Local Arts

The first Coast Festival of Wind Music is slated for March 3 and 4 at the Heritage Playhouse. Presented by the Sunshine Coast Music Society, this should be quite the weekend. The ever-popular Creek Big Band (CBB) is first up.

The Sunshine Coast Arts Council is pleased to present the work of two photographers at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre Gallery. The exhibitors from Feb. 21 through March 25 are Heather Conn and Florence Debeugny.

Artist Natalie Grambow of Roberts Creek has had a passion for textiles for a very long time. Her interest has taken her all over the world: she's learned techniques in India, Nepal and China and has studied the art of batik in Thailand and Indonesia.

It would not be an overstatement to describe Glenda Rae's voice as one of the great instruments in global popular music. Her gift is singular and doesn't suffer for lack of commercial exposure.

No longer will Roberts Creek resident Jane David-son leave her house in the early morning darkness and commute to her job in Vancouver, only to return in the darkness. "Commuting is a weird life," she said.

It was a good year for the Driftwood Players.

David Gogo warmed up the winter in 2004 and he's set to do it again. On Saturday, Feb. 10, David Gogo reappears at Roberts Creek Hall for another sizzling session of delta blues in a fundraiser for Dakota Ridge Winter Recreation Society.

The first reading of the Suns-hine Coast Arts Council's spring series will be held at the Arts Centre in Sechelt on Friday, Feb. 9, at 8 p.m. Admission is free, courtesy of Canada Council.

What will the Sunshine Coast arts, culture and heritage scene look like in the year 2017? In the next couple of months the community will have an opportunity to discuss and answer that question.

Outside the Raven's Cry Theatre last Sunday all was dark and gloomy. Inside, all was golden. Sara Davis Buechner, pianist, was giving a concert for the Coast Recital Society's full house of classical music fans.