Mountain Guide

Hot on the heels of a new release, Fred Eaglesmith is heading for Canmore.

Red Molly, a New York-based trio, is excited to play the Canmore Folk Music Festival.

Coming from the left, Australian folk band the Rosie Burgess Trio will play this year’s Canmore Folk Music Festival at Centennial Park (Aug. 4-6). “I haven’t been that far over to the right,” said Burgess, speaking from Melbourne.

Thirty-three years ago, on July 13, 1979, after nearly a century of operation, the Canmore coalmines closed.

Banff’s master of the slopes has been called upon to master the house of rock. World Cup downhill skier Jan Hudec will play six gigs at Canadian Olympic Park as part of Stampede festivities.

What could possibly say Canada Day better than stubby beer bottles, the lowly beaver, the Pop Shoppe, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Stompin’ Tom Connors, Wayne Gretzky and Mr.

Carrie Elkin has had many career choices – acrobat, circus performer, biochemist – but has settled on being a musician. It’s a good thing she did, or else she would never have been invited to play the Canmore Folk Music Festival, Aug. 4-6.

Even though Vietnam is a long way from the door step of Toronto author Vincent Lam, winner of the 2006 Scotia Bank Giller Prize, that didn’t stop him from ably capturing an especially troubled period in Vietnam’s history in his latest novel, The Head

Even though summer has yet to heat up the valley, things at The Club are once again coming to a boil. Having kicked off last fall, The Club Series will wrap up this summer with a final four evenings of entertainment at The Banff Centre.

The Canmore Folk Music Festival is still over a month away, but with two Canadian folk icons headlining the 35th anniversary of the festival, excitement is already growing.