Local Entertainment News

UPDATE: (Nov. 7) Repartee's show at Track's Pub has been rescheduled to Nov. 9. Repartee, a St. John’s, N.L. based pop band, is making its way west for the first time since forming in 2009. It will be stopping at Tracks Pub on Nov. 9.

Locomotive Ghost will be making its first appearance in two years at Tracks Pub on Nov. 2, promoting a special four-album project revolving around the seasons.

Tupelo Honey will be changing up its sound for a show on Oct. 17 at Tracks Pub. Normally, the Edmonton-based band's sound features heavily-amplified guitars, loud drums and more of a “stadium rock” sound, said front-man Dan Davidson.

Lorene Runham will be the featured artist at the Olds Art Club's semi-annual show and sale, taking place on November 2 and 3. Runham will collaborate on the show, entitled CottonwoodSky, with Theresa Potter.

Local personal trainer and fitness instructor Drew Taddia had no idea his nutrition-focused book Detoxify Yourself was in the No. 3 position on the New York Times' non-fiction bestsellers list for Calgary until someone in his fitness class told him.

The idea for Arianna Richardson's exhibition now on display at Olds' Mountain View Museum bloomed during a six-week road trip across the Prairies last summer.

The Olds Royal Canadian Legion will host the Southern Alberta Road Show on Aug. 24. The variety show begins at 8 p.m.

Olds thespian Aaron Casselman is doing double-duty performing in a pair of the Bard's plays taking to the stage in Red Deer from July 18 to Aug. 4.

Like many people who travel to the West to take in the sights, explore a little and see what the area has to offer, Dustin Jones has headed west for the first time. Jones, along with the Rising Tide, rolls into Olds to play Tracks Pub on June 19.

Loverboy still enjoys playing live shows – even after being in the music business for 33 years.