Mountain Guide

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.

Ancient Greek drama joins with 21st Century technology at the Eric Harvie Theatre this weekend as a means to explore the role of war, the connection between artists and soldiers, while turning the notion of traditional theatre on its head.

The Canmore Artists and Artisans Guild (CAAG) is currently hosting a fundraiser that is also proving to be one of the best shows the arts group has hosted in its 32-year-history.

It’s a good thing Jane Bunnett and Hilario Duran don’t need to haul around awards hardware to prove they belong on any given stage they grace.

One paints landscape, the other wildlife, but their shared passion for both oil painting and wild spaces and its inhabitants is proving to be a perfect combination for a shared show.

Trios, quartets and five-piece bands are fairly standard among those that tour through the Bow Valley. One-man bands, though, are much thinner on the ground – and that’s where Windborn comes in.

When it comes to conservation and environmentalism, the modern world tends to harbour three conceits or falsehoods: one, society didn’t become concerned about the environment and wildlife until the 1970s; two, already established national parks in Ca