSED
YOUR 2025 FESTIVAL PASS INCLUDES:
NEW THIS YEAR
SweetWater Pass Holders Concert
Wednesday, September 17, 7:00pm
Surprise Venue
An awe inspiring evening of music and fun exclusively for our festival pass holders! You'll hear SweetWater artists perform the chamber music you love and be delighted by some special surprises along the way.
Thursday, September 18, 7:00pm
Harmony Centre
890 4th Avenue East, Owen Sound, ON
Moira Smiley & The Rhizome Quartet
Singer, composer, and song-collector Moira Smiley has sung in arenas, cathedrals, kitchens, back porches, sound stages, and on glaciers. She’s performed with the likes of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, New World Symphony, and The Lyris String Quartet.
Chamber Music Under A Starry Sky
Friday, September 19, 7:00pm
Historic Leith Church
419134 Tom Thomson Lane, Leith, ON
Enjoy a lantern-lit evening of chamber music in beautiful Leith Church featuring our SweetWater festival artists. Plus enjoy a reception for the entire audience after the concert!
Castle in the Sky: Where Voices and Instruments Meet
Saturday, September 20, 7:00pm
Georgian Shores United Church
997 4th Avenue East, Owen Sound, ON
This moving evening of music will explore the play of music with and without words.
Late Night Jazz
with Hilario Duran Trio
Saturday, September 20, 9:30pm
Harmony Centre
890 4th Avenue East, Owen Sound, ON
Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante
Sunday, September 21, 3:00pm
Meaford United Church
7 Boucher Street East, Meaford, ON
Our epic not-to-be-missed festival finale will feature Keith Hamm (viola) and Edwin Huizinga (violin) and friends performing Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante and more.
Edwin Huizinga
Artistic Director
Edwin Huizinga is an accomplished violinist, a fiddler, a composer, and an improviser. Along with his role as SweetWater Artistic Director (he assumed this position in October 2019), he performs regularly with the folk and baroque duo Fire & Grace and internationally-acclaimed early music, 12-piece baroque ensemble ACRONYM.
He has performed with orchestras and ensembles worldwide including Carmel Bach Festival, Amsterdam Conservatory, Baroque Orchestra, and Tafelmusik. Huizinga has released numerous recordings including Partita Americana, fusing classical and bluegrass music. He premiered a new composition commissioned by Opera Atelier for soprano Measha Brueggergosman in late October 2020.
This coming year he will premiere another composition commissioned by the National Arts Centre. Huizinga is also Baroque and Classical Academy Director for the Carmel Bach Festival.
Artistic Director Partner: Betty and Joe Gray Family Foundation
SweetWater 2025 is supported by
Betty & Joe Gray Foundation
The Medley Family