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The affable comedian who launched a TV show about “nothing” is now off on a standup comedy tour that stops at Red Deer’s Centrium on Oct. 13.

Parks Canada’s 100th birthday will be toasted with a 100-gun salute during a special weekend event at Rocky Mountain House National Historic Site of Canada.

Their band is called Genuine Cowgirls.And considering the three moonlighting musicians from Big Valley actually have day jobs as a saddle maker, a bull breeder and a barrel racer, they aptly live up to the title.

Norwegian Laft Hus Museum will offer a display of some of the many Bunads in their collection. These regional costumes have been donated or loaned to the Museum by members of the society. The exhibit runs from Aug. 17 to Aug. 31. For more information call 403-347-2055.

The majestic sweep of hawk’s wings shadowed across snowy ground was captured by photographer Roberta Murray while she was taking pictures in her own Rocky Mountain House-area backyard.

The Capri Centre presents country music legends the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band tonight.The Hideout presents Edmonton’s Owls By Nature tonight and Brooke Wylie and her Coyotes take over the stage on Aug. 26.

The air hangs thick with marble dust at the east end of RDC, as artists from five different countries are taking part in an international sculpture symposium that requires each of them create a monumental sculpture out of three different kinds of Vietnamese marble in August. It is a free creation project with no central theme.

Opening for Gord Bamford at his town’s centennial concert is about the best birthday present Bashaw country-rock singer Ty Christian Wilson could have hoped for.

Lisa Brokop, Duane Steele and dozens of other country singers are set to wow crowds at the Ivan Daines and Friends Country Music Picknic this week.

Sydney McMurray, 10, is overshadowed physically though not musically by her trumpeting junior band colleagues Rachel Ouellette, left, and Mackenzie Demuynck, both 12, at Red Deer College on Monday.