CENTRE WELLINGTON –The Fergus Grand Theatre is proud to present A Field Guide to Rural Living, starring Dan Needles and Ian Bell, on Oct. 14 at 8pm.
Dan Needles is the author of the wildly successful Wingfield Farm series of plays that have been making audiences roar with laughter in theatres across Canada and beyond for over 30 years, eventually becoming a popular TV series shown on CBC, Bravo, and PBS.
Needles is a winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humor, author of 12 plays, four books, and has delighted thousands of readers with hundreds of magazine columns in publications like Harrowsmith-Country Life, Country Guide, Small Farm Canada and many others.
Ian Bell is a celebrated folk singer, musician and singer-songwriter from Paris Ontario, who has been instrumental in the preservation and development of Canadian folk music.
Bell sings both old songs and original compositions, many set in and around Southwestern Ontario.
He’s been a regular on CBC radio, appearing regularly on Fresh Air, Peter Gzowski’s Morningside, and worked as music director for national concerts with Stuart McLean’s Vinyl Cafe.
A Field Guide to Rural Living is the follow-up show to True Confessions from the Ninth Concession, which played to a sold-out house at the Grand in 2019.
Now these two Canadian icons are back again, with even more stories and songs celebrating life in rural Ontario, in all its hilarious glory.
It’s the stories of the creative inspirations of these two performers. In Needle’s case it’s the characters from his life who inspired the Wingfield plays, and in Bell’s case it’s the people and places that have given him the same inspiration through 30 years of song writing.
And of course, it’s all very, very funny.
The previous show sold out in record time, and tickets for this year’s show are already going fast.
Tickets are $35 each, and available by calling the box office at 519-787-1981, or online at fergusgrandtheatre.ca.
