Mountain Guide

Bruce Cockburn. Really, unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past four decades and are somehow unaware of his storied life, this story could end now.

Written in blue ballpoint ink on an empty bottle of Fletcher’s Castoria, a laxative, are the words “Holy Water 1898” and the question remains, was it a practical or inside joke or did someone in Canmore actually store holy water from the late 1890s i

The big man with the big voice and thundering guitar will be back in the Bow Valley, July 22 to play The Banff Centre’s Shaw Amphitheatre.

Hot on the heels of a new release, Fred Eaglesmith is heading for Canmore.

Red Molly, a New York-based trio, is excited to play the Canmore Folk Music Festival.

Coming from the left, Australian folk band the Rosie Burgess Trio will play this year’s Canmore Folk Music Festival at Centennial Park (Aug. 4-6). “I haven’t been that far over to the right,” said Burgess, speaking from Melbourne.

Thirty-three years ago, on July 13, 1979, after nearly a century of operation, the Canmore coalmines closed.

Banff’s master of the slopes has been called upon to master the house of rock. World Cup downhill skier Jan Hudec will play six gigs at Canadian Olympic Park as part of Stampede festivities.

What could possibly say Canada Day better than stubby beer bottles, the lowly beaver, the Pop Shoppe, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Stompin’ Tom Connors, Wayne Gretzky and Mr.

Carrie Elkin has had many career choices – acrobat, circus performer, biochemist – but has settled on being a musician. It’s a good thing she did, or else she would never have been invited to play the Canmore Folk Music Festival, Aug. 4-6.