Second lap of the Canada beat, and the theme is winter: Newfoundland halls booked solid through Christmas, Ontario legions getting the bagpipe treatment, a Quebec Christmas party with a condiment for a name, and a spring calendar that’s already filling up from Vancouver to Montréal.

The Mahones take Kingston’s finest across the water: The Waterloo Music Bar in Blackpool (November 29), then a December run through Essen’s Don’t Panic (December 2), Weinheim, Rorschach in Switzerland, Karlsruhe, Vienna’s Club Weberknecht (December 6) and Steyr, finishing at Berlin’s Trinkteufel (December 11) and Husum (December 12).

The Dreadnoughts have booked two hometown nights at Vancouver’s Rickshaw Theatre: March 19, 2027 with Empanadas Ilegales, and March 20 with Ninjaspy and Mean Bikini. Two nights of clusterfolk. Pace yourselves.

Mudmen are home from a western swing that brought their 14th sold-out show of 2026 in Calgary and 12 sets in four days in Ocean Shores, Washington. New trading cards of founders Sandy and Robby Campbell are at the merch table, and December dates are up: Fergus Grand Theatre (December 2), Goderich Legion (December 4), Harmony Hall in Vandorf (December 11) and Rustr in Sarnia (December 12), then the Princess Ave Playhouse in St. Thomas on January 2.

Rum Ragged have stretched the Christmas run right across the island and into Labrador: Labrador City (November 28), Gander (December 11), Grand Falls-Windsor (December 12), Marystown (December 17), Carbonear (December 18) and JAG Soundhouse in St. John’s (December 22). Then they head west to The Coda in Victoria (February 20), Spruce Grove (March 25) and The Grand in Calgary (March 26), with Kings Place in London booked for May 13.

Quebec City’s Irish Moutarde throw Ketchup Mayo, their Christmas party with 50 Shades of Punk Rock, twice: Sainte-Flavie on December 5 and Drummondville on December 19. The band also says new music is on the way.

Coming through town

• The Mary Wallopers add the West to their spring 2027 tour: The Palace Theatre in Calgary (March 26) and the Orpheum in Vancouver (March 27).
• Skinny Lister ride with Frank Turner and Beans on Toast: the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver (March 10), MTELUS in Montréal (April 30) and HISTORY in Toronto (May 1).
• Ireland’s Chasing Abbey hit The Opera House in Toronto (April 15), The 27 Club in Ottawa (April 16) and Théâtre Fairmount in Montréal (April 17).
• Les Ramoneurs de Menhirs have turned their Club Soda date into a Quebec tour: Coaticook (April 7), Saint-Gabriel (April 8), Alma (April 11), Gatineau’s Minotaure (April 14) and L’Assomption (April 15), before Montréal on April 16.