Local Arts

The first time Dolores Drake performed on a Prince George stage, it was all by herself in Shirley Valentine, during the inaugural season of Theatre Northwest. That was 25 years ago.

Two of Prince George's performing arts groups have forged a partnership. The UNBC Musical Productions Club has been taken under the wing of 25-year-old professional drama company Theatre Northwest.

Sixty years ago this week, during the last week of February 1959, one of the world's biggest music acts performed in Prince George.

Folk music is safe at home in Prince George this coming week. Three shows by franco-Canadian folkie Justin Lacroix are happening in P.G., all of them held at someone's home.

The films are lined up and ready to roll. Some of Canada's best movies are shining on the silver screen of the Prince George Playhouse for the 23rd annual Cinema CNC Film Festival.

The PGSO had another big success on Saturday February 9th with their mainstage concert "German Masters" featuring guest violinist Jasper Wood.

Hootstock has come in to roost. The annual eclectic music festival near 100 Mile House is not shutting the gate, but it is getting closer to home.

The wild chemistry of music has been fused with the natural elements of backwoods farm life. The reaction is slowly boiling in the form of The Alkemist, the magical one-man-band act of Jay Myers.

The Long Island Medium, Theresa Caputo, who has a long-running TLC reality television series, said during a phone interview that it doesn't matter if she's doing a reading for one person or five thousand, the message heard will impact everyone.

Geoff & The Ninja made history when it became the first TV series to ever film all its episodes in Prince George.