Small Town, Big Arts Festival
MAYO The Village of Mayo, named most astutely after a certain Alfred H. Mayo, one-time circus acrobat, is hosting, for the fifth year in a
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Nancy Smythe Leaves the Yukon … But Not The Theatre
BY JANELLE HARDY “When I heard your voicemail, I cried!” With that, community theatre enthusiast Nancy Smythe openly and vigorously agreed to be interviewed. A
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My Mom, The Felter
BY JANELLE HARDY “Felting is a long and arduous process that compromises your back and the flooding of your house is a real hazard,” describes
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Music Teacher Gets the Entire Family Involved
Squinting her left eye a little in emphasis, Danette Readman says she started her introduction to the Suzuki Method of musical instruction with a grain
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The Return of Scotch
Talk to any Yukon musician playing Outside and you’ll get all sorts of small-world stories. Take Declan O’Donovan, lead vocals, piano and acoustic guitar for
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Playing and Teaching, and Still Liking It
Dean Tower teaches violin to just about anybody. “My oldest student was 87, but I try not to take much younger than six years old,”
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The Family That Sticks Together
“It was just all a manner of the stars lining up,” uttered Well-Read Books owner Jan Stick, describing how they came to share space with
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Root Sellers’ International Career an Olympian Feat
BY JANELLE HARDY They’re a fixture in the local music scene and, increasingly, nationally. Now at the Beijing Olympics, the brotherly duo of the long-blonde
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Heidi Hehn Uses the Big Brush
BY JANELLE HARDY Crisp, precise and focused. On viewing most of Yukon painter Heidi Hehn’s paintings, these words draw closest to finding an underlying mood
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Letting the Mouse Lead the Way to Paradise
BY JANELLE HARDY Making the most of technology, in an industry devoted to getting people as far from the trappings of daily life as possible,
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Music Festivals the Australian Way
BY JANELLE HARDY Scritch, scritch, scritch, went the sand as people walked through it. Sunbathers, surfers, boogeyboarders, wedding parties, everyone was on the beach basking
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