For its second year, music festival Black Ice Festival will be taking place in Calgary at Loophole Coffee Bar from Dec. 8-14. Black Ice Festival celebrates facets of Calgary’s music scene that can often be overlooked, with attendees able to see numerous Alberta music acts through one festival
Studio Bell is hosting their After Hours Party after five years when they last hosted this event in 2019, before the pandemic. After Hours is a nighttime series that’s geared towards music fans that are 18+. The holiday edition will be taking place Dec. 14 at 7 p.m.
“It's okay to find the moments where you just let yourself pause. Linger in the stillness, linger in the sweetness. Let the leaves falling help you remember that you don't have to be drowning or engulfed in the flames, but that you can find lightness as
Alberta Ballet will be making its return to the Jubilee Auditorium with its returning production of The Nutcracker, a classic ballet that is a holiday staple for many theatre goers and fans of ballet. Allison Perhach sat down with The Gauntlet to comment on this year’s Edmonton and Calgary
I had the pleasure of attending Decidedly Jazz Danceworks’ In Motion III, their third annual installment put on by Ballet Bodies and run by artistic director, Serenella Sol. The show was a collection of seven contemporary dance numbers, each vastly different than the one before. From soft, balletic pieces such
With over 100,000 hours of vocal performance, Italian pop singer Ariana Grande and Black, British thespian Cynthia Erivo are like the sun, pulling in the entire solar system of the theatre industry to watch Universal Pictures’ adaptation of Gregory Maguire’s 1995 book Wicked, based on L. Frank Baum’
This Gauntlet Mixtape Vol. 28: Soundtracked! compiles the best cinema soundtracks from both the big and small screen! All you have to do now is press play and let every song transport you into a different world. LEIGH: VOLUNTEER * “a thousand years” by Christina Perri * It's a well
Vertigo Theatre presents Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Links and will follow the titular detective Hercule Poirot and his charming assistant Captain Arthur Hastings on their journey to solve the murder of Paul Renauld. The plot of the play features twists and turns that will leave audiences in a
Theatrical satire can age poorly, but not so for The Book of Mormon. Over a decade after its Broadway debut, this gleefully irreverent musical remains a sharp, hilariously crafted jab at cultural arrogance, organized religion and the conventions of musical theatre itself. The latest touring production played at Calgary’s
The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra has been in operation since 1955 and has become a vital part of the thriving arts scene in Calgary. On Nov. 15-16, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra hosted Nicolas Namoradze, the winner of the prestigious Honens International Piano Competition in 2018, which is one of the
