Local Arts

When the Gibsons Landing Jazz Festival launches its 16th annual weekend on Friday, June 10, three local divas will be full of joy and ready to sell out their gig.

The Coast Recital Society has awarded a series of scholarships to young music students.

The Coast Academy of Dance would like to congratulate their dancers on their latest success in competitions and festivals in the Lower Mainland.

Dare to be Heard, the final Artesia Coffeehouse of the season, is presented by the Coast Cultural Alliance at 8 p.m. tonight (May 27), at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt.

After five colourful, creative and successful years of hosting the New Moon Festival at Dougall Park in Gibsons, the New Moon Festival Society is re-envisioning its format.

If you're crying the blues next week for any reason, join other music fans in Pender Harbour for the eighth annual Blues Festival taking place June 3 to 5 at various venues.

Prepare to be amazed next week at the Gibsons Heritage Playhouse. Internationally acclaimed illusionist Vitaly Beckman presents Sensation of Magic with two shows on June 3 and 4.

Two Pender Harbour artists will celebrate and explore nature through their exhibition Songs of the Earth II, at the Harbour Gallery in Madeira Park, May 28 to June 7.

Travel around the world in music and images with your Coast Symphony Orchestra.

The Bad to the Bow youth fiddlers, members of the Coast String Fiddlers, are hosting a youth fiddle workshop this weekend and their second annual family dance and concert. The concert is Sunday at 7 p.m.