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Students offer fiddle-fused fun
A fiddle-fuelled concert will take fans on a genre-hopping trip across North America to the Ukraine, with stops in between to sample some Celt-ified, classically twisted, good ol'-time, foot stompin' music next week at Langley Community Music School.
Spinney Brothers bringing bluegrass tunes to McKee
The McKee Seniors' Recreation Centre will once again be hosting the Spinney Brothers, Canada's number one touring bluegrass band.
Bluegrass group to play at McKee this Saturday
The McKee Jammers have once again teamed up with the Pacific Bluegrass Club to present a great bluegrass concert in Ladner.
Bluegrass Festival goes silent
Fresh on the heels of its departure from the new cultural centre, the Chilliwack Community Arts Council (CCAC) has announced the end of the Chilliwack Bluegrass Festival.
Bluegrass resonates in pitt
Banjo-player jokes and world-class mandolin playing filled Pitt Meadows Heritage Hall on Saturday night.
Festival celebrates bluegrass history
Pitt Meadows has become a regular on the bluegrass circuit with a regular biweekly bluegrass circle.
Showtime
Gallery 7 Theatre will hold open auditions for an adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility Sept. 5 at 6: 30 p.m. in the MEI Theatre in Abbotsford. The production, the first in Gallery 7's "Theatre for Life!" season, features up to six men and seven women, offering talented and dedicated performers a great opportunity to stretch their acting abilities. The audition is open to all male and female performers ages 16 to 60. Rehearsals start Sept. 10 and will run Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 6 to 10 p.m. as well as two Saturday rehearsals. Show opens Nov. 2.
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Cinema Under the Stars Cinema Under the Stars is back, so gather the family together and take in a free flick on a three-storey high big screen this summer compliments of Prospera Credit Union. All of the movies start at dusk and support local charities. In Chilliwack, the film is The Lorax and will be at Watson Glen Park on Aug.
What's On
. August Lunchtime Concert Series, bring lunch for a free hour of musical entertainment by local performers in Memorial Peace Park from noon to 1 p.m. The schedule is available at downtownmapleridge.ca. The following performers are lined up: Aug. 23: Darren Exley; Aug. 28: Lydia Querengesser; Aug. 29: Land of Deborah; Aug. 30: The Green Room.
25th annual Bluegrass festival
Don't miss the 25th Annual Chilliwack Bluegrass Festival taking place at Chilliwack Heritage Park this Labour Day Weekend Aug. 31, Sept. 1 and Sept. 2.
What's on
The Main Beach Event and Fundraising Committee has organized a free music concert every Thursday from 4: 30 to 7: 30 p.m. at the Main Beach Gazebo at Cultus Lake Park. The lineup is: Aug. 9 Blackthorn, Irish folk music from Vancouver along with Irish dancing; Aug. 16 Evans Palmer, Chilliwack's Scottish ballad singer, guitarist, bagpiper; Aug. 23 Norine Braun, a Vancouver-based singer/songwriter who will preform with her trio; Aug. 30 The Carol Adams Band from North Vancouver playing from 5: 30 to 8: 30 p.m.
Washboard, fiddle, harp - to name a few
Seven-piece country-folk band The Washboard Union released their first album June 26 and have been making the festival rounds this summer to promote their new tunes.
McKee House hosting bluegrass performance
The McKee Jammers have once again teamed up with the Pacific Bluegrass Club to host another great bluegrass concert.
Late Thaw arrives at Genesis
The live@5005 concert series at Genesis Theatre continues when Vancouver bluegrass/ country band Late Thaw rolls into town next Friday.
Dawson's acoustic Black Hen night comes home to roost at Electric Owl
In a club just off Granville Street, the band is dishing out the kind of gritty, nasty, rock 'n' roll that can mortify a mother at 40 paces.
