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Dr. Angela Schroeder is understandably a tad nervous. An assistant professor in the music department at the University of Alberta, she is the director of bands and conducts the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and the University Concert Band.

Ali (Christina Aguilera) is a small-town girl with a big voice who escapes hardship and an uncertain future to follow her dreams to L.A.

When it comes to The Polar Express, the young singers at St. Albert Youth Musical Association (SAYMA) are prepared to duke it out with movie critics any day.

Mambos and Mocktails has always been about shakin’ your bootie on the dance floor and listening to some sizzling hot jazz. This year Bellerose Composite High School’s premiere fundraiser on Friday, Dec. 10 has a new dimension.

For Maralyn Ryan there are a lot of big changes at this year’s Citadel Theatre production of A Christmas Carol, now running until Thursday, Dec. 23.

Plato once wrote that empty vessels make the loudest sound, and that’s what six artists and the curator at Profiles Art Gallery hope is true.

Willy Wonka. Sound of Music. Jesus Christ Superstar. The King and I. Oliver and Grease.

Romping music and madcap movies are the big feature at this year’s Sturgeon Composite High School Winter Concert at the Arden Theatre on Tuesday, Dec. 7. Taking an innovative turn, director Darwin Krips decided to screen the 1922 film Cops.

There’s something almost heroic about St. Albert Theatre Arts Guild of Entertainers (STAGE) kicking off their first full-length production with Alan Ayckbourn’s Season’s Greetings playing at St. Albert Catholic high from Dec.

Festival of Trees twinkles Once again the Shaw Conference Centre lights up with a magical wonderland known as the 2010 Festival of Trees from Dec. 2 to 5. This year's theme is appropriately called Sparkle.