The Vibe Hamilton - May 15th-21st

Discover the unexpected with Hamilton's most comprehensive, clickable events list.

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The Vibe Hamilton
May 15, 2025

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 📆 Day by Day Vibe

Thursday May 15th
Friday May 16th
Saturday May 17th
Sunday May 18th
Monday May 19th
Tuesday May 20th
Wednesday May 21st

🎸 Live Music Vibe

Brought to you in part by the 2025 CMAOntario Festival and Awards

Hamilton is the host city of the 2025 CMAOntario Festival and Awards, presented by Cowbell Brewing Co., from May 30-June 1, 2025. With a legendary music scene and thriving country roots, Hamilton offers the perfect stomping grounds to showcase and celebrate Ontario’s country music talent.

The Country Music Association of Ontario’s mandate is to foster the growth and development of Ontario’s country music and its industry, provincially, nationally and internationally*.

Thursday May 15th
Friday May 16th
Saturday May 17th
Sunday May 18th
Monday May 19th
Tuesday May 20th
Wednesday May 21st

Regular Music Sets, Open Mics & James, Karaoke

Check out the Regular Vibe online for regular acts and music sets, Open Mics and Jams and Karaoke.

🍽️ Vibe Eats

Upcoming Events

Discovering Food & Drinks

🧑‍🌾 Local Farmers Markets

🎭️ Vibe on Stage

🎤 Regular Comedy, Open Mics and Improv

Check out the Regular Vibe online for comedy open nights, improv classes and more.

🎭️ Current Multi-Performances

🎭️ Upcoming Productions

🌺 Cultural Vibe

The Cultural section is brought to you with the support of Hamilton Public Library, Author Talk Series.

Attend a live reading and conversation with author Susan Swan, who discusses their new book, Big Girls Don't Cry. In her book, Swan examines the expectations of women of her generation and beyond and invites us to re-examine what we've been taught to believe about ourselves and ask how it could be different.

Dana Hansen interviews Swan. Hansen is a professor at Humber Polytechnic, a writer, a book reviewer and the founding publisher of Hamilton Review of Books.

The 45-minute conversation is followed by 15 minutes of audience questions*.

📚️ Literature, Talks, Culture

⭐️ FEATURED EVENT ⭐️ 

💡 Creative, Crafts, Connection

🛍️ Markets, Fairs and Sales

🎟️ Regular Cultural Events & Current and Permanent Exhibitions

Check out the Regular Vibe online for regular cultural events, current and permanent exhibitions.

🏅 Vibe to Win

❓️ Regular Trivia

Check out the Regular Vibe online for all the local trivia nights.

🔢 Regular Bingo

Check out the Regular Vibe online for bingo nights.

♠️ Regular Cards

Check out the Regular Vibe online for card games, euchre etc.

🎯 Regular Darts, Pool etc

Check out the Regular Vibe online for games and leagues.

📡 Upcoming Vibe

📸 Readers Vibeing 

Last week, we checked out the Road to Supercrawl - Night Two at Mills Hardware.

📸 When you are out Vibe-ing, snap a picture and tag @TheVibeHamilton to get your photos in The Vibe. 

🗓️ If you want to see your event included here, please email us! [email protected]

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