Mountain Guide

“We have quite a lot of birds in the show. It is bound to happen. We live in a natural, beautiful spot and the wildlife thing keeps cropping up.”

Nightrise, a collaborative, immersive digital art experience between Pursuit, Montreal-based Moment Factory and the Îyârhe Nakoda, is back at the Banff Gondola to highlight the First Nation's language and culture through sight and sound, beginning with an evening ride up the mountain.

In collaboration with Parks Canada, the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies is seeking up to three Indigenous artists to create temporary murals on eight-by-eight foot wooden boxes to be displayed prominently on the grounds of the Cave and Basin, and tucked away in the winter.

“It is all volunteers going out and that is gratifying because with our information, we can see how many birds we get compared to previous years and what factors contributed to that.”

“We always enjoyed Canmore and the crowd is fantastic. It is a really smart crowd, a bit older crowd, and it is a great tester for us.”

For the first time ever, a tie for top prize happened at Banff’s battle of the bands.

“Community art has become more expensive to deliver, more challenging to deliver and the frequency of what I call three-dimensional art has become more infrequent,” said Darren Enns, the director of planning and development for the Town of Banff.

“It’s kind of a commercial version of what you would hear from New Orleans brass bands, but it’s almost sort of taking on a life of its own. It’s many genres fused with different popular styles of music from around the world.”

“The Bow Valley Music Festival has been providing private music students and music teachers and opportunity to gather and be adjudicated in a non-competitive setting. It inspires students to develop a lifelong skill.”

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