If you’ve clicked onto country artist Dallas Smith’s website recently, you’ll see he is booked to perform at St. Albert’s Servus Credit Union Place on Feb. 7, 2015.
What isn’t available on Smith’s website is that close to 80 per cent of tickets are sold.
“It’s gonna be a great show. I’ve heard nothing but good things about him,” says Shawn Huculak, committee chair for Kinsmen Club of Edmonton.
Originally the Edmonton Kinsmen had planned to host the concert at the Kinsmen Sports Centre. However, the dates didn’t work and Servus came to the rescue.
“We hadn’t put on a concert in years so we put together a committee and contacted Mike Anderson at Trixstar and he recommended Dallas Smith.”
Monies generated from this concert will go towards general revenues to support cystic fibrosis, the University Hospital Foundation and Winifred Stewart School.
Smith has enjoyed an incredible ride in Canada’s music industry. After spending 10 years fronting multi-platinum rock band Default, Smith stepped into country.
His first album Jumped Right In netted five 2013 Canadian Country Music Association nominations. In October 2013, Smith released an extended play Tippin’ Point.
Just this year, he travelled to Nashville and recorded his second full-length studio album. The first single release off this new album, Wastin’ Gas, is on Tuesday, Oct. 28.
Concert tickets range from $45 to $60. Visit ticketmaster.ca.
The Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts pairs with artists from Teatro La Quindicina for Here’s Nina, a night of song, dance, music, readings and playlets.
Modelled after Varscona Theatre’s That’s Terrific, the art centre’s long-time host Sheri Sommerville joins with the creative forces of playwright-director Stewart Lemoine.
With a spritely cast that includes St. Albert Children’s Theatre musical director Rachel Bowron, the artists have created a mad-cap-musical-variety-style extravaganza presented at the newly renovated Chateau Lacombe ballroom on Tuesday, Nov. 4.
The Nina Haggerty Centre supports people with developmental disabilities to become artists and experience the joy of discovery.
Rona Fraser, Nina’s director of development, stated that proceeds would support the centre’s clay, painting and glass-making studios as well as the computer animation, textile and dance studios.
“There are over 170 members both male and female. If we didn’t have the centre, they would be minus a way to express themselves. Some can’t speak. If they didn’t have a facility like this, it would be devastating for them.”
Tickets for the theatre show are $100 per ticket or $850 for a table of 10. Reception starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are available at 780-420-1757 or online at tixonthesquare.ca.
