Mountain Guide

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.

The mountain landscape is not a gymnasium.

Brandi Disterheft is a small woman with a big instrument. Playing upright bass like it’s a lead instrument, she’ll bring her jazz band to Communitea Cafe in Canmore for a performance on Wednesday (Nov. 7).

Like most bands, Victoria, B.C. five-piece Mindil Beach Markets has a lot to say, musically. Unlike most bands, though, MBM is also reaching out beyond its fan base with a message of an environmental nature.

Once again, the Vic Lewis Band Festival – “The Vic” as it’s become known – with more than 800 young musicians from across the province, is descending upon Canmore this weekend. The festival takes place Saturday and Sunday (Nov. 3-4), from 8 a.m.

For some, November signals the end of fall and the start of winter, but for Willock & Sax, November has become the Month of Ceramics.

While Leif Vollebekk’s new album is coming out in January, he’s still technically touring on his first album, Inland, released in 2010. He’ll play as the opening act for Aidan Knight tomorrow (Oct. 26) at Communitea Café.

Wood on snow; textured brown and gold horizontal grains of wood glide on brilliant white grains of sparkling snow crystals.

Canmore native David Doucette, an aspiring filmmaker, has made his feature-length debut with From Beneath. The film is set in an old house in the country and, made with a small crew and cast, is a character-driven suspense thriller.

The Engadine Sessions Come to the Mountain. Six women – Kat Danser, Suzie Vinnick, Cori Brewster, Cara Luft, Karla Anderson and Chloe Albert – came together this spring at Mount Engadine Lodge in Kananaskis to make music.