Suitable for all ages.

For your added enjoyment, and free of charge, Puppets Up! welcomes a fun list of guest entertainers who will perform up and down Mill Street (Almonte’s Main Street). Their talents add to the festivities and the daily parade.

The list includes:

• Juggler, stilt walker, puppeteer and comic, Tim Holland, from Cambridge, Ontario
• Montreal puppeteer, Salim Hammad
• The RILTS Puppet Troupe, comprised of young actors from Rideau Lakes district
• Tom Joron’s group from the Ottawa Valley Youth Talent Association
• Almonte face painter, Maureen Dagg
• Ottawa face painter, Aamina Badran
• Ottawa balloon twister, Brad Wood

Loads of musicians including:

• Singer/musician/guitarist, Jake Differ, from Peterborough
• Mississippi Mills Musicworks will present a variety of local talent (including Terry Tufts, George Turcotte and teachers and students of the music school).
• Talented young Almonte fiddler, Danny Albert
• Local celtic band, The Barley Shakers
• Singer and guitarist, Phil Stevenson, from Peterborough
• Almonte’s version of “Stomp”, our own Impact Percussion and their garbage pails
• Old Time fiddle group,The Fiddleheads, featuring Ron Caron

Puppets Up! Street shows will feature:

• The Balcony Puppeteers – think Statler and Waldorf from the Muppet Show, but worse!
• Saints and Sinners, a puppet troupe from Toronto perform “Noah’s Ark” and “Adam and Eve” out of the back of a wheeled cart!
• Aside from performing their show in a main venue, Aboriginal Experiences will perform a Pow Wow dance in front of the AOTH before the Saturday night cabaret.
• Clowns including Almonte’s own Silly U

Enjoy performances by "Saints and Sinners", a mobile puppet troupe, on the streets of Almonte during the Puppets Up! festival.