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COMMENTARY: Why I built Highwater Show Hall

Music has been part of my life for as long as I can remember, and the reason is simple: my mom Kathy.

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She always had music playing around the house. She encouraged us to pick up instruments (and fail!), and she absolutely loves to dance. She never made music feel like a lesson or a chore. She made it feel like something alive. That stuck with me in a way I didn’t fully understand until much later in life.

Buying into Cavendish

I started gravitating toward country music in my teens. So, when my old hockey coach offered me the chance to work at the first Cavendish Beach Music Festival in my early 20s, I didn’t hesitate. It felt like an opportunity tailor-made for a kid from Prince Edward Island who loved music and didn’t quite know what to do with that yet. That one decision set the course for everything that followed.

I spent the better part of 15 years with the festival; full-time, part-time, learning the business from the inside out. Then COVID hit, and with it came an opportunity that was equal parts terrifying and obvious: the chance to buy out the two remaining founders who were in........

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