Local Arts

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.

The 2018 Northern Juried Art Show has been cancelled due to a lack of artists, organizers announced April 16, the day after the deadline for entries.

The 2018 Thompson Festival of the Arts kicked off at the Letkemann Theatre on April 5 with a showcase of local student musicians who specialize in stringed instruments and the piano.

The deadline for artists to submit entries for May’s Northern Juried Art Show in Thompson has been extended from April 1 to April 15, chairperson Leigh Hall says.