Local Entertainment

The Morinville Community Cultural Centre has added pub nights to its eclectic roster of entertainment. The next Silver Shoes Pub Night on Thursday features St. Albert performers Peter and Mary with their singular brand of comedy and peppy music. “To break things up we'll have some magic and Mary's ventriloquism,” says Peter Jensen.

What's in a name? Well, in the case of one upcoming non-fiction title, it could be everything that has happened in St. Albert over the last 30 years.

Hear that? That’s the sound of the Red River Jig, and it’s bringing hundreds of Métis dancers and fiddlers with it this week to St. Albert. The Métis Spring Festival returns to Servus Credit Union Place this weekend.

The International Children's Festival is set to unfold in all its colour and pageantry during the last week of May. Making its debut in St. Albert is L'Illusion Théâtre de Marionette, Montreal's leading theatrical troupe specializing in puppetry.

It took longer than anticipated – a lot longer – but they finally did it. The MusĂ©e HĂ©ritage Museum recently completed its St. Albert Oral Histories Project that has been on the to-do list for almost 40 years.

It must be a daunting task for a fully hearing playwright to jot down a play true to the problems of a deaf protagonist in a noise-filled world.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho was the mother of all horror movies, the quintessential template for an inexhaustible chain of later horror films.

Since Chill Factor regrouped in 2008, every year it gets a little mightier. These aren’t exactly the words founder Lori Woodhouse would use. She’s too humble for that.

The St. Albert Singers Guild has travelled all around the world. But in its final concert of the season, music director Criselda Mierau has borrowed inspiration from one of the most precious resources on planet Earth – water.

A fire god, opium dreams, crashing temples and live snakes are part of Houston Ballet’s La BayadÄŤre coming to the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium courtesy of Alberta Ballet on May 8 and 9.