Heartstrings & Honky Tonks comes to Studio Bell. Across North America’s grain belt, an endless supply of songs drift from radios at roundups, fairs and during miles of open highway, marking the passage of time as those miles and events repeat perennially to an evolving soundtrack.
Lund’s 10th studio album is a DIY winner. With his latest album, Alberta treasure Corb Lund returns to familiar themes like card playing, war (think Horse Soldier!), and Western capers.
With live music seven days a week and tacos to write home about, Mikey’s keeps on jumpin’. Nearly two decades ago, sax player and singer Mike Clark, now proprietor of music hub and restaurant Mikey’s on 12th, looked around the continuously packed Saturday afternoon crowds at the now defunct Morgans on 17th and thought to himself, “I have an instant crowd.
Shows That Will Thaw Your Cold Heart. The Calgary Folk Fest’s Block Heater takes place February 15 to 17, featuring 12 events, seven venues, and 27 artists.
Thinking about the past while building the future. There’s a sense of optimism glaringly evident in “Your Friendly Neighbourhood Rapper” KTheChosen, also known as Thabo Chinake.
Keystone venue creates community cohesion serving up great music and food over 20 years after opening. It’s fitting that the Ironwood Stage and Grill is named after one of the strongest and most resilient trees in North America.
The Circle, the third and latest novel by Métis/Michif author katherena vermette, begins simply, telling the story of a person living with other students during their post-secondary journeys, but quickly surprises, becoming so textured — without abandoning that gorgeous simplicity — that the reader stays up well past bedtime promising “just one more page.”
Like a page out of a diary you’re not supposed to read. In the 1970s and ’80s, Vancouver-born Art Bergmann bashed out music with bands like Young Canadians, Los Popularos, and Poisoned that showed us how to be young, angry and pulsatingly alive.
Jazz singer Cindy McLeod is passionate about many things, but two or them are front and centre when she talks about The Calgary International Blues Fest, which runs from July 31 to August 6 this year at various venues.