Local Arts

When The Source Dance Company brings its polished show, Flashback, to the Raven's Cry Theatre on April 16 you will see some of the most accomplished dancers in Canada.

Two original rock bands, one from Vancouver and one from the Coast, will be featured at the Halfmoon Bay fire department fundraiser this Saturday, March 26, at 9 p.m. at the Sechelt Legion Hall. Krome (www.krome.

The Coast Recital Society presents critically-acclaimed Canadian tenor Richard Margison and pianist Kinza Tyrrell in recital on Sunday afternoon, March 27, at 2:30 p.m. at the Raven's cry Theatre in Sechelt.

It all started with Kera McHugh, formerly of the Wild Bistro in Gibsons, and Amy Sharp, from the Manzanita Café in Powell River, laughing together over a comical rockabilly song during a late night Internet chat session.

The annual Chatelech Showcase on Thursday, March 31, will offer up a sampling of the Sechelt high school students' best: visitors can view artworks and films, munch cooking samples from the foods classes, see fashion designs, and hear music, dance an

The tunes may be old, but the mood was new. Generations intermingled at the fifth annual Festival of Wind Music last weekend at the Gibsons Heritage Playhouse, presented by the Sunshine Coast Music Society and B.C. Ferries.

A reading by award-winning Ottawa writer and scholar Heather Menzies is the second in the Spring Reading Series of the SC Arts Council Saturday, March 26, at 8 p.m. in the Doris Crowston Gallery of the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre.

This weekend the Festival of Wind Music brings a variety of brass and woodwinds to the Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons. Tonight, (March 18), Anagram and the Creek Big Band perform. On Saturday it's the Jazz Group of Seven and the Suncoast Concert Band.

It's time to shake off the winter blues and dust off your dancing shoes as the Pender Harbour Blues Society presents Russell Earl Marsland in a special performance at the community hall on Saturday, March 26 at 9 p.m.

Musician and sound designer Steve Wright shows me a children's drawing of a caterpillar under a round, happy sun. When I look closely, I see it is a piece of music, although it is not written in a musical staff.