Local Arts

Thompson Playhouse held its annual general meeting Nov.

Aurora Dance Academy, John Ham, Tony Whalen, Kory Wickdahl and Tracey “Smitty” Smith entertained the crowd at the Thompson Regional Community Centre Aug. 31 when the summer swan song Party in the Park was forced inside due to weather.

During his most recent trip to the Hub of the North, former resident Earl McKay set up shop at the Meridian Hotel Aug. 16−25 in order to sell some of his latest wildlife-inspired paintings. However, he set one creation aside for a charity raffle.

Despite being banished to the Thompson Regional Community Centre due to unseasonably cold weather , local musicians John Ham (guitar), Tracey “Smitty” Smith (bass) and Kory Wickdahl (drums) performed at the final noon-hour Concert in the Park show of

CBC North Country, the Thompson-based radio show that was last on the air March 31, 2017, former host Mark Szyszlo’s last day on the job after more than 30 years behind the microphone, will soon return to the airwaves.

For the past couple of years , members of the R.D. Parker Collegiate drama program have put together a series of plays instead of writing a traditional exam.

The School District of Mystery Lake Grade 6, Grade 7 and Grade 8 bands performed in concert alongside the R.D. Parker Collegiate Grade 9 band at a year-end concert June 13.

R.D Parker Collegiate’s senior concert band and choir, as well as the VocoMotion vocal jazz group and the Adrenaline jazz ensemble kicked off the end-of-school-year concert season June 5 with the music program’s 33 rd -annual Cabaret.

The organizers behind the 52nd Thompson Festival of the Arts took over the C.A. Nesbit Arena May 17−18 to showcase the large smorgasbord of talent that inhabits the local community.

Big Wreck, a band formed in Boston in 1994 by Canadian vocalist and lead guitarist Ian Thornley, have been announced as the headline act at the Nickel Days social June 23 in Thompson.