April showers bring May flowers and lots of blues and R and B music in Lethbridge.
But first, start the week with a little country music.
Amy Nelson plus Good Gal Vintage return to the Owl Acoustic lounge tonight, Tuesday, April 30.
Also on Tuesday, The Slice has a big jazz rock show with Calgary‘s number one brass band Delirium featuring vocalist Ali Wick
Steve Foord hosts the Slice’s open mic on Wednesday, May 1.
Impromptu returns to Good Times for Queer Prov Flower Power Edition, Thursday, May 2. Tickets are $14.95. The laughs begin at 7 p.m
Calgary comedian Chris Gordon brings the funny to Good Times on Friday and Saturday. Tickets are $19.95.
The Southminster United Church hosts a free concert, Friday, May 3 to fight cancer.
Local country musicians Trevor Panczak and The Cody Hall band plus the LCI Gold jazz band perform beginning at 7 p.m. Admission is free but donations to the Canadian Cancer Society are welcome.
Cal Toth and Anna McBryan bring duelling pianos back to the Place on Friday, May 3 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door.
If you like R and B and pop music with a folk influence, Calgary based pop and soul singer Natalie Inga hits the Slice stage in support of her new EP “Nothing Less than Me.”
Honker’s Pub welcomes Bill Weiler and Dennis Wade to host the open mic on Friday, May 3. Horizon will play all of your favourites at Honkers Pub on Saturday.
Classic rockers won’t want to miss the return of Creedence Clearwater Remembered who play the Enmax Centre, Saturday, May 4. The show features a multi-media presentation and the powerhouse vocals of El Niven and an all star cast of CCMA award winning veterans.Tickets are $48 and $65.
Local country band Border Bound returns to Casino Lethbridge this weekend.
And there is an all ages jam at Salsas by Karolls’s on Saturday beginning at 6 p.m.
The SAAG art auction happens May 4. It features a sit down meal, live entertainment and an auction of art from SAAG exhibitors and local artists.. Tickets are going fast. They begin at $161.08 or $150 for members. Doors open at 5 p.m. for the exhibition. Dinner from Bourbon and Butter is at 6:15. Tanika Charles performs at 9 p.m.
The other big event this week is Hatrix Theatre’s sold out production of Agatha Christies’ murder mystery the Mousetrap. The show runs May 1-4 at the Moose Hall.
You can relive some of last summers Wide Skies music festival’s best moments this weekend.
If you remember R and B and Soul Recording of the year two time Juno Award nominee Tanika Charles’ gorgeous set of blues and R and B at the Wide Skies Music Festival last summer, she returns to Lethbridge to play the Southern Alberta Art Gallery art auction and the Owl Acoustic Lounge, Saturday, April 4. The show begins at 9 p.m.
Tickets are $39.95.
The Owl Acoustic Lounge welcomes back the Harpoonist aka Shawn Hall of Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer plus Big Sugar’s Gordie Johnson, who were also a hit at Wide Skies, Sunday, April 5.
Tickets are $26.94 for the show which begins at 8 p.m.
The Slice turns things up with a local punk rock show including the Hockey Moms, doom folk band Northern Flicker and Blind Eyes Saints, Saturday, May 4.
The Slice also has a big punk show on a Tuesday night with the Motherfuckers and Random Killing who stop by Lethbridge in the middle of their 40th anniversary tour, Tuesday, May 7.
The show begins at 9 p.m. Tickets are $20.
— By Richard Amery, L.A. Beat Editor
