BY WENDY ELLIOTT
welliott@kentvilleadvertiser.ca
NovaNewsNow.com
Bluegrass bonanza
The ninth annual Fox Mountain Bluegrass Festival is set for four days, June 26 – 29, near Aylesford.
There is a host of talent lined up for this year’s event at the Fox Mountain Campground. Bleu Moon Rising is coming from Tennessee and Randy Waller and the Country Gentlemen from Virginia.
The local favourites are the Spinney Brothers from Wolfville. Other Nova Scotia bands include Close to Home Bluegrass Band, New Ground and Redwood Hill.
Grasskickers and Bluegrass Diamonds are representing New Brunswick. MC will be Mike O’Reilly.
Last year close to 850 people attended the festival. A four-day pass at the gate will cost $50.
www.foxmountaincampingpark.com
Drum night online
Excerpts from Ken Shorley’s very successful April 11 concert, the fifth annual World in Wolfville Drum Night, with special guests Professor Trichy Sankaran (mrdangam and kanjira) and Suba Sankaran (voice and vocal percussion), are now available online through the CBC website.
www.cbc.ca
Shorley’s world fusion band, Talambra, has several upcoming shows. They include: July 16 at the Atlantic Jazz Festival in Halifax and Aug. 7 at the Folk Harbour Festival in Lunenburg.
Talambra is also booked for the Deep Roots Festival in Wolfville in September.
Shorley is also playing with the Sanctuary Trio July 15 at the resonant All-Saints Cathedral in Halifax.
For more info, visit
www.jazzeast.com or
www.sanctuarymusic.ca
Chapter Two
CentreStage Theatre in Kentviile promises a dynamic cast of Michael L’Oiseau, Tracy Churchill, Susan Monro, and Stephen Abbass for its latest show, which was directed by George Henry and Franklin Sherrard.
In Neil Simon's Chapter Two, a widower struggling to overcome his grief meets a recent divorcee who is equally apathetic about beginning the next "chapter" in her life. George Schneider is a recently widowed novelist whose brother, Leo Schneider, keeps trying to find him some companionship. After a series of disastrous dates, Leo finally finds a winner: TV actress Jennie Malone, the friend of Leo's former lover Faye Medwick.
The show continues each Friday and Saturday night at 8 p.m. until July 5. Phone 678-8040 to make reservations.
Special event
Mark your calendars for Stan Carew and Breeze and Wilson June 28. This will be a special musical event at the Al Whittle Theatre in Wolfville.
Hear Clara
A youthful, energetic and important fundraising concert is coming up this week in Wolfville, June 20 at Denton Hall at 7 p.m.
Clara Hodder is going to play her Kabalevsky Concerto on duo grand pianos with Prof. John Hansen before heading out a week later to present it at Nationals in Quebec City.
This is a fundraiser and admission is a donation toward her trip at the door. Other community guests performing that evening will include: Emma Etienne, the Pereau Church quartet, Alan Slipp and Sara MacLeod.
Printmaker exhibition
New at Designer Café, Kentville, is an exhibition by printmaker Rachel Reeve. It will run until July 14 and focuses on nature and travel.
Reeve graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1998. While her primary focus has been printmaking, she continues to explore mixed media.
During her years in Japan and Hawaii, Reeve’s exhibitions included the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo and the Honolulu Academy of Art. Now a member of the N.S. Printmakers Association and the Alliance of Kings Artists, she also offers a variety of art workshops through Ladybird Art in Kentville.
Her work can also be seen in Halifax at the Nova Scotia Art Sales and Rental and at Maples Décor Gallery in Bedford.
On screen
Fundy Summer Films screens Michael Clayton this weekend. A legal ‘fixer’, Clayton (George Clooney) cleans up messes for a prestigious NYC law firm. When a brilliant lawyer sabotages one of the firm’s hottest cases, Clayton must ‘fix’ the situation and finds he’s facing the challenge of his career, and his life.
It screens at the Al Whittle Theatre, Wolfville, Sunday, June 22 at 8 p.m. Tickets ($8) are available 30 minutes before screening.
www.fundyfilm.ca or 542-5157.
View from here
On two Tuesday mornings, June 17 and June 24, Deborah Nicholson will instruct classes for adults that allow participants to expand their photography skills while using their own digital cameras.
She will encourage thinking outside of the box when taking photos of Irving Centre gardens and of each other. Topics covered will include: unusual angles, wide angles, narrow focal range, extreme crops, and close-ups. It will run from 8:30–10 a.m. and costs $50. Participants must supply their own digital camera.
Space is limited. Call 585-1917 or visit the K.C. Irving Centre Café to register. Payment must be made in advance.
Mini film fest
An international conference in Wolfville from June 23–25 is called “What’s Working in Community Development?” Some 300 people are expected at this interactive event with participants from nearly 30 countries around the world.
There will be a public talk on the community development value of documentary film festivals presented by Carole Roy from St. Francis Xavier University. It takes place at 3:15 p.m. at the Al Whittle Theatre. At 4 p.m., following the presentation, the first film in a mini-film festival will screen. It is entitled Black Soil. War Dance shows at 7:30 p.m. and To Play and to Fight shows at 9:30 p.m.
All films are open to the public, and everyone is welcome. Admission is a suggested $5 donation per film (or $12 for all three). Proceeds will be donated to the Fundy Film Society’s digital projector fund.
Band playing
The St. Mary’s concert series continues Saturday, June 21 at Christ Church hall in Berwick. Shoulder to Shoulder will perform, along with a musical collective from the Berwick area including Peter Bull, Andrew Johnson and others. They will open the concert.
Music gets underway at 7:30 p.m.
Coming up
June 19
Donna Morrissey reading, Wolfville Memorial Library, 7 p.m. 542-5760
Until June 22
Tony Myers’ exhibition, Ross Creek Centre for the Arts near Canning
Until June 30
Acadia Print Series’ from the permanent collection, Acadia Art Gallery, Wolfville
Send arts items to: welliott@kentvilleadvertiser.ca
