Arts & Life

Kat Valcourt's art has never been at such heights. Her reputation has been climbing through Prince George's painting community for several years and now she is at the top of city hall.

The Prince George and District Music Festival finished its 67th annual competition, early this week. The Citizen is providing the results as they are made available.

A band named Hearing Trees doesn't just pencil in Prince George for a concert, it is practically compelled by the power of the forest.

Peter Maides doesn't get stumped very often in any game of Canadian film trivia, but he lost one volley this week. He was thrilled.

The 67th annual Prince George music festival, piano division, came to a crescendo Saturday morning. There were 18 duets, duos and even a trio that performed in front of Vancouver adjudicator Murray Nicol at the Free Evangelical Church on Fifth Ave.

She's coming back to visit her fiddle family when she returns to Prince George Thursday. Kelli Trottier, who grew up in Ontario, is a fiddler, singer and step dancer, offering a variety show at the Elder Citizen Recreation Centre, 1692 Tenth Ave.

You can't bring the whole fam damily but you can still enjoy the Fluster Cluck. No chickens will be harmed in the making of this comedy show, but some side splitting may occur and there's no promises on the condition of your funny-bone.

One of Canada's leading wildlife photographers will be in Prince George for public engagements tonight and Thursday. John Marriott is a columnist for Outdoor Photography Canada Magazine and his latest book is Tall Tales, Long Lenses.

Jesse Roper is one of the blues-folk guitar soldiers of B.C., a young veteran of the provincial scene, but he has rarely been to Prince George. Even when he has been here to play, his performance was quite underground.

Middle-America isn't a place, it's a lifestyle. It's a way of being. It's apple pie. It's corn on the cob. It's church picnics. It's barbershop quartets. It's immigrants in turbans. Wait...what? That last part, there, that doesn't sound quite right.