Over at the Bowman Arts Centre, March 5, Sonis McAllister and the Barracuda Orchestre showed a bit of their history and entertained the crowd with wild experimentation and a touch of blues and jazz.
One of the exhibitions opening upstairs featured a few “artifacts” from the band including samples of their tour diary, an unusual sculpture, a gold record, old tour posters and a lot more.
Downstairs in the dance studio, the band dressed in white, rapped out cacophonic rhythms on an array of pipes, wheels, television sets and a lot more, backdropped by three pillars featuring coloured rubber balls on the top of them.
Their second song had more of a New Orleans jazz feel as McAllister got the audience moving and chanting along with them.
The Penny building downtown is going to be a regular gallery for University of Lethbridge professors and students. They held their first big opening, March 5 which drew a good sized crowd.
There were a variety of works from a sauna which incorporated a video display. Other works included paintings, photographs, a video of a fully dressed man sitting in a ice- cold tup of water, spaceship sculptures made of found items, drawings and several other sculptures.