Local Entertainment

One-day art instruction sessions on developing techniques with pen and ink, watercolour and pastel are being offered through The Gallery on Main in Lacombe this fall.

Transplanted roots music duo Jesse Dee and Jacquie B are briefly pulling off Hwy 2 to harmonize together on Friday night at The Hideout, south of Red Deer.

Nancy Gibson has the distinction of once being grounded by a volcano. Barring any other natural disasters, the internationally-known soprano will perform Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss on Saturday, Sept. 24, with the RDSO.

Victory on the Field, a new exhibit, at the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame Museum, explores the effects of the First and Second World Wars in Alberta and how war influenced so many Albertans when sport and war collided.

Velvet Olive welcomes Aaron Spohr on Sept. 22 at 8:30 p.m.The Hideout presents the F-Holes bring their roots music on tonight, followed by Jesse Dee and Jacquie B., with 100 Mile House on Sept. 23.

The Backyardigans are coming to Red Deer on Saturday to perform an out-of-this-world live stage show for pre-schoolers at the Memorial Centre.

Arthur Samuel Barker has spun a lifetime of stories into his debut CD, Somewhere Under the Radar.While the 60-year-old Red Deer resident has been making music off and on, between working on British oil rigs and in the trucking industry, he only lately got around to making a full-length album.

The man who sparked a popular TV series about nothing is part of this fall’s eclectic entertainment lineup in Red Deer — as is the straight-talking, duct-tape-wielding, squire of Possum Lodge.

Canada’s legendary anarchist band D.O.A. intends to unleash a musical “Blitzkrieg” on Saturday at Murph’s Pub and Grill in Red Deer.

The curtain rose on a dynamic, new live theatre space in downtown Red Deer, Wednesday, with the official opening of City Centre Stage.