Local Arts

The city is feeling extra vigour this weekend. A youth movement has set in. A burst of young energy is hitting the arts scene like a guzzle of Red Bull - for the ear. The first ever Prince George Young Canadian Music Festival is underway.

Foreigner is no stranger to modern audiences even though they crossed their first rock 'n' roll borders four decades ago.

Prince George has everything it needs, almost, almost. What it doesn't have is the Downchild Blues Band, but fear not, this legendary group will flip, flop and fly into Vanier Hall on Saturday night.

Poems will spread across the floor tonight at the Omineca Arts Centre.

First Ani Kyd is going to do it, then Ani Kyd is going to teach you how to do it. The northern B.C. performance artist is a music maker and a filmmaker.

Girls with the gift of gab. Female funny fluctuations of flippancy. Women whacking wits with exuberance. That last word was not alliteration. Just keeping you in your toes. Off balance. Improvising.

Classic rock has an audience. An entire generation well remembers the pounding drums and grinding guitars of the power-rock era.

A band as strong as a jungle primate wants to wrap its world-beat arms around the Prince George audience tonight.

Tonight, the sounds of New York, the blazing history of the great Big Apple theatre district, will be rolling off the tongues of some of this city's best choral singers.

Aaron Williams was a smokin' good firefighter in Canada's forests. He was a provincial firefighter on B.C.