Local Arts

This year's Festival of the Performing Arts grand finale concert last Saturday opened with the latest generation, the young Music Makers' pennywhistlers, piping two tunes and closed with the adult Pender Harbour Choir.

Paul Heringer, the carver, starts his day like any other at a wooded campground on the Coast.

The eagerly anticipated joint recital debut by widely acclaimed Canadians Libby Yu, pianist and Yegor Dyachkov, cellist, at the Raven's Cry Theatre Sunday proved to be as close to perfection as one could hope for.

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Graham Walker, well-known children's entertainer from Gibsons, is looking forward to meeting lots of new and old friends at his upcoming concert at Pender Harbour School of Music. The concert is next Saturday, March 19, at 11 a.m.

CBC Radio microphones will be on hand to record two popular classical soloists, performing here as a duo for the first time in the Coast Recital Society's Sunday afternoon concert at the Raven's Cry Theatre in Sechelt.

There are several unusual features to the band, The Colorifics, who will appear at The Club in Gibsons this Saturday, March 12.

The Coast's longest running festival opens this week with a host of community support and an estimated 126 performers, not including the members of various bands, ensembles and choirs.

The skirl of the bagpipes and the boom of the drums will once again be heard over Sechelt when the Robert Malcolm Alumni Pipe Band takes its third annual retreat to the Coast on the weekend of March 11 to 13.

Picture this - you set up a gig at The Club in Gibsons and you ask a couple of singers, new to the group, to join in. The day of the performance, one singer falls ill with the flu and the second breaks her arm leaving the rehearsal.