Mountain Guide

The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies is planning a long-term exhibition and museum officials are turning to the public to help design it.

Canada is a big country as Amanda Rheaume and Marc Charron are finding as the two independent singer-songwriters from Ottawa tour the nation together.

A double bill featuring Samantha Savage Smith and Freedom or Death will take to the stage at Communitea Cafe, Sept. 19, as the last show of summer and the first of the cafe’s fall lineup.

“Now you see why I love coming to places like this,” said artist Jan Kabatoff as we each fired off another dozen shots on our cameras.

Veteran musician Lori Reid will take to the Stan Rogers Stage, Sept. 17, as part of the Canmore Indie Music Festival. Now in its sixth year, Reid has played the festival several times in the past and welcomes the opportunity to return.

Think you know John Bonner? Think again. The Banff photographer wants you to know he’s more than a portrait and wedding photographer. And he has the shots to prove it. Really he does.

A unique opportunity is coming our way this week when young pianist Julian Clef puts his fingers to the keys of the community-owned grand piano housed at St. Michael’s Anglican Church on Wednesday, Sept. 14.

In the mountains of Western Canada, there is hardly a more photogenic area than the towering granite spires of the Bugaboos that thrust upward into the skies of B.C.’s Purcell Mountains.

Prolonged winters wreak havoc with would-be wildflowers in the Rocky Mountains, shortening the summer season to a mere interruption between falling and melting snow.

When Bow Valley climber Karen McNeill disappeared on Alaska’s Mount Foraker in June 2006, the realization that her close friend was dead hit Margo Talbot ‘like a Mack truck.