We had summer on the Monday of the long weekend, it was really marvelous! Ah well, lucky we have so much arts and culture happening indoors.
I know I talked about Flipside Opera in the last column, but it is going to be so good I just had to say it again.
Darryl Friesen, Aaron Hutton, Matthew Pauls, Elizabeth Hoyt-Surdhar and company founder Judith Oatway will present an evening of the songs of John Greer.
John Greer is a Manitoba-born composer and conductor who composes art songs inspired by the poetry and folk music of the Canadian prairie. He brings a new twist to old stories that will be beautifully performed by the two tenors, baritone, mezzo and soprano voices. The singers promise to weave the audience into the storytelling.
They will be ably accompanied by Lisa Rumpel on keyboards. She has graced Flin Flon with her talents before. She was here with the Home Routes Classical project and played our gorgeous Steinway at the RH Channing Auditorium.
Greeriad by Flipside Opera is presented by the Flin Flon Arts Council and will be performed at Johnny’s Social Club on Saturday, June 3 at 7:30 pm. Tickets are at Northern Rainbow’s End.
The Wood ’n’ Wire series resumes at Johnny’s Social Club with a countrified show, Johnny’s Honky Tonk. The performance will showcase the singing talents of Johnny Bettger, Trevor Gordon, Imrianna Jones, Kim Jones, Emily Sparling and CC Trubiak. They will be joined onstage by some brilliant musicians.
Most of those names will be familiar to local audiences, but two newer recruits to the region are Trevor Gordon and Emily Sparling. Both are teachers at Hapnot Collegiate, where Trevor teaches graphics and plans to introduce a course in sound technology.
He has significantly upgraded the sound at Johnny’s Social Club for local and visiting performers and their audiences, so he obviously has expertise in that area; however, his singing and songwriting talents are the focus of this performance. I love his album, Running Free.
Emily Sparling played a high school student in Greaseand had a supporting role in The Rocky Horror Show last fall. Now she will be singing solo at the Honky Tonk. Tickets are at The Orange Toad.
It’s a bit early to mention, but I have to do it now because my next column will be from London, England (yep, I’m going on the road to bring you arts and culture from the birthplace of theatre).
Slumdog Millionaire is the next film presented by the Central Canada Film Group series Great Movies You May Have Missed by Colin Davis. It will be on Friday, June 23 at 7 pm at Hapnot Collegiate’s Dorothy Ash Theatre. Admission is free.
