At every wedding reception I’ve ever attended, someone requests “Rasputin” and a highly-intoxicated uncle attempts a squat dance as everyone stands in a circle clapping their hands.
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With another year coming to an end, this is the last round of free Games With Gold. Here are my picks in mini-reviews for the month of December 2019.
Two Kelowna storytellers have each been given $20,000 by Telus.
A Rocky Mountain High Christmas made a successful return to its birthplace at Kelowna Community Theatre on Thursday night.
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Ah yes, a tale as old as time.
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George Thorogood and the Destroyers are coming to Prospera Place in Kelowna on Sunday, April 19 with their "Good to be Bad Tour - 45 Years of Rock."
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When one thinks of a Christmas pantomime, one wants silliness, colourful
Sista-B may suffer from a multiple-personality syndrome: she thinks she is the greatest female recording artists of the past 50 years.
“Sunshine almost always makes me smile”
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The Godfather of Canadian hiphop will perform in Vernon on Saturday, Nov. 30.
Rochelle Hoffman with Kelowna’s Blakey Okanagan School of Irish Dance was a winner at a recent Western Canadian competition in Saskatoon.
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Kelowna author, William S. Peckham, has released his second collection of family memoirs this year, “Peck’s Bad Boy of Niagara,” stories about his father.
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In January, residents of Lumby stood in line for up to three hours, waiting for television star Jonny Harris to hit the stage for episode No. 63 of his Still Standing show.
Come celebrate the best of choral music with selections bound to get you into the Christmas holiday spirit as the Spectrum Singers, under the direction of Kim Kleineberg, present Starry Night Dec. 6 and 7 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Michael’s Cathedral in Kelowna.
Lemon Bucket Orkestra is indeed like no other -- a guerrilla-punk-Balkan-folk-brass band.
Thursday
’Tis the season to be jolly as the most amazing events are happening over the next few months.
The Just for Laughs 2019 show at Kelowna Community Theatre on Wednesday was a stark reminder of how much we miss Rick Mercer.
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OSO double bass player, Mark Haney thinks of himself as a musical storyteller rather than a “conventional composer.”
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Here is my 12th annual holiday gift guide for the gamer in your life. Happy shopping.
Skiing season hasn’t yet arrived, but Big White’s already a busy place.
Opera Kelowna’s Amahl and the Night Visitors is now on stage.
The Just for Laughs 2019 show at Kelowna Community Theatre on Wednesday was a stark reminder of how much we miss Rick Mercer.
Friday
An Armstrong theatre company is betting you’ve never seen the Christmas classic, The Nutcracker, while riding a sleigh.
It's becoming a Christmas-season tradition in the Okanagan.
Thursday
As temperatures begin to fall and we wait for snow to do the same, I am preparing for the seasonal changes by battening down the hatches of all things pertaining to summer play, and smiling knowing winter is on its way.
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As temperatures begin to fall and we wait for snow to do the same, I am preparing for the seasonal changes by battening down the hatches of all things pertaining to summer play, and smiling knowing winter is on its way.
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The City and Colour concert Sunday at Prospera Place in Kelowna was a blues smorgasbord, but no one went home blue from this three-and-a-half-hour marathon.
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Some students from Rutland Secondary School in Kelowna now have CBC-TV Dragons’ Den money to take their plastics recycling enterprise up a notch.
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This month, Scottish pirate metallers Alestorm began their biggest tour of Canada. On Nov. 15, the band’s “Grand Tour of Planet Earth” brings them to the Rutland Centennial Hall.
A play about persecution of Christians and one man’s 14-year ordeal of torture, imprisonment and starvation in communist Romania will be presented Nov. 16 in Lake Country.
Saskatchewan country singer Belle Plaine will perform at Kelowna's Grateful Fed on Nov. 22.
Actor Ron Perlman is starring in a movie now being shot in the Okanagan.
Leading up to Nov. 11 when we gratefully, and with respect, honour Remembrance Day and what this day actually means, I hope you had a chance this week to visit the fields of crosses located at the east end of Veendam Walkway in City Park, near the Cenotaph where where the annual Remembrance …
Wednesday, November 6
The Unreal Season is an apt name for Ballet Kelowna's 2019-20 season.
Marking its 40th anniversary, Chamber Music Kelowna continued its season-long celebration in fine style Saturday night by hosting a return visit from a perennial audience favorite, the St. Lawrence String Quartet.
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Kelowna’s Jayson Bendera has jumped on board for the ride of his life.
A Westbank singer is up for two awards and will perform at the Native American Music Awards, Saturday in Niagara Falls, N.Y.
Rock like it's the 1970s when riff-masters Black Mastiff comes to Kelowna to play at Fernando's Pub on Nov. 15.
Everything is black and gold,
One of the features I most enjoy about the Kelowna Community Concert series is the contrast from one performance to the next.
Eight years in the making, Penticton’s Steve Jones has just released the most ambitious project of his 30-year musical career.
Mr. Downchild and his long-time musical cronies in Downchild Blues Band carried an incredible 50-year history into Kelowna Community Theatre on Thursday night.
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After 18 straight years of performing in the Okanagan, Canadian country singer Gary Fjellgaard says it’s “all about enjoying the ride.”
A familiar guitarist is coming back to Kelowna for a concert in March.
Ryan Donn had lots of surprises in store for his Tribute for Teens fundraising concert at a packed Kelowna Community Theatre last weekend.
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