It’s time to jump on board a live musical theatre performance about life, love and luggage on Nov. 18 and 19 at Fort Edmonton Park’s Capitol Theatre.
The vintage show features former St. Albert resident Beth Portman and her “Good Find” of musicians. Together, they will sing Portman’s original songs and classics from the ’20s through to the ’40s.
“As an artist I always love working with a theme and to imagine the Capitol Theatre as a train station, and the theatre itself as a passenger car gets me creatively excited,” said Portman.
To get in the spirit of things, expect to be seated by ushers wearing conductor hats, hear ambient train sounds and great music filled with the rhythmic pulses of the railway and Alberta’s prairie spirit.
Accompanying Portman is Good Find, an ensemble of musicians ranging from ukulele, acoustic bass, guitar or beating a rhythm with a shoe striking a suitcase.
Portman has performed at the Edmonton Fringe Festival, the Edmonton Streetcar Concert Series, Horizon Stage and numerous folk clubs, cafes and cabarets.
Tickets are $24 advance and $28 at door. Visit fortedmontonpark.ca for additional information or call 780-496-7381.
Rob Curtis conducts i Coristi Chamber Choir this coming Saturday with a special seasonal concert titled Landscapes.
Curtis has fashioned a repertoire of aural and visual music spanning St. Mark’s in Venice to the countryside of Estonia and to our own back yard.
The special guest of honour is New Zealand composer Christopher Marshall who will attend for the world premiere of his composition To the Horizon: Images of New Zealand.
The choir also performs John Weinzweig’s Hockey Night in Canada, Veljo Tormis’ Autumn Landscapes and Anton Bruckner’s Locus iste.
The concert takes place at Holy Trinity Anglican Church. Advance tickets through tixonthesquare.ca. Food bank donations are accepted.
