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It’s hard to believe, but 2014 is the 60th anniversary of rock ’n’ roll. Many historians date the genre’s beginning to 1954 when the so-called “devil’s music” revolutionized tastes for decades to come.

In the last few weeks, St. Albert tapper Paige Tirs has developed a series of bruises on her feet from bamboo poles. As part of the Vinok Worldance troupe, she’s learning the Filipino dance Tinikling.

It’s tough to practice when band members live in two different provinces. However, Slowburn has no plans to call it quits. Instead, the four-piece blues band is planning a second reunion concert at LB’s Pub on Friday, Nov. 15.

A performer’s life is always filled with craziness and the unexpected. For instance, children’s entertainer Norman Foote penned a song Love My Shirt about an old top he’d found at a yard sale.

A Joyful Noise: The First Edition Choir has compiled a Remembrance Day concert that is inspired by war, yet has great hope for peace.

It’s all about a big cascade of sound that 120 voices create. Or at least that’s how the Richard Eaton Singers comes across to most music lovers.

The time to remember this weekend will come with a few visual aids and a bit of St. Albert’s history as well.

The hunt is on for wacky repairmen with a bizarre sense of home improvement. Are you an inventive handyman? Someone who comes up with weird solutions to simple home repairs? Possibly you’ve glued linoleum as a kitchen backsplash.

St. Albert jazz singer Chandelle Rimmer is the complete package – beautiful, talented and accomplished. She has a lush voice, is unafraid of taking risks and when she scats, there’s a freedom of expression that is impossible to duplicate.

Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Solomon Northup, the New York State citizen who was kidnapped and made to work on a plantation in New Orleans in the 1800s. Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sarah Paulson and Paul Giamatti co-star.