Mountain Guide

The Canmore Folk Music Festival begins Friday (Aug. 3) and, according to Environment Canada, the weekend is supposed to be clear and sunny with highs of 27 C – at least as of Tuesday (July 31).

Twelve-time Grammy Award winner Emmylou Harris is one of the most celebrated and accomplished artists of our time – and she plays The Banff Centre’s Shaw Amphitheatre,Thursday (Aug. 9).

If, during this summer (we’ll call it that) of weather that alternates between warm and waterlogged you can’t seem to get into a groove, you’re in luck – Jackie Treehorn will soon be here to help.

It’s going to be like old home week when Shirley Jackson and her Good Rockin’ Daddys roll into Alberta. Jackson, who grew up in Sundre and started on her music career in the central Alberta region, plays Wild Bill’s, Sunday (July 29).

Chris Guillebeau wants to help people achieve their dreams, quickly and simply, without having to get a loan from the bank, write a massive business plan or take on a pile of risk.

When she first began working on the National Film Board interactive film project Bear 71, Canmore filmmaker Leanne Allison wondered how high-tech webcams and modern surveillance technology could help tell the story of a grizzly bear making her living

To say Current Swell has been riding the crest of a decent wave lately would be to indulge in musical understatement.

South African music legend Johnny Clegg is back in North America – and back at The Banff Centre this weekend. Clegg plays the Shaw Amphitheatre, Sunday (July 29) at 7 p.m.

Perched in the Rocky Mountains in Kananaskis Country, Mount Engadine Lodge has long been known as a location blessed with majestic views, sightings of wildlife, hiking and skiing, comfortable wilderness lodging and hearty gourmet dinners.

The B.C. author of Raising Kain: The adventuresome life of Conrad Kain, Canada’s greatest mountaineer is bringing Kain back to Banff, at least for one night.