Local Entertainment

Best known for the shimmering beauty with which she gracefully plucks harp strings at Edmonton Symphony Orchestra concerts, Nora Bumanis is first and foremost an ambassador for her instrument.

This coming Saturday, Arcadia Café and Bar celebrates its one-year anniversary with a festival atmosphere and 12 hours of non-stop music. Located on Perron Street, the arts café and bar is one of the few St.

There’s an S-raj Kumar in every class. You know, the class clown who won’t stop talking and drives his teachers nuts. Well, the local actor just got the last laugh.

Fans have been waiting patiently for Edmonton-raised Carl Honoré to make an appearance at the St. Albert Public Library. That time has now come.

Before now, the names Carl, Harry, Alfred and Ralph Lomen were probably mostly unknown in St. Albert.

Local dancer Paige Tirs just hit the jackpot competing in the 2013 Young & Free Dance Challenge. In the online dance competition hosted by Servus Credit Union, the St. Albert tapper took home the first-place award of $3,000.

Now in its seventh season, Mission Hill Brass Band lives by the credo that practice makes perfect and experience yields good results.

Thursday marked the grand beginning to the 13th annual Santana Dance Festival as a flurry of dancers wearing everything from dainty tutus to urban ball caps took control of the Arden Theatre.

The art-going public is probably well familiar with Frances Alty-Arscott's watercolour landscapes at Art Beat Gallery. The local painter is still enthusiastic about the diversity of scenery that Alberta has to offer but she's switched media.

There is no sound like the sweet soul of blues, jazz and rock.