Giant musicals invade Edmonton – it may already be too late

Posted on January 7, 2012 By Albert Smith Culture, Front Slider, Theatre

Musical theatre is taking over the world – and something must be done or we’re all going to wind up prancing gaily down the street in our bloomers belting out Tomorrow from Annie. Even to know what that is without looking it up is bad enough! Edmonton is well on the way to being overcome […]

Wild West Saloon is history – and so is Edmonton country bar band scene

Posted on January 6, 2012 By Mike Ross Culture, Music, The Latest

The closing of the Wild West Saloon is one of the last nails in the coffin of Edmonton’s once thriving country bar band scene. After 30 years of live music, the North Side bar shut down two days before Christmas, according to entertainment booker Ray Woodward, who hired bands in the room for the last […]

Van Halen coming to Edmonton May 11

Posted on January 6, 2012 By Albert Smith Front Slider, Music

Van Halen is coming to Edmonton this spring, as predicted. The reunited band announced dates on its official website on Thursday for its 2012 tour, which includes Rexall Place on Friday, May 11 with opening act Kool and the Gang. The announcement was made on the heels of an intimate and interactive gig in New […]

GIGGLE CITY: Julian Faid, Player of the Month, makes it all up as he goes along

Posted on January 5, 2012 By Mike Ross Comedy

There are a lot of ways to skin a cat for a laugh when it comes to live comedy – cat lovers, please hold your tongues – but both improv performers and stand-up comics have the same goal: To make drunk people laugh. Improv comedy has been a proven alternative to straight stand-up shows since […]

From Nashville to Edmonton, The Frolics are Ripe for success

Posted on January 4, 2012 By Kevin Maimann Front Slider, Music

Edmonton music fans have heard the sad story too many times: a hard-working local band builds a strong buzz, wins our hearts, garners national acclaim … and then skips town. Rapper and ex-poet laureate Cadence Weapon left for fresh waters in Montreal, Christian Hansen and the Autistics took off to Toronto, songstress Wendy McNeill is […]

Surf rocking Tsunami Brothers latest project for eclectic musician Bill Damur

Posted on January 4, 2012 By Mike Ross Music

As likely to turn up with a lute in a medieval minstrel troupe as a thrash guitarist in some rock band, Edmonton musician Bill Damur has learned to be versatile. What was true in music school – “You’re there to suck in every piece of information and every experience you can” – is true in […]

New Trevor Anderson film The Man That Got Away to premiere this fall

Posted on January 3, 2012 By Mike Ross Culture, Film, The Latest

With the release of the trailer for Trevor Anderson’s new film, The Man That Got Away, we can at last get a peek into the life of his mysterious Great Uncle Jimmy – an Alberta farm boy turned Broadway dancer who became friends with Judy Garland while the two were in rehab together. The Man […]

Winter festival season heats up with Deep Freeze

Posted on January 2, 2012 By Mike Ross Family, Front Slider, Music, Theatre

OK, now we have too many winter festivals. Between Metropolis, Winter Light, Silver Skate, Ice on Whyte and other assorted subzero carnivals stretching over the desolate months with nothing much else going on in the most Northern metropolis in the world with the highest murder rate in Canada … scratch that lead. Edmonton doesn’t have […]

CONCERT PREDICTIONS: Black Sabbath, Van Halen, Red Hot Chili Peppers – no Beach Boys

Posted on January 1, 2012 By Albert Smith Culture, Music, The Latest

Who needs Kreskin? You can predict the future simply by studying the events of the past. For example: Beyonce won’t be coming back to Edmonton because promoters lost their shirts the last time she was here. Simple economics. Ozzy Osbourne and Van Halen, on the other hand, did great business in this town. So it […]

GIGGLE CITY: Hometown boy Toby Hargrave builds a ‘nice’ reputation

Posted on December 30, 2011 By Mike Ross Comedy, Front Slider

You have to wonder how stand-up comics feel about working a crowd on New Year’s Eve – getting more hammered than usual, going crazy at midnight, kissing complete strangers on the lips and ending the night by weeping and vomiting on the bathroom floor. The audience members are even worse. Seriously, don’t worry how Toby […]

TRUE TALES OF THE ROAD: Hugh Dillon and the Headstones return from the brink

Posted on December 29, 2011 By Mike Ross Music, The Latest

Hugh Dillon figures the lowest point in his life occurred in Edmonton – no fault of Edmonton. Hugh loves Edmonton. The Headstones wouldn’t be back to play the Shaw Conference Centre on New Year’s Eve if he didn’t. We just happened to be the town where the singer took a flying leap off the wagon […]

METAL: Striker at the gates of gone

Posted on December 28, 2011 By Kevin Maimann Front Slider, Music

When faced with going big or going home, Striker will always choose the former. The Edmonton metal band has earned most of its success thousands of miles away. The group just returned from Nashville where it recorded its second album with renowned metal producer Michael Wagener, who was at the helm for such classic albums […]

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