Mountain Guide

Craig Cardiff isn’t ready to let go of his most recent album – last year’s Floods & Fires – quite yet.

Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal – a dance company which has evolved beyond its humble beginnings of jazz ballet – has been coming to Banff since its inception 40 years ago.

What do you do if you’re an artist working out of a studio in a relatively obscure pocket of Canmore where few people are likely to wander in through the door on any given day? Band together – there’s strength in numbers.

For her first Canmore show, Calgary artist Amy Dryer takes the sky and trees and transposes each, trading them one for the other.

The Canmore-based youth band The Eerie Green is set to release its first single – “El Diablo” – from a forthcoming, as-of-yet untitled album, Saturday (Nov. 17) at Cornerstone Theatre in Canmore.

Like many bands, Calgary’s Bloom pretty much got its start in a jam space. That tradition continues, as the basis of what Bloom does remains solidly linked to jam sessions.

Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen was the first to stand on the South Pole and yet he has been relegated to the back pages of polar exploration, overshadowed by Captain Robert Falcon Scott.

Jack Semple, a guitar virtuoso in the style of Bruce Cockburn and Don Ross, can’t wait to share his new album – In The Blue Light – with the Bow Valley.

Splitting her time between Toronto, Montreal and Sackville, N.B., Julie Doiron is now heading west. The Canadian folk rock singer-songwriter will play Communitea Cafe in Canmore Monday (Nov. 12), touring with her newest album, So Many Days.

Valley theatre aficianados who could use a good laugh as days dim and winter approaches are in luck – Pine Tree Player’s new offering is loaded with chuckles and guffaws.