Summer Music Camp
This year’s Yukon Summer Music Camp is going ahead, with a new producer and administrative officer at the helm. Yukon Music Camp Society has opened registration for the second year of Yukon Summer Music Camp, pandemic edition.
Summer is here and so is Arts in the Park
The 23rd annual Arts in the Park, running from May 21 until August 2, is here to usher in the summer season. There are few
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Music and learning
Students from Holy Family Elementary School wrote, performed, and produced their very own CD.
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Arts in the Park: Grab your Lunch and Get Ready to Boogie!
Arts in the Park is about to head into another spectacular season of performing arts over lunch hour at Whitehorse’s LePage Park.
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Rain or Shine, It’s a Good Time
There is a little park in the centre of downtown Whitehorse where magic happens during the summer. Every weekday lunch hour, for 11 glorious weeks,
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Arts In the Park Returns with a New Captain at the Helm
Geneviève Doyon first summer as Arts in the Park coordinator. “I am very aware of the legacy that has been placed on my shoulders,”
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The fiddle remembers
Harold Routledge did not remember that he had built this fiddle with his own hands; but the tunes, and the skill to play it, were
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The Sunstroke Music Festival is a Sign of Summer
Sunstroke Music Festival, a fundraiser for Kona’s Coalition, helps animals by educating people, advocating, and providing financial support.
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French, Ukrainian and hillbilly tunes heat up Yukon night
In my last column I lamented the public’s lack of interest in getting up on the open stages of Whitehorse and performing. This past week
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Music Yukon wears many hats
MusicYukon opened doors to the resource centre last September with a promise of funding from Economic Development’s Strategic Industries.
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Frostbite brings music from all over the world: It’s the Thrill on the Hill
The Canada Council grant made it possible for the committee to decide on a “chase list” that just happens to coincide with Barnes’ “wish list”
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Packing the Park
Does Lepage Park have a max seating capacity? Arts In The Park Production Assistant Kasey Rae Anderson doesn’t think so. “We broke 500 today,”
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It’s been a long time since I was in public school. As I remember, we had a music program … we sang and entered choir
Harmonica Virtuoso With a Heart of Gold
Kate Weekes and Grant Simpson were touched by A Walk In My Dream, about harmonica virtuoso Mike Stevens, bringing the film to Whitehorse
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Special Sessions
The phrases “a picture is worth a thousand words” and “those who forget history are doomed to repeat it” are taking on new meanings this
Telling Tales
As he wraps up teaching a kids’ drama class, the Family Literacy Centre’s Brendan Wiklund switches gears to talk about Tales to be Told, a
Mr. Music
This is day one of Year 15,” announced Steve Slade, as he opened the Yukon Arts Society’s first Arts in the Park lunchtime show of
Tots Telling Tales
The First Nations tradition of passing stories down from generation to generation is alive and well at Grey Mountain Primary School. This week, the school
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History Lessons Through the Blues
Doc MacLean walks into the Odd Fellows Hall in Dawson City for the songwriters’ circle on March 1 wearing all black. He’s a tall, slender
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Arts in the Park Returns for Year 12
Steve Slade has been the self-described “Jack of all Trades” with Arts in the Park since its inaugural season.
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