Entertainment

It’s not uncommon for kids to ask their parents to play the piano or the guitar, but eight-year-old Lucas Alexander had no interest in these common instruments.

Representatives of the Nelson and District Credit Union, seen here with the cast of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, continue their support of the Capitol Theatre Summer Youth Program.

Art enthusiasts are invited to hit the streets on Friday as the Nelson and District Arts Council launches it’s 23rd ArtWalk.

Beautiful weather and fantastic music filled the air over the weekend at Crawford Bay's annual Starbelly Jam music festival.

Members of the Nelson Rotary Club enjoyed some live entertainment with their lunch at their Friday lunch at the Hume Hotel.

Hidden away in the Little Slocan Valley is a music festival that is doing something a little bit different.

From hip hop to gypsy jazz to progressive, there is one music festival in the Kootenay aiming to offer something to satisfy everyone’s musical tastes.

In less than a year the Creston’s Best Singer contest has become one of the town’s hottest arts events. Now organizer Vern Gorham is bringing the concept over the Kootenay Pass and hoping to take the rest of the region by storm — starting here.

Digable Planets epitomized the laid-back charm of jazz hipsters better than any group before or since. The trio’s 1993 debut album, Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space), was a mellow ride packed with samples from Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins, and Curtis Mayfield, and the single “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)” became a Top 20 pop hit.

It started with a desire to put an exclamation mark on Canada Day in Kaslo, but it’s become much more.