Arts & Entertainment

PHOTOS: LHS students perform Hamilton

FALL RIVER: All the hard work over the past few months by students at Lockview High came to life as they performed Hamilton: An American Musical at the school on May 29. The sung-and-rapped through...

Final concert of the year

FALL RIVER: Students in the Lakes & Locks String performance group put on their year-end concert for the 2018-2019 school year on June 13 at Ash Lee Jefferson School in Fall...

Annual Waverley craft sale attracts more than 1,100 people

WAVERLEY: There were many artisans and crafters on hand selling their goodies at the NS Arts and Craft sale, which had more than 1,100 people attend over its two days on...

Joyful Sounds selected for Kindermusik pilot project

FALL RIVER: Joyful Sounds in Fall River is one of three Kindermusik studios in North America selected to be part of a new pilot project aimed at Spanish; mandarin; and bilingual music. The studio in...

Waverley’s Hannigan coming home to N.S. this summer

LUNENBURG: Waverley’s Barb Hannigan is coming home this summer for a performance on the South Shore. In a post last month, Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance (LAMP) officially announced that Hanningan, a N.S.-born soprano and...

Hannigan nominated for prestigious award

WAVERLEY: A musician from Waverley has earned a prestigious award nomination. Barbara Hannigan was recently announced as a nominee for the 2019 Oskar Morawetz Award for Excellence in Music Performance. The Oskar Morawetz Award for Excellence...
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ABBA cover band coming to Waverley

WAVERLEY: The sounds of ABBA will be emanating from the Waverley Legion on Sept. 28. Dancing Queen, Halifax’s premier ABBA cover band, is bringing their music to the Legion as part of a Boy Scout...

MacKenzie pens “Wolves Don’t Knock”

WINDSOR JUNCTION: Cathy MacKenzie can check writing a novel off her bucket list. The author, who lives in Fall River Village near Windsor Junction, has just penned and published her first-ever novel, “Wolves Don’t Knock.” MacKenzie...

LHS students take their love of music to NSYWE

FALL RIVER: Seven Lockview High band students are thrilled to be doing something they love alongside peers from Cape Breton to Yarmouth as members of the Nova Scotia Youth Wind Ensemble (NSYWE). Maddi Tufts of...

Light the Night fundraiser a hit

FALL RIVER: The community showed they are behind those affected by leukemia and lymphoma and involved with the Light the Night walk in droves on Oct. 13. At the Turtleback Tap & Grill on Highway...
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