Mountain Guide

Last December, four friends came together in Banff to jam and play shows. Seven months later, they’ve emerged as Elk Run Riot, the town’s new indie darlings.

Canada and the U.S. have often had a testy relationship, with the U.S. pushing the boundaries of that relationship on more than one occasion.

The ninth annual Blues Caravan is rumbling across Canada. A product of German record label Ruf Records, the Blues Caravan takes three international blues artists and tours them together around the world.

When drama students at Canmore Collegiate High School were given free rein to create their own play this semester, they went with a pop culture theme. The class of nine students, ranging from Grades 10 to 12, is taught by Jodi Anderson.

A regular favourite of the Bow Valley, Smokekiller – moniker of John Antoniuk – returns Sunday (May 26) for a show at the Elk & Oarsman in Banff. Antoniuk spoke with the Outlook while on the road somewhere between Thunder Bay, Ont. and Winnipeg.

If you’ve been waiting for just the right combination of classical music and pop to come along, you’re in luck. Plumes, a Montreal five-piece, plays Wild Flour Bakery in Banff, May 31 at 7:30 p.m.

On Thursday (May 16), The Banff Centre finally unveiled the lineup for its Summer Arts Festival, which spans June, July and August.

The photographs of Banff’s most famous photographer, Byron Harmon, are now online and easily accessible.

A month-long closure for renovations made Wild Bill’s Legendary Saloon a quiet place.

At the time, Sandy Walker’s trip to climb Monte San Lorenzo in Chile was the most remote place she’d ever travelled to.