For the second year in a row Old Home Week, an annual signature festival (since 1888) in Charlottetown that celebrates Prince Edward Island’s agriculture and way of life, is unable to take place in its traditional format. Instead, Old Home Week presents: Country Days, an in-person celebration taking place within the existing Old Home Week dates (August 13-21, 2021), through outdoor programming at several locations across Downtown Charlottetown.
Experience the festive atmosphere in its hometown of Charlottetown as it celebrates the traditions of Old Home Week!
Schedule of Events
Please keep checking back as the schedule of events will continue to grow as Country Days approaches
Scroll down for Hayloft Patio locations and participating restaurant specials
*Country Days Signature Events
Wednesday August 18th
7:30pm | PEI Youth Talent Competition sponsored by PEI Mutual Insurance | Benevolent Irish Society
Thursday, August 19th
10:00am | Yoga Stories in the Park with Confederation Children’s Library (for ages 6-12) | Connaught Square
4:00pm-8:00pm | Horse and Wagon Rides | Starting at Founders’ Food Hall & Market Main Entrance (*Fee)
5:00pm-7:00pm | Stephen Szwarc | Merchantman Next Door Lounge Patio Hayloft Patio
5:00pm-7:00pm | Abi Marie Music | Founders’ Food Hall & Market Stage
Friday, August 20th
10:00am | Gold Cup Parade Neighbourhood Tour
4:00pm-5:00pm | Mi’kmaq Heritage Actors Performance | Founders’ Food Hall & Market Stage
4:00pm-8:00pm | Horse and Wagon Rides | Starting at Founders’ Food Hall & Market Main Entrance (*Fee)
4:00pm-8:00pm | Petting Zoo | Founders’ Food Hall & Market Lawn
4:00pm-8:00pm | Pony Rides | Founders’ Food Hall & Market Lawn
4:00pm-8:00pm | DJ Douce | Confederation Centre Plaza
5:00pm-7:00pm | DJ Josh Hood | Brakish Hayloft Patio
5:00pm-7:00pm | Nolan Compton | Merchantman Next Door Lounge Patio Hayloft Patio
6:00pm-8:00pm | Open Air Ceilidh | Victoria Row Stage (* see below for Ceilidh performers)
8:00pm-10:00pm | Sarah Eddie | Merchantman Next Door Lounge Patio Hayloft Patio
Saturday, August 21st
11:00am-12:30pm | Learn to Line Dance with Those Line Dancers | Founders’ Food Hall & Market Lawn
12:00pm-4:00pm | Horse and Wagon Rides | Starting at Founders’ Food Hall & Market Main Entrance (*Fee)
12:00pm-5:00pm | Petting Zoo | Founders’ Food Hall & Market Lawn
12:00pm-5:00pm | Pony Rides | Founders’ Food Hall & Market Lawn
1:00pm-1:30pm | Silly Robbie | Founders’ Food Hall & Market Stage
1:00pm | Not All Heroes Wear Capes – Doughnut giveaway with Spiderman | Doughnuts by Design (*while supplies last)
12:00pm-4:00pm | Face Painting and Tattoos with Guardians of the Children | Founders’ Food Hall & Market
12:00pm-5:00pm | Bounce Castle | Founders’ Food Hall & Market
2:00pm-4:00pm | Lawrence Maxwell | Merchantman Next Door Lounge Patio Hayloft Patio
3:00pm-3:30pm | Silly Robbie | Founders’ Food Hall & Market Stage
4:00pm-5:00pm | Mi’kmaq Heritage Actors Performance | Founders’ Food Hall & Market Stage
4:00pm-8:00pm | DJ Douce | Confederation Centre Plaza
5:00pm-8:00pm | Horse and Wagon Rides | Starting at Founders’ Food Hall & Market Main Entrance (*Fee)
5:30pm-7:30pm | Logan Richard | Brakish Hayloft Patio
6:00pm-8:00pm | Open Air Ceilidh | Peakes Wharf Stage (* see below for Ceilidh performers)
8:00pm-10:00pm | Dave Woodside | Merchantman Next Door Lounge Patio Hayloft Patio
Open-Air Ceilidh Performers
Friday August 13 | Peakes Wharf
6:00pm – 6:50pm The Island’s Country Gentleman Lester MacPherson and Jim Williams
7:10pm – 8:00pm Sandra Jones and Jim Williams
Saturday August 14 | Victoria Row
6:00pm – 6:50pm Danny Drouin and Julie Lynn Arsenault
7:10pm – 8:00pm Gordon Belsher and Courtney Hogan-Chandler
Sunday August 15 | Victoria Row
6:00pm – 6:50pm Johnny and Stephanie Ross
7:10pm – 8:00pm Inn Echo
Friday August 20 | Victoria Row
6:00pm – 8:00pm Fiddlers Sons
Saturday August 21 | Peakes Wharf
6:00pm – 6:50pm Nathalie Duguay and Wayne Murnaghan
7:10pm – 8:00pm Hailee and Ward MacDonald
Hayloft Patios
A visit to a Hayloft Patios will provoke those Old Home Week feels through themed décor perfect for photo ops, live music, and signature drink and snack specials.
*Snack specials coming soon.
Merchantman Next Door Lounge Patio
Friday August 13
5:00pm-7:00pm | Shane Pendergast
8:00pm-10:00pm | Mark & Spencer Philips
Saturday August 14
2:00pm – 4:00pm | Adam McGregor
8:00pm – 10:00pm | Sarah Eddie
Thursday August 19
5:00pm – 7:00pm | Stephen Szwarc
Friday August 20
5:00pm – 7:00pm | Nolan Compton
8:00pm – 10:00pm | Sarah Eddie
Saturday August 21
2:00pm – 4:00pm | Lawrence Maxwell
8:00pm – 10:00pm | Dave Woodside
On the menu:
Hickory-Season Kettle Chips | Hot Wings | Seafood Cakes | Hot Nashville Chicken Tacos
Molson Bucket | PEIBC Bucket
Brakish
Thursday August 12
5:00pm-7:00pm | Jon Mathews and Cynthia Macleod
Friday August 13
5:00pm-7:00pm | DJ Josh Hood
Saturday August 14
5:00pm-7:00pm | DJ Hype
Friday August 20
5:00pm-7:00pm | DJ Josh Hood
Saturday August 21
5:30pm-7:30pm | Logan Richard
Restaurant Partners
Several local restaurants want to spread the Old Home Week feels through themed menu and drink specials.
*Check back for a list of menu items from participating restaurants.
Charlottetown Beer Garden & Seafood Patio
Giant Pretzel with Mustard – $5 | Cotton Candy Margarita $8
Churchill Arms
Menu items coming soon
Gahan House
Corn Dogs – $7 | Pretzel Bites – $9 | Funnel Cakes – $9 | Candy Apple – $7 | Deep Fried Ice Cream – $ 8 | Carnival Nachos – $12
Hunters Ale House
Midway Pogo with mustard – $5 | Bill Lynch Lemonade $7.50
Piatto Pizzeria + Enoteca Charlottetown
Pizza: Garlic Cream base, KJL Sausage and Capocolla Ham Roasted Red Peppers, Onion and Pepper Gouda, garnished with Maple Syrup | Old Home Sour
Redwater Rustic Grille
Cotton Candy Carnival Cocktail
Slaymaker & Nichols Gastro House
All Bets Are Off (Old Fashioned Chilli Dog) | Ol Home Week Seltzer
The Factory
Rodeo Chili Cheese Nachos – $15 | Scrambler Sangria – $7.50
Daily events during Country Days
Daily | Gold Cup and Saucer Harness Racing | Red Shores at the Charlottetown Driving Park
Daily| Always on Stage | Victoria Row
Daily | Peake’s Wharf Summer Concert Series | Peake’s Wharf
Daily | Heat Wave Founders’ Hall Summer Music Series | Founders’ Food Hall & Market
Most evenings | Rock the Dock | Charlottetown Marina Floating Food Court
Daily | The Charlottetown Festival | Confederation Centre of the Arts
Daily | Eckhart in the City | Downtown Charlottetown
Daily | Fox Walk | Downtown Charlottetown
Activities outside Charlottetown
August 13, 2021
4-H PEI Poultry Workshop | Marshfield – Craggan Farms | 1:00pm – 4:30pm
*Not open to the public due to CPHO attendance restrictions
August 14, 2021
4-H PEI Provincial Beef Show | Dundas Plowing Match | 10:00am
*Not open to the public due to CPHO attendance restrictions