Arts & Life

A local high school student was put in the national arts spotlight this past week by the prestigious Historica Canada organization, a federal charitable agency that promotes Canadian culture, arts and national identity.

Few people are allowed into the lab when scientists do experiments, but experimental music is audience friendly. Jeremy Stewart loves to mix and emulsify musical notes, playing styles and all the words that go with it.

Maureen Washington had to blink, had to double and triple check, had to cross-reference sources and hear it from the organizers.

Ronnie McDowell was the leading voice of musical sorrow when Elvis Presley died in 1977. He has been watching girls go by, praising older women, and having his bad reputation ruined ever since.

The Orchestra North summer learning programs might be based in Smithers but Prince George is tattooed all over its music development sessions.

The 2015 Canada Winter Games got a substantial provincial government investment this week, yet none of those dollars were earmarked for sports.

They was fab, and 50 years later they still are. The Beatles' music still lights up an audience even though they are long since disbanded and only two members survive.

The keys to the art house were handed over this week. For the past year, the Community Arts Council's (CAC) first Artist In Residence has been oil painter Corey Hardeman.

Nancy O's hosting northern talent A northern music double-bill comes to the Nancy O's stage Saturday night.

Scott Woods and his travelling roadshow stop in various cities and towns for about 150 performances a year. Yet the fiddler extraordinaire has never taken the stage in Prince George.