Arts & Life

Leave it to a Canadian bluegrasser to put country music back on track. Meghan Patrick rolled her first thousand miles of touring and first blistered her fingers on guitar strings in the band The Stone Sparrows.

Have a Wild time at the Cinema CNC Film Festival this weekend. Nettie Wild is the director of one of the feature films on this year's roster and she will be in person at the screening to meet with the public and answer questions about her work.

There are silver tongued devils. There are silver spoon heirs. But there are only two Silver Screen Scoundrels and they gad about together, that Brandon Isaak and Keith Picot. Alone they are acclaimed musicians, mostly of the blues persuasion.

It isn't over till the little miracle sings. The romantic comedy with an ear for opera will get a few more arias in before the play fades into golden memory. Miracle Theatre's production of The Last Romance has been held over for an additional week.

There are no small artists, only small art. The painters and sculptors who have participated in the previous editions of The Best Damn Little Art Auction will tell you it is often a large effort to make a tiny piece.

The highway of life once again has Prince George on the map. Tom Cochrane, the bard of ragged ass roads everywhere, will be live at CN Centre on Monday night.

Some real aboriginal students in Prince George are finding their own voices by analyzing the voices of fictitious aboriginal people.

As smooth as water, the voice of Danielea Castell will ripple past your ears. Her drum will tap out a heartbeat she feels from the waters of the earth. Her words will dip into the gentle currents like toes easing in from the shore.

Theatre Northwest is pouring Scotch with a twist. No, not a splash of lemon or dash of salt - that kind of twist is blasphemy to aficionados of the Scottish nectar - but the kind of twist that surprises and enthuses the mind.

If the northern region had a house band, it would likely be Folky Strum Strum. They play regular gigs, they are an attraction on the festival circuit, despite the miles between them all.