Mountain Guide

Like millions do every year, in August 2010, Doug and Karen Urquhart visited the Canadian Rockies. Back home in Atlanta, Georgia, however, their relationship with the Rockies had just begun.

The prince of piano is returning to the Valley. Royal Wood, riding the crest of his latest album – We Were Born To Glory – will roll into Communitea Café in Canmore on Wednesday (Oct. 24).

With a newly released album out – The Beautiful Wild – Jenn Grant is coming to Canmore. Playing a double bill with Cuff The Duke, the show takes place on Sunday (Oct. 14) at Communitea Café.

Pushing the boundaries of comedy and music, experimental performance artist Reggie Watts is coming to Banff. He’ll perform at The Club at The Banff Centre, Wednesday (Oct. 17). The show is by donation.

The foul stench of GrimSkunk is set to return. The Montreal-based punk-metal group plays Wild Bill’s in Banff on Sunday (Oct. 14) and the Drake Inn in Canmore, Tuesday (Oct. 16).

With fall here and winter approaching, now might be the ideal time to ponder the quilting world and what it has to offer. Much of what it has to offer will be on display, Oct.

Ontario based singer-songwriter Sean Burns – who plays a combination of roots, blues and country music – is making his annual blaze across the west. Burns and his band will stop for two nights at the Rose & Crown in Banff, Tuesday and Wednesday (Oct.

The days are growing shorter and cooler and the leaves are turning yellow and orange, sure signs that the eagles are on their way.

For many artists, process is simply how they produce their artwork. But for metal artist Charles Lewton-Brain, process is as integral to his art as the final product. You could say his process is his art.

Canada Writes, the CBC’s online home for original writing and part of CBC Books, with its partners the Canada Council for the Arts, Air Canada’s enRoute magazine and The Banff Centre, announced this morning the winners of the CBC Poetry Prize.