Local Arts

Keith Picot on upright bass playing with the Cousin Harley Band, one of 15 musical acts who performed at the Pender Harbour Blues Festival June 7 to 9. Capacity crowds enjoyed first-rate music all weekend.

Organizers of the Gibsons Landing Jazz Festival next weekend (June 21 to 23) get things warmed up with one-off music events around town on just about every day between now and then.

If you’re up for an afternoon of hearing some great Sunshine Coast players and vocalists perform their renditions of tunes by Canadian composers, the Sunshine Coast Music Society has just the ticket.

Righteous Babe Sessions

Adult choirs and the kids’ violin group Fiddlers Wild were among the many features enjoyed by a capacity audience at Chatelech Secondary School Theatre on May 29 for the Music Makers Year-End Celebration.

Most art exhibitions are planned well in advance, and the new show at Sechelt’s Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, titled All That We Are, is no exception.

The weather looks like it’ll be on the cool side this weekend, but hey, so will the music at the 16th Annual Pender Harbour Blues Festival, running Friday, June 7 through Sunday, June 9.

“One of the girls said to me the other day, ‘You taught my grandma.’ That’s when I really knew I was going to quit,” says Chatelech Secondary School art teacher Enid Kelly.

Waldorf Ballet’s A Bird’s Tale returns for 2019 with an extended storyline, new characters, and loads of adventure. Three performances are scheduled for June 11, 12 and 13 at the Raven’s Cry Theatre in Sechelt.

Cabinetmaker and wood crafter Brett Almey sits in his ash chair beside a walnut parquetry cabinet, the centrepiece of his exhibition at the Grove Front Gallery in Sechelt, at the show’s opening reception May 25.