Mountain Guide

Sean Burns’ latest western tour has already had two casualties. On Friday (Aug. 19), the Ontario-based singer-songwriter’s car window was smashed and his guitar taken. It happened in Edmonton, the day after playing there.

Opera fans will have twice the excitement to rave about this weekend. In addition to the new production of Lillan Alling, The Banff Centre will present the classic opera Cosi Fan Tutte, Friday and Sunday (Aug. 19 and 21).

Rocky Mountain Rebel Music has returned to Banff, hellbent on playing the region’s ‘wildest’ venue. The eight-member reggae-ska-funk extravaganza will take to the stage at Wild Bill’s, Sunday (Aug. 21).

My favourite fly fishing author has always been John Gierach.

Homesick and penniless in New York City in 1927, a young Russian immigrant decides to walk home by heading west. Her journey takes her across the United States, up through Canada and into Alaska.

Bri-anne Swan takes any chance she can get to play in Canmore. “I like the community, there’s a really vibrant arts community in Canmore,” she said in an interview last week.

Your friends from the city are in town and are sick of that damn Grassi Lakes Trail.

This year’s Canmore Folk Music Festival was a big hit – with the performers. Jason Wilson, who played Sunday (July 31) evening with Dick Gaughan, said it was his first time at the festival and he loved every moment of it.

The Rainbow Mountains comprise a small range on the Alberta/B.C. border which include Mount Robson, as well as the mountains surrounding the Canadian Rockies’ highest peak.

Ontario artist Mitchell Fenton paints with his feet. While he isn’t physically putting a brush between his toes, Fenton relies on the ‘getting there’, preferably by foot – especially in the Rocky Mountains – to prime his artistic pump.