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Gibsons Heritage Playhouse
9th Annual Showcase of Performing Arts
Thursday, July 1st - Saturday, July 17th, 2010

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Times: Evenings 8:00 pm
Tickets can be purchased after June 19th at: Gaia's Fair Trade Gifts, Hallmark Cards, & Sechelt Visitors Bureau.

PERFORMANCE LINE-UP

July 2  -- Gala Night with Skye Wallace  

Skye Wallace began vocal training at the age of eight. Over the years of developing her own particularly unique style, leagues of original music have surged forth onto the page and into the microphone.

In a nutshell, Skye is a young, passionate, and vivacious singer-songwriter that has dazzled many a crowd through venues from festivals to radio shows, and plans to continue on this route to create and perform.

Having just finished her first studio album 'Amuse-bouche', plans for a Canadian tour in the fall are in the works to promote this new EP and accentuate her career as a musician.

 
     
Presented by :

Tickets: $15.00

This is a catered event with no host bar. Catering is provided by Wild Bistro.

Doors open at 7:00 PM; Performance 8:00 PM

 

 

July 3 -- Pianothon  

Come out and enjoy an evening of various pianist performing on our Knabe grand piano. All proceeds from this evening will go towards maintenance of the Knabe and restoration of the Mehlin foyer piano.

The MC for the evening will be Berni G.

Performers include: JJ Wagler, Ken Dalgleish, Katherine Hume, Heather Cattenach, and Weldon Epp.

 
Presented by :  

Tickets: $10.00

Doors open at 7:30 PM; Performance 8:00 PM

 

 

July 4 -- Skeleton Woman Dance Show   

Skeleton Woman is an interpretation through dance of an Inuit folk tale. The choreography, by Lindsay Prentice, involves 29 dancers who will tell the story of a skeleton woman who lay on the ocean floor until she was caught in her ribcage by a fisherman's hook. The story invites us to explore the deeper mysteries of relationship as the fisherman journey's through his fear to find love and the skeleton woman moves through death to find life.

poster by Rebecca Samaras

 
  
Presented by :

 

Tickets: $12

Doors open @ 7:30; Performance 8:00 PM

 

July 7 -- FILM: Silence at the Heart of Things  

SYNOPSIS

Silence at the Heart of Things is Stormy Nights Productions’ documentary about Oliver Schroer, fiddler extraordinaire. During a career cut short by illness, this iconoclastic folk musician recorded and produced over 100 albums, composed about 1000 pieces of music and inspired a whole generation of younger musicians. In fact B.C.’s The Twisted String, the youth group he formed is still going strong. The film follows Oliver in the final months of his life as he prepares for his “Last Concert on the Tour of the Planet”, which was for him and his fans a joyful celebration of his life’s work.
 

Presented by :

 Russell F. Crum Law Office Karen Careless

Tickets: $12.00

Doors open at 7:30 PM; Performance 8:00 PM

 

 

July 8 -- The Now Generation 2010  


Mike & Maddy Weber
Gedeon & Courtenay Lizee
Stephanie Slingerland
Tonielle King-Rose
Nikki & Emily Sherwood
Rene Desalniers
Accompanists: Ken Dalgleish and Bonnar Harris

  
Presented by :  

Tickets: $15.00

Doors open at 7:30 PM; Performance 8:00 PM

 

 

July 9 -- Evening of Dance 

DsDanse performing group and Dance Works senior dancers join together to bring you an exciting evening of dance.

 

Presented by :

 

Tickets: $15.00

Doors open @ 7:30; Performance 8:00 PM

 

 

July10 -- Celtic Night  

The Sunshine Coast School of Celtic Music  presents -  The Youth Trad Band.
 
Presented by :

 

Tickets: $15.00

Doors open @ 7:30; Performance 8:00 PM

 

 

July 11 -- Billy Hillpicker Band

 

The Billy Hillpicker Band is known on the Sunshine Coast for their "good time" interpretation of bluegrass, roots, folk and original tunes. Four guys on guitar, banjo, another banjo, and bass, with well crafted harmonies and toe-tapping music that will always leave you smiling.


 
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Tickets: $15.00

Doors open @ 7:30; Performance 8:00 PM

 

 

July 14, 15, 16 -- C.E. Production: Talking Heads by Alan Bennett

This is the fourth SOPA presentation of some of the Talking Heads solo pieces by Alan Bennett. This year it is " Nights in the Gardens of Spain" performed by Nest Lewis and "Soldiering On", performed by Colleen Elson.

Talking Heads is an award-winning series of solo pieces showing Bennett's  combination of razor sharp wit and deeply felt humanity. Some of these pieces have been performed both on BBC television and on stage. These extraordinary portraits of ordinary people confirm Bennett's place as one of the most gifted, versatile and important writers in the English language.

NEST LEWIS  has performed in Alan Bennett's "Bed Among The Lentils" and "Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet" in previous SOPA presentations. Nest has had much acclaim for her performances, not only in SOPA, but in the many roles she has played over the past forty years. Her last major appearance was in " On Golden Pond".

COLLEEN ELSON was last seen in "Waiting for the Telegram", another of Bennett's solo pieces.  Her other "Talking Heads" appearances were in "Lady of Letters" and "A Cream Cracker Under the Settee". Colleen is the founder of C.E. Productions.

Presented by :

Jack Jory

  

Tickets: $12

Doors open @ 7:30PM; Performance 8:00 PM

 

 

July 17 -- Berni G & Frenz

 

 

Music from the roaring 20s and fabulous 50s with Berni G, Paul Steenuis, Barry Taylor, Ian McLatchie, Gary McGuire, Walter Martella and a new Frenz, Outback Ozzie.
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Tickets: $15

Doors open @ 7:30PM; Performance 8:00 PM