Mountain Guide

While the name may be new, band members of The Steadies are familiar faces in the Bow Valley. Earl Pereira, in the early 1990s, was the bass player and a founding member of the popular blues-rock band Wide Mouth Mason.

Hannah Moscovitch is practically a Banffite. The Toronto-based playwright has been travelling to The Banff Centre for years and has written most of her plays there.

When it comes right down to it, music as a medium is pretty much always in flux.

Michael Averill is a singer-songwriter-storyteller, and he’s also a walker.

The Social Threat is coming to Banff. And in this case, The Social Threat isn’t a chain store, but rather a punk band from Medicine Hat.

Christmas comes early this year for lovers of green beer. With doors opening at 6 p.m. on Saturday (March 16), three bands will take to the stage at the Canmore Legion for a St. Patrick’s Day party.

As the sound of gunfire spreads across the prairies surrounding the Métis community of Batoche, 62-year old Rueben Wake, a teamster working for the North West Field Force, is shot in the head.

From the good people who brought you Grease – the Banff Communty High School version, of course – comes the dark comedy Urinetown.

When you’ve spent years in the backcountry, among the Rockies and its abundant flora and fauna, it’s highly likely your songwriting will reflect life on the trail, numerous adventures and creatures great and small.

Though not a new face at Canada House Gallery, painter Grant Leier’s latest show will be of work entirely different from what he’s done in the past.