Local Arts

The Hot Mammas from Vancouver, along with some groups from the MellowTones, heat up the Sechelt Legion this Saturday at 7 p.m. Tickets may still be available at the door. Contact Nikki at 604-740-0933 to find out.

Brett Wildeman celebrated the first day of spring with the release of a five-tune EP, Portraits. The folk musician calls Roberts Creek home but, in true wandering troubadour tradition, he roves southern B.C. working and performing.

"Will you still love me in the morning?" asks the cast and crew from Coast Community Productions.

Humourist, storyteller, comedian and musician, Lorne Elliott returns to the Sunshine Coast for an evening of comedic mayhem and superbly silly musical fun for the whole family.

Classic guitarist Michael LeFevre will bring his smooth sounds to the Sunshine Coast for an intimate afternoon concert in Sechelt. His show is slated for 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 25, at St.

Renowned Sunshine Coast poet John Pass has been short-listed for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for his latest book, crawlspace (Harbour Publishing).

Gibsons resident Raymond Eagle's first camera was a box-style Brownie. That was 35 years ago and he has been taking pictures ever since as a serious amateur photographer using Kodak, Pentax and finally, a digital camera.

The Coast Recital Society (CRS) presents the brilliant Canadian pianist André Laplante in the final concert of the CRS concert season, this Sunday, March 18, at 2:30 p.m. with a pre-concert chat at 1:30 p.m. at the Raven's Cry Theatre in Sechelt.

In Canada, we tend to take things like personal safety for granted. Headlines in the news remind us that other parts of the world are not easy places to live and travel, especially for young women.

Where else but on the Coast can you enjoy a garage sale and a concert at the same time? This Saturday, March 10, the Sunshine Coast Community Orchestra holds its annual fundraiser, The Huge Garage Sale. Doors open at 10 a.m.