Local Arts

Country singer Kira Isabella sings one of her songs with the band Doc Walker providing backup, during the Weyburn stop for the CP Holiday Train. Weyburn was the last stop for the U.S.

It is the most wonderful time of the year, the sounds of music are heard everywhere we go and that reminds members of the Estevan and District Music Festival committee that this annual event is looming on the horizon.

Students from the Drewitz School of Dance under the direction of Lorie-Gay Drewitz-Gallaway, participated in the SDTA Highland exams on Nov. 24 with Myra Miller from Glasgow, Scotland serving as the examiner.

Hints of Harmony, a musical group based in Wawota for the past 32 years, hosted their annual Christmas Concert on Sunday, Dec. 13, to a full house at the Wawota United Church.

Chart-topping, multi-platinum selling singer-songwriter Johnny Reid has announced his 2016 “What Love Is All About” national tour and due to overwhelming response keeps adding dates.

The Souris Valley Theatre announced its plans to draw in crowds this coming season, when competing with the flourishing 2016 Saskatchewan Summer Games. At a Dec.

One of Canada’s most well-known country music performers is coming to Affinity Place next year. Johnny Reid will bring his What Love Is All About national tour to Estevan on Feb. 14. Doors will open at 6 p.m. and the concert begins at 7:30 p.m.

The annual fall band concert at Gordon F. Kells High School was hosted on Monday, Nov. 30, at 7:30 p.m.

The Cornerstone Theatre group hosted another successful retelling of “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens. With three shows (Friday, Dec. 4, Saturday, Dec. 5, and Sunday, Dec.

Claire Miller, 15, of Bienfait received the top mark in Saskatchewan on the Level 4 violin examination conducted by the Royal Conservatory of Music.