Local Arts

The Sunshine Coast Festival of the Performing Arts (SCFPA) opened this week with nearly 400 entrants, youth and adults, who will demonstrate their musical abilities to impartial adjudicators during a three-week period.

Caravan World Rhythms presents what promises to be a fantastic concert experience on Saturday at the Raven's Cry Theatre in Sechelt. Bill Bourne and Eivør Pálsdóttir perform April 19 at 8 p.m. at the theatre.

Book publisher Howard White was awarded Canada's highest civilian honour, the Order of Canada, on Friday, April 11.

Local audiences haven't seen much of Gibsons singer-songwriter Lowry Olafson lately. He's been away a lot. Truth is, he's been leading a double life.

A small group of Coast music lovers gathered at Gibsons United Church in 1973 to hold the first ever Festival of the Performing Arts, then known simply as the Music Festival.

The magic of music, a belief in excellence and the dedication of youth to improving and supporting their community can't be anything but a winning combination of skills and joy.

Folk music tells the stories of people and places, and Canada's James Keelaghan is certainly that kind of storyteller.

It's going to be a fantastic show. That's the word from several of the students who will appear in this year's Showcase of the Performing Arts at Chatelech Secondary School on Tuesday, April 8. The annual showcase has a new twist this year.

Maggie Spencer is a likeable heroine who has seized the prime of her life - her 50s - to prove that she can sleuth with the best of them.

The Melville boys are an odd couple. Of the two brothers, Lee is the more sober, married and stuck in a rut in the eyes of his brother. Owen is single, lusty and determined to bring more laughs into Lee's life.