Music

Deer Tick performs at the 45th Calgary Folk Music Festival.

Sled Island guest curators Show Me The Body shows us the music

Hangman Pencil Co. release their album, As Dark As It Seems at the Ironwood Stage & Grill May 31. For information, visit ironwoodstage.ca

Festival Hall, the 200-seat venue owned and operated by the Folk Festival Society of Calgary — the same people who bring you the annual summer Folk Music Festival — officially opened in January 2013 after some “soft opening” events the year before.

Three years of filming, 24 global locations, hundreds of whales including humpbacks, belugas, narwhals, orcas and sperm whales, and the world-renowned expertise of explorer and photographer Brian Skerry and Academy Award-winning filmmaker James Cameron have all gone into making the National Geographic series, Secrets of Whales.

Alberta singer/songwriters John Wort Hannam and T. Buckley come together in a new duo. Years ago, at a now-defunct songwriting contest jointly produced by the Calgary Folk Fest and The Ship & Anchor, master songwriter John Wort Hannam first heard Calgary’s T. Buckley (Tim), who would become his future writing companion in their duo The Woodshed.