Enjoy a crash ride in music as The Contemporary Combos from MacEwan University Faculty of Arts and Communication mount one of their last concerts of the season.
Led by Sandro Dominelli of St. Albert’s Dominelli School of Music, the combos of polished musicians are third and fourth year students.
These energetic and creative musicians will adapt their talent and skill to a wide range of popular and jazz music, from alternative rock, funk and pop to more experimental music influenced by jazz, jam bands and electronica.
In this eclectic night of music, students will add extra flair with their own version of classic charts by a diversity of artists from Björk to Led Zeppelin.
The concert is tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the John L. Haar Theatre, 10045 – 156 St. Tickets are $11.75 for adults, $9 students/seniors. Call 780-420-1757 or at tixonthesquare.ca
Last season Cantilon Choirs initiated its first musical theatre production with the blockbuster Mary Poppins. In a follow-up to last season’s highly talked about success, Cantilon once more tackles the musical theatre arena with Anne of Green Gables: The Musical in Concert.
Artistic director Heather Johnson has selected one of Canada’s quintessential stories that is a rite of passage for many.
Lucy Maud Montgomery’s 1908 novel, Anne of Green Gables, tells the story of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old girl orphan girl sent to live with Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle aged brother and sister in one of Prince Edward Island’s farming communities.
Don Harron wrote the lyrics while Norman Campbell composed the music. Soaring and dreamy, the music instantly brings to mind the island’s quaint landscape that frames the province’s rich heritage.
There are two concerts showing Saturday, March 5 at the Arden Theatre at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tickets are $20 to $25 and can be purchased online at cantilonchoirs.ca.
Rogers’ Hometown Hockey Tour, Canada’s ultimate hockey festival, drops by St. Albert today and tomorrow. Even as fans get to brush elbows with NHL alumni and hometown heroes, local entertainers will help to kick off the festivities in grand style.
Party Panther, one of the hardest working bands around, launches the festivities on Saturday at noon and then again for a half-hour set at 2:15 p.m.
Rend described as the new band that will revitalize Canadian rock picks up the beat at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m.
The Spencer Vaughn Band rips it up on Sunday at 11 a.m. as the day’s opener. Vaughn is an independent singer-songwriter and the band was showcased for the first time in Toronto at the Underground Garage to a full house where they were called back for two encores.
And at 2 p.m. while Mark Messier is signing autographs in Rogers’ Tent, Scenic Route to Alaska shakes it up on the main stage. This is the band’s second big appearance in St. Albert. They were first featured at the inaugural Seven Music Fest in July 2015.
All bands will appear on the main stage located on St. Anne Street in front of St. Albert Place.
Clare Bedford is bound for home. Now residing in Toronto, the former St. Albert comedienne is returning to celebrate the Empress Comedy Night Show, a project she started two years ago.
“It’s going to be bananas,” Bedford wrote on her Facebook page. “ECN’s new daddies, Simon Glassman and Carina Lauren Morton, have curated the best night of comedy possible for this party with Canadian comedy darling Pat Thornton flying in to close the show.”
The Ontario based funnyman is a founding member of sketch comedy troupe The Sketchersons and has appeared in the comedy series Hotbox and Sunnyside.
He has received two Canadian Screen Award nominations as supporting actor for Satisfaction and his performance in the web series Everybody’s Famous.
The comedy night is Sunday, March 6 at the Empress Ale House at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 and are available at the door.
SAIF benefit concert a success
Concert promoter Robert McClure organized a benefit concert for Stop Abuse in Families (SAIF) on Friday, Feb. 19 at the St. Albert Botanic Park.
The featured performers were three duos, Madeline and Montague Killoh, Ella Coyes and Jasper Smith and Stef Parth with Jack Hansen.
McClure was hoping to raise a couple of hundred dollars. Instead the generosity of attendees more than doubled his initial target.
“SAIF was reported to have raised $450 and let me know that the money raised will be going towards youth counselling services,” wrote McClure in an email to the Gazette.
He passes on his gratitude to all the generous supporters.
