Marigold Cultural Centre

Marigold Cultural Centre 208 seat not-for-profit cultural theatre located in downtown Truro, Nova Scotia

The Marigold houses a 208 soft seat theatre, the MMFI Art Gallery, the Colchester County Sports Hall of Fame, a workshop space for arts education programs for all age groups, a boardroom, concession area, and offices.

Remember, the Legion bar is CASH ONLY!
12/31/2024

Remember, the Legion bar is CASH ONLY!

Tickets will be available at the door for tonight’s party with Dancing Queen, a full live band at the Truro Legion! $65.

Tickets will be available at the door for tonight’s party with Dancing Queen, a full live band at the Truro Legion! $65.
12/31/2024

Tickets will be available at the door for tonight’s party with Dancing Queen, a full live band at the Truro Legion! $65.

Come out for this extremely special show with local legends The McCready Brothers and rising banjo legend Art Bouman. Th...
12/30/2024

Come out for this extremely special show with local legends The McCready Brothers and rising banjo legend Art Bouman. This night of blues is a look at the roots of music. $30. Tickets available on our website and box office.
The McCready brothers were born and raised in Truro, Nova Scotia.

A.T. received his first guitar as a Christmas present at the age of 13 years. He learned his first chords from a friend and a twenty-five cent chord book. Over the years he has played many different styles of music but at 21 he was introduced to the music of Mississippi John Hurt. This, along with the playing of the Rev. Gary Davis, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Charlie Patton and the songs of Willie Dixon, to name but a few of his influences, have inspired him to pursue acoustic, finger-style guitar. More than three decades later, this remains his main style of playing. A.T. also built his own stainless steel resonator guitar, for bottleneck slide playing. Although finger-picking is a major part of his playing, his use of a flat pick on some tunes have a decidedly jazzy flavour.



Jim McCready started playing the harmonica around 1973, with an old Marine Band that his dad had given him. With his brother A.T. playing guitar, it was a natural act for them to start jamming together. The emotional expression of the harmonica became a necessary part of his life. From talking with Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee at a folk festival in Hardwood Lands, Nova Scotia, to watching his ninety year-old mother dancing to the tunes played in the kitchen, Jim realized that the harmonica had become his friend for life. He likes to think of it as the voice of the old people and their life struggles. Their voice, their story and their memories.
Art Bouman is a folk musician residing in Kjuktuk Mi’kma’ki. He performs music in the African American roots tradition and is interested in reviving and reinterpreting the connections between black folk music and the banjo.

January’s Tide is Avery Dakin. Join us January 6 and start your year off right—supporting local music. $15. Free for mem...
12/29/2024

January’s Tide is Avery Dakin. Join us January 6 and start your year off right—supporting local music. $15. Free for members and NSCC students.
Steeped in vintage sensibilities and powerful emotion, paired with her dreamy, delicate vocals, East Coast Music Award nominee Avery Dakin fuses old and new in her sultry, sun-kissed Pop/R&B music.

Hailing from Nova Scotia, Canada, Avery’s soft-hearted, soulful accounts of life’s most intimate moments are both youthfully charming and reflective of an old, contemplative soul. Cushioned within lush, shimmering harmonies and bathing in soft sweetness, Avery’s music implores you to sway along to the sweet, earnest sounds of a woman in bloom.

$15

Have NYE plans? Come out to the Truro Legion for a full live band pumping out the hits all night long. Tickets available...
12/26/2024

Have NYE plans? Come out to the Truro Legion for a full live band pumping out the hits all night long. Tickets available on the Marigold website!

We’re open until 2PM today! Come get your gift certificates, your ticket to ABBA on NYE, and your 2025 tickets!

We’re open until 2PM today! Come get your gift certificates, your ticket to ABBA on NYE, and your 2025 tickets!
12/24/2024

We’re open until 2PM today! Come get your gift certificates, your ticket to ABBA on NYE, and your 2025 tickets!

It’s been an amazing season. We’re open right to Christmas Eve so you can grab tickets or gift certificates. Our NYE par...
12/19/2024

It’s been an amazing season. We’re open right to Christmas Eve so you can grab tickets or gift certificates. Our NYE party tickets will be available online right up to the event!

12/14/2024
12/12/2024
Your chance to win two tickets to our sold out Matt Anderson show, valued at $170! Every ticket ($65) purchased to our N...
12/12/2024

Your chance to win two tickets to our sold out Matt Anderson show, valued at $170! Every ticket ($65) purchased to our New Year’s Eve dance at the Legion (with a full live ABBA cover band) will enter your name to win 2 Matt Andersen tickets! If you’ve already purchased tickets to NYE, you’ll automatically be entered! Get em today at our box office or online. We’ll announce the winner at our COIG performance December 20.

Imagine the perfect gift for the artist in your life—a guitar tune up and a Marigold gift certificate!
12/10/2024

Imagine the perfect gift for the artist in your life—a guitar tune up and a Marigold gift certificate!

12/10/2024
Give the perfect gift—the gift of live performance. Inspire this holiday season with a gift certificate and give somethi...
12/09/2024

Give the perfect gift—the gift of live performance. Inspire this holiday season with a gift certificate and give something more: an experience. Available at our box office, open Monday to Friday from 12PM to 5PM.

Come out and support Truro’s legend, tonight! Tickets are still available online and at our box office. It isn’t Christ...
12/08/2024

Come out and support Truro’s legend, tonight! Tickets are still available online and at our box office. It isn’t Christmas without Ashton. 🎄

HEADS UP! This is your notice that Adam Baldwin’s February 9 show is 75% sold out—and that other 25% isn’t going to last...
12/07/2024

HEADS UP! This is your notice that Adam Baldwin’s February 9 show is 75% sold out—and that other 25% isn’t going to last long! Grab them now at our website!

Come enjoy a night with Lennie!
12/07/2024

Come enjoy a night with Lennie!

Join us at the Marigold Cultural Centre tonight or tomorrow afternoon at the Miles MacDonald Performance Centre! There are a few tickets left: lenniegallant.com

We also have a new Christmas t-shirts this year, available to purchase at shows! Lennie has an awesome band who side hustle as models !

Get your tickets soon! Selling out fast!
12/06/2024

Get your tickets soon! Selling out fast!

Tickets on Sale Friday, December 6, at noon. Earlier for members.

Address

605 Prince Street
Truro, NS
B2N1G2

Opening Hours

Monday 12pm - 5pm
Tuesday 12pm - 5pm
Wednesday 12pm - 5pm
Thursday 12pm - 5pm
Friday 12pm - 5pm

Telephone

+19028974004

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The hottest NYE party in Truro. Come dance your 2024 away with us at the Truro Legion. $65. Get one entry per ticket to a draw for Matt Andersen tickets (sold out show--$170 value). Support the Truro Legion, support the Marigold, and support having the time of your life. Tickets available at our website and box office.

SUBVert Lineup Announcement
SUBVert Lineup Announcement

SUBVert: January 31: George Mooring (NS), The Orchids (NS), Motherhood (NB). February 22: Shadowfolk (NS), Bologna Colorado (NS), Force Fields (NB). March 8: Verry Gerry (NS), Scott Nicks (NS). Shows are door cover, $10-20 (you choose). In the Marigold lobby, blacked out windows. 8PM. All ages. This is just the beginning. A summer lineup is coming. Don’t get any big ideas. #subvert #subvertus

Truro. We love you. And we love your music. That’s why we’re starting SUBVert. A series that rethinks live performance in Truro and brings a constant rush of new music to town. A project that puts musicians together. And that connects Truro with itself. Shows starting January 17 in the Marigold (like you’ve never seen it before). The lineup is announced November 22. Come experience a new creative landscape.

Centennial Cinemas, 1992
Centennial Cinemas, 1992

Happy Thanksgiving weekend. We’re thankful for our beautiful, longstanding building. The rooms that make music, theatre, art, and community possible. We’re proud to be one of the many hubs of events and culture in Truro. We’re proud to work in Nova Scotia’s live music capital. And we’re thankful for all the people that make our building live! We also recognize the challenging and dark history around Thanksgiving. That the celebration and sharing took place before the arrival of colonizers. And that reconciliation is based in remembering and working towards a better future. It is active and ongoing and takes work and effort. As we celebrate, and be thankful, it’s simple and beautiful to take a moment to remember that we live on unceded territory. And to learn more about treaties and the Indigenous people who have stewarded this land since long before our Thanksgiving dinners.

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About the Marigold...

For a number of years, the town of Truro lacked an arts and cultural centre to host various live performances and arts education programs. When the former Centennial Theatre, located in the heart of Truro, became available, a plan to purchase and develop the facility into that long-awaited venue was created. That plan resulted in the money for both the purchase and the renovation of the facility being raised through a Community Economic Development Investment Funds cooperative venture.

The Centre houses a 208-seat theatre, a small art gallery, a workshop space for arts-in-education programming, a sports heritage hall, a boardroom, a concession area, and offices. With the strong support of the community and various organizations, the Marigold Cultural Centre provides a variety of cultural programming to a large number of Truro-area residents, while also providing a major downtown focus for economic development.