How would you like to spend the long weekend in an idyllic outdoor setting, learning guitar from
Bill Bourne? Or singing from
Dana Wylie? Or songwriting with
Scott Cook? This week, Cook and a bunch of his very talented musical friends will kick off the first-ever
They’re going up to the country, and they’re inviting you to come on along! We’ll hear about why running a music camp on the North Country Fair land has been a longtime dream of Scott’s, and how the stars have aligned to make this the moment that his dream finally comes true.
which is due out June 4.
In press materials, the song “Break Blow Burn” is described as “an anthem to mothers and motherhood, pointing to the invisibility of the considerable load mothers and other carers carry in our world, and connecting it to our inability to see and appreciate the abundance offered to us by our Mother the Earth.”
Dana Wylie joined
Alberta Morning.
Author of the article: Fish Griwkowsky
Publishing date: Feb 19, 2021 • February 19, 2021 • 1 minute read • The Meeting bronze public art leaves Alberta Avenue Monday. Photo by supplied
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Meeting adjourned!: It’s your last chance to see a really cool public art instalation Wang Shugang’s eight crouching red figures called The Meeting. The 800 kg bronze piece originally deployed at the 2007 G-8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, has been sold and is moving to the west coast early next week. “We will miss them and wish them well in their new home,” Arts on the Ave’s executive director Christy Morin notes. “The meeting brings us into their conversation I always am left wondering what the meeting member across the street is thinking. These figures share Arts on th
Outside Music
Four out of five
A delightfully warm collection of folk songs perfect for an overcast winter day, Maria Dunn’s seventh album is outright springy at times, historically pertinent at others and calmly, sincerely emotional throughout. It releases into the world this Friday.
Besides that confident voice, what I’ve always loved about Dunn is her ability to take us to the realest, least fantastical places across time and space, and her look at humanity from both ends of mortality makes this album especially universal, despite its keen focus on a few Edmonton landmarks, both in event and on our skyline.
Author of the article: Fish Griwkowsky
Publishing date: Jan 07, 2021 • January 7, 2021 • 5 minute read • The chances of seeing this scene at Edmonton Folk Music Festival in 2021 are pretty slim. Photo by Fish Griwkowsky /Postmedia
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It’s Orthodox Christmas on Thursday sort of an extenda-play to the holiday season, where far more people than just we Slavs worldwide get a nice injection of reflection and hope in the brightening (but still pretty dark) dawn days of early January.