Local Arts

The Thompson Community Band, conducted by the irrepressible Wally Itson, gave its final performance of the 2008-2009 concert season June 16 at the Letkemann Theatre as guest performers at the Thompson Music Teachers Association annual concert.

Wagz is the sixth bass guitarist hometown favourite metal band Dreadnaut has used on the low end in six years.

The Mexican Hat Dance, as performed June 13 at the Thompson Multicultural Centre's Festival of the Seven Seas, is always a perennial crowd pleaser in Thompson.

Members of artistic director Pedro Aurelio's 12-year-old Bolero Dance Theatre from Winnipeg were in town last week for the Thompson Multicultural Centre's Festival of the Seven Seas.

Many different students were recognized at this year's Thompson Festival of the Arts, held from May 29 to 31, students take part in the event along with regional Northern Juried Art Show artists at the C. A. Nesbitt Arena.

A year after a Phase 1 feasibility study was unveiled promoting a primarily aboriginal arts facility in Thompson, a spinoff known as Spirit Way Arts Centre has landed $12,500 for a Phase 2 contribution from the City of Thompson "to complete its busin