Local Arts

What: Brackendale Bluegrass Festival Where: Brackendale Art Gallery When: Saturday and Sunday, May 3-4 Hot dang, there’s a bumper bluegrass weekend coming up in Brackendale. Yee-har, let’s load up the wagon.

The Seventh Annual Visual Arts Development Award is now underway, giving a great big boost to B.C.’s emerging or mid-career visual artists and artisans.

Bye Bye Birdie about to land Who: Whistler High School's Drama Club What: Bye Bye Birdie (the musical) Where: Millennium Place Dates: May 8 & 10 Rehearsals are well under way for 35 Whistler Secondary School students, feverishly dancing and singi

Who: The Sadies Where: Garibaldi Lift Co. When: Wednesday, April 30 It’s not often we get phone calls from people asking us to interview a band but this week we’ve had several such requests.

What: CD Release Party Who: The Whistler Singers Where: MY Place When: Wednesday, April 30 The Whistler Singers musical director, Glen Irvine, loves the word "amateur" and he uses it openly when talking about his exceptional choir.

The final collaboration between Rodgers & Hammerstein, The Sound of Music, remains the most popular movie musical of all time and the Royal City Musical Theatre Company’s production of the musical is set to do the same on a local level.

Friday, April 25 LIVE MUSIC AND EVENTS What: Tuned Women Where: MY Place Celebrate a sisterhood of musical styles with this showcase of fresh female talent in the Sea-to-Sky corridor.

Who: DJ Science Where: WSSF main stage and Savage Beagle When: Sunday, April 20 I got hooked on DJing when… I would listen to mix tapes my older cousin passed down to me from the local club DJs.

Three DJs flipping discs, ninja style What: Ninja Tune label showcase Who: Kid Koala, Amon Tobin and Bonobo Where: DKNY Jeans Free Outdoor Concert Series When: Saturday, April 19, 7 p.m.

What: Lifesongs Where: MY Place When: Saturday, April 26 If the news is all a bit depressing of late, one way to cheer up a bit is with some soaring soprano soothers.