Briefly: Barenaked Ladies coming to Casino Regina in December


Odds and ends from the local arts-entertainment scene.

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Tickets are on sale now for the Barenaked Ladies, who visit the Casino Regina Show Lounge on Dec. 9.

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The multi-platinum Canadian pop-rock group is travelling across Canada for the Hometown Holidays Tour and playing songs from their Barenaked for the Holidays album, plus “a few other chestnuts and surprises.”

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The Show Lounge is also hosting a series of tribute shows in the coming days, including: The Legendary Life of Tom Petty (Saturday), Roy Orbison and the Everly Brothers Reimagined (Wednesday), The Story of the Hag: A Salute to Merle Haggard (Thursday), It’s 5 O’Clock Right Here! The Alan Jackson Experience (Friday), and Wannabe: A Tribute To The Spice Girls (Oct. 14).

More information and tickets at casinoregina.com.

Beginning today (Oct. 1), a six-per-cent provincial sales tax will be added to most entertainment tickets in Saskatchewan.

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Mezzo-soprano Clare Ghigo is scheduled to perform on Nov. 30 at the Conexus Arts Centre’s Shumiatcher Room.

Ghigo, an award-winning opera singer who has performed around the world, is to be joined for the Regina show by Luis Sanchez on piano.

The Conexus Arts Centre is also hosting a retro concert on Oct. 7 in the main theatre — Relive the Music: 50s and 60s Rock N Roll.

It’s described as “a one-of-a-kind show that takes the audience through music history, trivia and memories of the ‘50s and ‘60s,” according to a media release. “You will learn many things you never knew about these artists. You will see an energetic live band, amazing frontline singers, and dancers transforming and re-living through two decades of music, costumes, trends, and dancing along with informative video imagery in the background.”

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The show features hits from Johnny Cash, Fats Domino, Frank Sinatra, Little Richard, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Chubby Checker, The Beatles, The Temptations, The Rolling Stones, Tina Turner, Neil Diamond, the Beach Boys, and more.

Tickets at conexusartscentre.ca.

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SaskMusic is accepting nominations until Oct. 3 for the fifth annual Saskatchewan Music Awards.

The event honours excellence in the Saskatchewan music industry with a live and livestreamed ceremony on Dec. 11 at Darke Hall in Regina.

The awards are being held in conjunction with the Very Prairie Saskatchewan Music Summit from Dec. 8-11 (veryprairie.ca).

​​“There is a wealth of exciting music being created in Saskatchewan (that) deserves much broader attention,” SaskMusic said in a media release. “The awards will help us to celebrate and share this wide variety of music with music lovers both here at home and beyond our borders. We invite Sask. artists and industry members to make their submissions. We’re really looking forward to once again sharing and celebrating the hard work of our talented artists and industry folks.”

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More info and submissions can be made at saskmusicawards.com and saskmusic.org.

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Regina is one of nine Canadian cities hosting the Greek International Film Festival’s Tour of Canada this weekend (Friday to Sunday).

The festival includes screenings of Greek feature films, documentaries and short films at the Regina Public Library and the Kramer IMAX.

More info and a schedule can be found at gifft.ca/Regina or on the Regina Greek Events Facebook page (www.facebook.com/GreekEventsRegina).

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The Neutral Ground Artist-Run Centre is offering a new exhibition (Carcass — The Posthistoric Queer) from now to Nov. 12

The exhibition is by Finnish moving image artist Elian Mikkola, who’s staging a fictional post-apocalypse narrative in Neutral Ground’s main gallery, using immersive digital projection and found objects.

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Mikkola is a graduate of the University of Regina.

“Stepping in, I invite you to the year 3000, a time of posthumxn species,” Mikkola said in a media release. “After mankind broke our planet into pieces around 2050-2070, a queer variant of the homo sapien continued to survive. Preposterous development and the use of natural resources for self-indulging activities led to the total destruction and death of animal, plant and human life. However, due to resilience and highly enhanced adaptational skills, the queer variant learned to survive in the harsh conditions of the newly transformed planet. The artifacts in display and the re-enactments seen in multiple projections invite you to observe the life and survival of our queer ancestors.”

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UPCOMING CONCERTS: Ben Sures is scheduled to perform on Friday (Oct. 7) at the Slate Fine Art Gallery in Regina. The Edmonton-based singer/songwriter is touring in support of his latest album, The Story That Lived Her … Also on Oct. 7, Canadian folk singer Basia Bulat is coming to The Artesian as part of The Garden Tour … Canadian country singer Mariel Buckley is visiting The Artesian on Oct. 20 in support of her new album, Everywhere I Used To Be … Three-time Juno nominee Don Amero is scheduled for the Regina Performing Arts Centre on Oct. 12. The country singer is joined by Tim & The Glory Boys on their national Home-Town Hoedown Tour … The Bros. Landreth, a Juno-winning alternative country and folk duo, are coming to The Artesian on Oct. 28 in celebration of their third studio album, Come Morning … Folk-blues singer David Myles is slated to perform at The Artesian on Oct. 23 in support of his new album, It’s Only A Little Loneliness.

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