Local Arts

"Canada's gift to the period instrument musical world" is how Frances Heinsheimer Wainwright, artistic director of the Coast Recital Society (CRS), refers to the world-famous Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra.

Saint Cecilia is smiling. The patron saint of music, whose day is coming up this Saturday, inspired the first Canada Music Week back in 1960. The celebratory week is a good time to take stock of musical progress on the Coast.

The Sunshine Coast Dance Society (SCDS) is celebrating its 15th anniversary as a charitable organization, and what better way to celebrate than with a Celebration of Dance. The SCDS presents the Celebration of Dance Nov.

We haven't heard as much these days from noted B.C. author Andreas Schroeder since he left Arthur Black's CBC radio show, where he spent 12 years reporting on ingenious frauds, swindles and scams, all of them told with Schroeder's storytelling flair.

For more than 30 years, guitarist and percussionist Celso Machado has performed on stages all over the world, from his original home in Brazil to festivals closer to his current home in Gibsons.

The Tetrahedron Outdoor Club is once again bringing the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour to the Sunshine Coast.

Young artists and their families gathered at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt last Saturday to be awarded certificates andvouchers forart supplies from Opus for their winning work.

Driftwood Players are to be congratulated for challenging themselves with their selection of two one-act dramas for their fall production.

Marc Atkinson is one of Canada's finest Juno-nominated, Western Canadian award-winning musicians. Atkinson comes to Pender Harbour on Saturday, Nov. 15, for a concert presented by the Pender Harbour Music Society. Showtime is 8 p.m.

Families. Aren't they special? It's the family of poor Mel - all of his siblings - who show up in his crummy New York apartment to help their brother when he is depressed. They talk a lot, they reminisce, they knit, they eat, or they shed a tear.