Local Arts

In January, 1999, Nils Von Hahn sat on the back deck of the Gumboot Café in Roberts Creek sipping a hot drink made by the iconic Juice Lady, Erica Snowlake, who Von Hahn calls the Queen of the Elphinstone Faerie Tribe.

The successful Sunshine Coast Festival of the Performing Arts wrapped up last weekend with the well-attended festival highlights concert at the Raven's Cry Theatre in Sechelt.

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While Erin Macdonald was growing up in Gibsons, she performed on the bagpipes or sax, occasionally switching to the violin in her role as a Coast String Fiddler.

If you've ever studied a painting of fruit in a bowl or flowers in a vase and wondered why the artist even bothered, then the next show at Gibsons' Westwind Gallery opening on May 15 could be for you.

An afternoon of splendid guitar music is in store on Sunday, May 16 when the Steve Dawson Trio comes to the Pender Harbour School of Music. Dawson is an accomplished Canadian guitarist and multi-instrumentalist.

GLASS Youth Choir and Stained Glass will perform a benefit concert in support of the St. John's United Church Benevolent Fund, Sunshine Coast Food Bank and the Gibsons Harvest of Hope Food Bank on Saturday, May 8, at St.

Jan Einarson is a registered nurse who currently works at a Gibsons care home, mostly in the role of staff education - not the person you would expect to turn playwright and stand-up comedian, especially since her play explores the dark side of her l

The Elphinstone Secondary School jazz band has been selected for MusicFest Canada, the 38th annual national music festival in Ottawa that brings together more than 10,000 of Canada's young musicians.

Seven books and their authors were honoured last Saturday when the 2010 BC Book Prizes were awarded at Government House in Victoria.