Singer-Songwriter Will Gillespie performs songs from his original Northern Ontario History-themed concept album and song-cycle : "MINE! True Stories and Legends of the Porcupine Gold Rush" Performing it as a kind of Campfire Cabaret, taking the audience on a musical journey back in time to a lost world of prospectors, pioneers, bootlegger-bandits, high-graders, dogsledders and moonshiners... written in historical styles from Bluegrass to Ragtime to Concert Hall, Hot Jazz, Barrelhouse Blues, Waltzes and MORE!! featuring projected backdrops of original Northern Ontario landscape paintings by visual Artist Susan Robinson and historical photos from the collection at the Timmins Museum National Exhibition Centre of the real people, places and events Will will be singing about.

Opening the show is Folk, Blues and Country Troubadour Brian Tremblay, performing songs from his own Northern Ontario history concept album: "In the Trail of the Black Bear" about the Algoma Crentral Railway.

Performing across Northern Ontario over the first 2 weeks of October, 2025.

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As Part of Culture Days 2025.