Mountain Guide

Ever since working with him nearly 20 years ago, John Gray has wanted to do a Ray Charles tribute show, to honour the musical legend.

While summer is a ways off, Banff’s fifth annual Performance in the Park is cued up and ready to take to the Cascade Gardens stage on the Parks administration grounds on June 22.

Two years ago, members of the Constantinople musical collective arrived at The Banff Centre for a residency to develop a new work. Now, that piece they created – a mix of baroque-style music and poetry called Early Dreams – is coming home.

When Sarah Slean arrives in Canmore on Wednesday (Feb. 27), she won’t be coming alone.

Though artist Richard Cole has shown his paintings many times at Canada House Gallery, this Saturday (Feb. 23) he’ll present his first book.

Next week will be like old home week when Dan from the Jam returns to the Canmore Hotel. A few years ago, Rott’n Dan as he’s known now, was a regular at the Canmore Hotel on jam nights. On Friday and Saturday (Feb.

Venerable punk rock band D.O.A. is dead on arrival, so to speak. After 35 years of touring the world and making music, the godfathers of hardcore are calling it quits. Their upcoming show at Wild Bill’s Sunday (Feb.

Justin Rutledge can’t turn down an opportunity to play Canmore’s Communitea Cafe. “It’s a lovely place,” said the folk-country singer-songwriter, in an interview with the Outlook. “They like having me back and I love coming back.

There’s a union meeting at the Drake pub this weekend. Sweatshop Union, that is. The five-piece hip hop group plays the Canmore watering hole this Sunday (Feb. 17). The Outlook spoke with band member Colin “Dusty” McCue about the show.

This is the sixth in a multi-part series of the various jam and open mic nights held at pubs and bars around the region. Monday nights, the place to play is Banff’s Pump & Tap Tavern. Located in the basement of the mall at 215 Banff Ave.