Wendell Ferguson may be living in Toronto, but his heart is still in Alberta. He fell in love with the province when he lived here for two summers working with Duane Steele and George Fox.
The Juno-nominated country picker and humourist is doing a provincial tour and he’s squeezed in a date at LB’s Pub on Tuesday, Feb. 14.
He’s released five of his own albums and performed as a sideman on countless CDs for artists including Gil Grand, Jane Siberry, Gordon Lightfoot, James Keelaghan and Crystal Gage.
“I’m all over the map now,” says Ferguson. “I’m a two-trick pony and I’ll play both tricks. I have a finger-style guitar pickin’ a la Chet Atkins and you’ll hear some of my humour songs.”
Let’s see. There’s Great Big Johnson, Rocks and Trees, a Beatle medley and Throw Another Fiddle in the Fire.
“It’s a fun song. Fiddlers like it because they get the in-jokes.”
Entertainment starts at 9 p.m. No cover.
Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along is a musical with a lot to say about the dangers of fame, selling out, sacrificing personal integrity and keeping your dreams alive through adversity.
Once a trio of dreamers, Frank, Mary and Charlie had great hopes for the future. But the hard knocks of life pull them apart. Jaded by their own choices, the trio starts the play in their forties and roll back time to their twenties.
St. Albert’s Steven Angove and Robyn Kumish both star in this production that opened yesterday at the John. L. Haar Theatre at MacEwan’s Centre for Arts and Communication. It runs until Feb. 18.
Tickets are available at 780-420-1757 or online at www.tixonthesquare.ca.
St. Albert Theatre Troupe is hosting auditions for its next production, a Norm Foster comedy titled Bedtime Stories.
Auditions will be held Monday, Feb. 13 and Wednesday, Feb. 15. For location and time call 780-668-9522.
Bedtime Stories is slated to run April 26 to 28, May 3 to 5 and May 10 to 13 at the Kinsmen Korral.
