Local Arts

The songs in the air are about to change their feathers. Instead of just crows and chickadees, soon there will be all the birds of spring ganging up in their ornithological orchestra.

There are rogue waves in the ocean, sudden gusts on the prairies and there's this year's Speech Arts & Drama Festival. "We had 168 registered performances last year. This year we have 314, it was getting close to double in one year.

It was a glitzy affair, as it is each April. Juno what I mean? The tallest trophy in the Canadian music land - the Juno - was handed out this past weekend in a mega-celebrity extravaganza held this year in Ottawa. There was northern B.C.

Like pages in a hurricane, brains were speedily fluttering for bookish answers at a local school on Tuesday. Each year in B.C.

The D.P. Todd band has travelled far and wide with teacher Susan Klein as the bandleader.

There was little reaction to the close of the river ferry era. It was hardly noticed by anyone at all, which caught the notice of local historian Trelle Morrow.

The 11th annual Ut'loo Noye Khnni Weaving Words Celebration is taking place at UNBC.

The big art date is coming. You can pretendium it away. Pretendium is a one-day-only special event art show.

Pharis and Jason Romero are coming back to Prince George tonight. Pharis will have a brand new old guitar in her hands, a 1939 Gibson J35 she loves, and Jason will have a brand new handmade banjo. The new instruments are for all the wrong reasons.

Audiences could never forget Reveen but try being a Reveen. Imagine yourself behind the curtains of mystery that made for one of the most popular and enduring stage shows in Canadian history.