Local Entertainment

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.

A Latino festival of entertainment, food and culture will cha-cha its way on a downtown street for the second year in a row.

The sights and the sounds of fifth annual Central Music Festival drew hundreds to the outdoor site on the old C & E trail in Red Deer County throughout the weekend.

It’s no accident that Michael Kaeshammer’s boogie-woogie piano music has upbeat, life-affirming vibe.

Tommy Banks might well be “The Honourable,” but don’t call him senator — at least not in connection to his music.

Soul Sisters: A Journey to the Hearth is a joint installation by Grande Prairies artist Sabine Schneider and Red Deer’s Glynis Wilson Boultbee and documents their friendship. This exhibit runs at the Harris-Warke Gallery until Sept. 10.

Palisade Ballroom, beneath O’Malley’s Pub in the Cornation Inn on Ross Street, presents the St. Alberta metalcore band All Else Fails on Aug. 27. Doors at 8 p.m. show at 9. Cover charge is $8 at the door.

Considering Sonny and Cher and Captain and Tennille, does the world need any more husband-and-wife acts, questioned Paul Jefferson at the prospect of becoming a singing duo with his wife Lisa Brokop.