Three-time Grammy Award beneficiary Lucinda Williams, 61, takes centre stage at the Winspear Centre’s Enmax Hall on Tuesday, July 28.
This follows the release of her newest album, Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone, a series of musings and memories of her youth in Louisiana.
Even though Williams is pushing retirement age, she refuses to rest on her laurels and pushes her creative boundaries.
The 20-track double album drinks deeply from her well of experiences – by all accounts a 40-year career – that overflows with a delta-infused country soul.
Over the course of the two-disc set, Williams is very much rooted in the here and now, and yet successfully conjures up the spirit of the ’70s.
Rolling Stone and Stereogum have heaped praise on the Nashville-based singer-songwriter calling her 11th album the best work of her career.
Tickets for the Winspear concert are $52 plus service charges. Call 780-428-1414 or visit winspearcentre.com.
The 2015 Edmonton Poetry Festival is on the move with over 36 different events and workshops over eight days.
Assorted headliners leading the pack are Governor General Award winner Sue Goyette, bilingual Inuit throat singer Taqralik Partridge, and parliamentary poet Micheal Moffett.
Additional wordsmiths include South African poet Helen Moffett, world slam champ Ikenna Onyegbula and Edmonton’s poet laureate Mary Pinkoski.
The festival program has a wealth of events from a political brouhaha, haiku in a Japanese garden and poetics of health to literary cocktails, several slams and a French twist.
Highlights include Whiskey and Words on Wednesday, April 22 with five female poets pairing poetry and whiskey at the Yellowhead Brewery.
On Friday, April 24 PoĂ©sie DĂ©oiffante is a blow-out night of bilingual poetry, throat singing, and spoken word at the Pavillon LaCerte in Edmonton’s French Quarter.
Another festival highlight is Poetry Meets Party on Saturday, April 25 at Latitude 53 where poets pair off with dancers, movers and shakers to create locomotion.
Many events are free. Some have a minimal cover charge.
The Edmonton Poetry Festival runs April 19 to 26. For information and a complete schedule of events visit edmontonpoetryfestival.com.
Every spring Kokopelli’s three youngest choirs – Kikimasu, Tamariki and Shumayela – present a special program.
This year’s concert, Echoes, brings together the three choirs with special guests The Semitones, a new youth choir from the Braille Tone Music Society.
The concert features folk music including fun numbers from Finland, Venezuela and Israel.
The concert takes place Sunday, April 19 at 3 p.m. at St. Andrew’s United Church, 9915 148 St. Tickets are $15 to $20 at tixonthesquare.ca.
