The Arts Station

Canada Premier Coal Miners Choir

Friday, August 8 at 7pm

An Arts Station & Historical Society program

Coming to Fernie – one performance only - at the Fernie Centennial Community Centre

The Men of the Deeps is a renowned choir of working and retired coal miners from the island of Cape Breton in Nova Scotia, Canada. Organized in 1966 as part of Cape Breton’s contribution to Canada’s Centennial Year (1967), the group’s inception was an effort by the people of Cape Breton to preserve in song some of the rich folklore of that island’s coal mining communities.

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Tickets are $20/adult; $15/youth

A Classical Concert of Slavic Music

Saturday, July 19 at 8pm

Enjoy a special evening of music performed with passion by the Vera Chamber Music Ensemble with violin, cello, flute, guitar, piano and vocal arrangements.

In a remarkable opportunity of talent, outstanding musicians and singers from Canada and France have coalesced for a very special performance of music heralding from Slavic traditions.

Enjoy a ‘summer’s evening’ concert where you can catch the ‘essence’ of the east with informative introductions to the music. Blending strings, flute and piano, together with two sopranos, this ensemble brings forward the ‘soul’ of the music in true Eastern traditions.

The program includes such greats as Dvorák, Tchaikovsky, Deunov, Alabieff and others. Performed by the stellar talents of French Phillipe Lucotte and Nadia Navarro at the violin, Alain Courmont on the Cello, Yolaine Hames on the flute and Gilles Hainault at the piano. In addition, singing beautifully, Sophie Gamache and Lubka Amigues, are two wonderful sopranos that add to this rich evening.

With over 15 years of shepherding talent, for concerts at the UN and across the US and Europe, Hainault brings together expertise for this event from France and Canada. These musicians and singers will bring a wealth of talent to the Arts Station stage. Fernie and area audiences may remember the outstanding concerts of the Vera Choir that include Christmas Concerts, Canada Day celebrations and musical contributing for the ‘Relay for Life.’

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Keith Greeninger paints intricate portraits of the human condition with powerful melodic images, deep engaging guitar rhythms and warm heart wrenching vocals. He is a multi award winning singer songwriter and this year’s winner of the prestigious Telluride Troubadour National Song Writing Competition. His deep, textured voice, rich, engaging songwriting, comes with nothing more than a guitar in hand and a song with a story to tell, Keith can completely captivate an audience. His husky heart-felt vocals and aggressive acoustic guitar style offer more than the standard bill-of-fare for most folk singers and more musicality and sensitivity than today’s average rock band.

FDAC Member tickets: $18/adult; $10/youth. Non-member tickets: $20/adult; $12/youth.

Tickets are available at the Blue Toque, Carosella's, Freshies, the Good Earth and The Arts Station.

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Zeellia is the remedy for reality

Unleash the mystical power of Eastern Europe with Zeellia. This world-class six-piece band will both exalt you and haunt you with its fusion of folk music from Ukraine, the Balkan and Baltic States and the Canadian prairie.

With three vocalists, an accordionist, bass player and violinist, Zeellia - the Ukrainian word for the power of herbs to alter reality - entreat you to embrace your supernatural Slavic soul. The group’s collection of old-world songs takes you on a journey to a land steeped in farming history, while its new-world songs reminds you of Canada’s own agricultural history.

“The belief was that the ancestors lived in the fields and orchards helping them to grow,” group founder Beverly Dobrinsky explains. “The ancestors live in the songs as well, helping those who sing and hear them to grow.”

Zeellia take these traditional songs and breathe contemporary life into them, arranging the music and lyrics in ways that both respects the past and looks to the future. Whether performing a cappella or with musicians, the vocalists take centre stage with songs that are sometimes sombre and other times jovial. The music can celebrate the bounty of nature or denounce the oppression of man, but the songs all weave magic

FDAC Member tickets: $18/adult; $10/youth. Non-member tickets: $20/adult; $12/youth.

Tickets are available at the Blue Toque, Carosella's, Freshies, the Good Earth and The Arts Station.

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An Arts Station Program

All hail the King of Silly!

Bring out your spare funny bones! Lorne Elliott is set to send your giggles madly off in all directions at the Arts Station.

With his barely tamed afro, his rubbery face and his miniature guitar, the Canadian musical comedian is the master of all that is silly, side-splitting and strange.

Combining dry humour with musical parodies and skits Elliott is a shrewd observer of the behaviour of the Canadian human animal. Often self-deprecating, always silly and never profane, Elliott’s funny is family friendly.

“I did [use profanity] when I was younger,” Elliott says. “It doesn’t really work for me. And also, I never really felt great about it. I always say, ‘people laugh, but they don’t respect you in the morning.’”

Host of CBC Radio’s Madly off in All Directions and a regular performer at Montreal’s Just for Laughs festival, Elliott has been performing professionally on stage for more than two decades. His ability to entertain is a keen as his wit. When not touring with his one-man musical comedy show, Elliott finds time to write and perform in plays, as well as produce them.

“A genuine and talented nut-case… quick-witted and relevant” —Tom Reagan - Halifax DAILY NEWS

“His show runs the gamut from the sublime to the ridiculous, but all of it literally sucks laughter out of your face.” —Lance Callahan - The Newfoundland HERALD

FDAC Member tickets: $20/adult; $12/youth. Non-member tickets: $25/adult; $15/youth.

Tickets are available at the Blue Toque, Carosella's, Freshies, the Good Earth and The Arts Station.

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An Arts Station Program

Have guitar, will travel

It’s probably impossible to calculate the number of miles Steve Palmer has logged in as a travelling troubadour. It was, after all, 1966 when he first set out with his guitar opening for many of the big named suspects of the ’60s British Invasion, including the Who, Led Zepplin and Cream.

As far back as he can remember music has been the one constant pursuit in his life. He remembers listening to all kinds of music on the radio, from Bing Crosby to Hank Williams.

“Immediately, music involves you, it engages you. You can sit there and tap along to it,” Palmer says. “A visual artist—that’s their personal statement. Generally, you don’t join into that.”

It took Palmer over 30 years before he made the decision to strike out as a solo musician and rediscover his love for writing and performing his own music. He’d spent so much time travelling around with his good-time band, delighting audiences across Western Canada with their favourites, that he found it difficult to make time for his own creativity.

Kick-back and enjoy an evening of folk music written and composed by Steve.

FDAC Member tickets: $12/adult; $8/youth. Non-member tickets: $15/adult; $10/youth.

Tickets are available at the Blue Toque, Carosella's, Freshies, the Good Earth and The Arts Station.

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An Arts Station Program

You’ll always find me in the kitchen at parties

Come On In My Kitchen and feast your hungry ears with a rich meal of roots. Tantalize your taste for blues. Warm yourself up with folk remedies. Inspired by the age-old tradition of congregating in the kitchen, or on the porch, and swapping stories and songs, this show brings intimate and raucous jamming to the Arts Station March 28.

Since beginning in 1999, the show and its host, Edmonton-based guitarist and singer Mark Sterling, boast impressive musical alumni, including Big Dave MacLean, Donnie “Mr. Downchild” Walsh, Bill Bourne and Harry Manx. With cups of Delta, Chicago and Piedmont blues and dashes of swing, country and vintage folk, Come In My Kitchen cooks up old-style comfort food and dazzling original recipes.

“It’s like the best ingredients of a folk festival workshop, but with musicians who have a telepathic thing going on and a fearlessness that allows everyone to jump in and take a song to a place it’s never gone before,” Sterling says. The musician cut his teeth recording and touring with Toronto ’s award-winning folk-rock trio Hemmingway Corner, before he returned to Edmonton in the late ’90s, leapt back into the blues and knocked off two fine solo albums.

FDAC Member tickets: $20/adult; $12/youth. Non-member tickets: $25/adult; $15/youth.

Tickets are available at the Blue Toque, Carosella's, Freshies, the Good Earth and The Arts Station.

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An Arts Station Program

A multiple Canadian Juno Award winner, Bill Bourne has received international acclaim for his recordings and live performances. A mainstay on the international roots scene, life on the road is reflected in Bill’s music - powerful rhythms and soulful songs, steeped in World Beat, Blues, Cajun, Celtic, Folk, Flamenco, Funk, Poetry and more…
Tickets: Member $18; $10 youth; Regular $20; $12 youth.
At Freshies; Carosella’s, The Good Earth; The Arts Station.
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Dinner & CaberetSpice up your winter!

An Arts Station Program

Romp through an evening fun & frolics & fantastic eats.

Cajun Cuisine, Sassy Music, Devilish Dance & Tantalizing Theatre.

Over 15 Stellar Cameos by Fernies Fantastic Talent.

Come one, come all and join in the party of the season. Kick-Off the Griz Days with Southern Warmth!

Sold out for the past 2 years - Don’t miss this one!

It’s time to get on your Mardi Gras costume for the 3rd Annual Mardi Gras Cabaret. Spice up the end of winter with Cajun cuisine, mirthful musicians, sultry singers and thunderous thespians who will fill you with frivolity.

Appearing under the MC Lindsay Adams are: Guillaume Courmont; Benjamin Danic; Tara Findlay; Kerri Holmes; Coraley Letcher; Lilly; Sage McBride; Kelly Proctor; Sonia Roy; Mike Shaver; Dianne Stothers; Erin Teeple; Cathy Wells - together with The Big Dreamers Theatre; The New World Choir; Rhythm Inc. Dance; and much more…

The evening begins with a candlelit buffet dinner, served up by the Blue Toque Diner, complete with vegetarian and omnivorous options. See a Wow! show and enjoy a scrumptious chocolate fondue during the intermission.

Dinner at 6 pm., Show at 7:30 pm. (Open bar from 7pm.)
Dinner & Show $40 (includes Chocolate Fondue Desert); Show only $15 (Add Fondue Desert $5); Cash Bar

Tickets are available at the Arts Station and all proceeds go to support the Arts Station and its programming.
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Trio Amaranth Piano, Cello & Violin
At the Baptist Church
1622 – 10th. Ave. Fernie

The outstanding skills of the Trio Amaranth presents a diverse program of Beethoven, Brahms, Chausson & Dvořák. This high-calibre trio spawned from the University of Lethbridge, have been received to rave reviews since their debut concert in March 2007 that was a huge success and offered audiences a chance to hear a beautiful but seldom-performed work – the original (1854) version of the Brahms Piano Trio in B Major, Op. 8.

Pianist Deanna Oye, Cellist Tido Janssen & Violinist Peter Visentin, bring a wealth of solo, chamber music and orchestral experience to the stage. Together they are terrific!

Tickets are available at the Blue Toque, Carosella's, Freshies, the Good Earth and The Arts Station.
FDAC Member tickets: $18/adult; $10/youth. Non-member tickets: $20/adult; $12/youth.