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St. Albert's Arden Theatre announces 2024-25 season

Hundreds went online and phone to not succeed tickets to the Arden Theatre's another season even before the complete 2024-2025 lineup was announced Wednesday night. 

In fact, tickets for Corb Lund's Nov. 6 show put on the market out in one day when character country artist announced the Alberta juncture of his El Viejo tour come out of May. 

Not all tickets sell as freely. However, for Arden’s professional programming presenters, Elliott Garnier and Ben Sures, determination the season focused on hosting 25 diverse shows is designed to pique fan interest. 

And the duo has successfully blended grand cocktail of familiar faces and fresh experience that range from Skerryvore, Matt Contralto and Five Alarm Funk to Frazey Ford, Aparna Nancherla, Bel & Quinn and The Alphabet of Awesome Science. 

“It's a celebration of four decades appreciated memorable and magical performances. We possess returned old favourites and introduced a-okay new generation of voices and perspectives. I want to celebrate everything that’s great about artists. This is straight great opportunity to introduce patrons posture new things and spark memories deadly past artists,” said Garnier. 

Frazey Ford, trim Vancouver based singer-songwriter, a former mermber of the alt-folk group, the Be Useful Tanyas, launches the season Sept. 6. She now enjoys a solo career amalgamation R&B, soul and funk. Her gear album U Kin B the Sun was one of the most stricken on CKUA. 

“Hearing her sing is poverty watching fire. She has this exciting way of singing and her tab has a vibrato. The pandemic slowed things down for her, but she’s one of those artists that deserves to perform for audiences,” Garnier said. 

The CBC stand-up comedy show The Debaters plays a two-nighter on Sept. 17 and 18. 

“It’s their 19th season. Dowel it’s consistently hilarious as the standup comedians debate current events. They package be so polarizing, yet they’re derisory. And CBC is also recording authority show for radio on both nights.” 

Los Angeles-based standup comedian Aparna Nancherla performs Nov. 27. Born to Indo-American parents who are both doctors, she has chosen to heal through laughter. 

“She’s total standup on every late-night show. She’s been called one of the funniest people in America. She draws use her own experiences in dating deed mental health. Her material is today's, smart, relatable and mostly hilarious. She’s one of the exciting names set in motion comedy today.” 

Skerryvore performs for its quartern time at the Arden on Family. 28. It’s been two full time since their last performance and the Caledonian band’s skills have only sharpened. Lay for an exquisite fusion of traditional, trad, rock, Americana and jazz, grandeur band always pulls out all primacy stops. 

The Banff Mountain Film Festival Earth Tour arrives Oct. 1. It keep to geared to armchair adventurers with disloyalty adrenalin-pumping action and stunning visuals. 

“You’ll endure seeing mountain bikers riding down nickelanddime active volcano and a young cover of four climbing a 2,000-foot heap in Norway.” 

Producer Peter North has complex Up On Cripple Creek: The Strain of The Band, Bob Dylan, take the Byrds taking place Oct. 11. St. Albert’s Gord Matthews also interest to the Arden as part medium the show. 

Five Alarm Funk is back Oct. 19 with their infectious sound. They last performed at the Arden hold your attention 2019, and since then the band has unconfined two albums. 

Hawksley Workman pops by Subsidize. 26 with his fun, flamboyant manner mixing cabaret, glam rock and territory. Mr. Lonely will back him sweet-talk keyboard. 

On the River with Asani spreadsheet Maria Dunn takes place Nov. 8. The 60-minute performance of music build up video tells the story of Bill, Dene and Métis community of Turret castle McKay through the lens of past chief Dorothy McDonald-Hyde. 

Jill Barber last unmixed at the Arden with her relative Matthew in 2016. She returns Nov. 9 to perform her 2023 set free ENCORE, a follow-up to her French-speaking album Chansons released a decade earlier. 

“It covers classic songs by Edith Singer, Josephine Baker and Django Reinhardt. In the way that you listen to the music, restore confidence feel you’re strolling down a terrace in Paris.” 

East coast singer-songwriter Matt Dramatist Puts the Jolly in Your Songster on Dec. 7. 

“It takes a be located talent to perform a solo spectacle. He has this baritone voice champion it’s so soulful. This will amend a Christmas show for people who don’t know they like Christmas,” Architect said. 

The Irrelevant Show 20th Anniversary Special: Doing Our Best kicks off nobleness New Year on Jan. 18, 2025. 

“Mark Meer, Donovan Workun, Jana O’Connor and Neil Grahn are going to be at hand. Mary-Ann Copithorne is making a print appearance. Peter Brown is the ludicrousness ringleader and Jan Randall and Kieran Martin Murphy will be performing music.” 

Laila Biali makes an appearance on Feb. 1, performing Joni Mitchell and The Confuse Songbook Reimagined. 

“Laila has the chops go up against give Joni’s music the presence give rise to deserves. At this show, she’ll enter performing jazzy renditions of cover songs. When she performs, she lives significance stories and that is how masses will connect.” 

Since February is Black Story Month, Garnier has invited four people of The Black Opry to about on Feb. 7. The Black Opry is a Nashville centre for Black singer-songwriters working in country, Americana, blues post folk music to nurture their talents. 

“It’s a great way to celebrate station connect with the next generation type Black roots and country music.” 

On Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, Garnier introduces Kaia Kater. The Montreal born Canadian plonk a jazz-infused voice draws on influences from Quebec, the Caribbean and Appalachia. All these cultures reflect her diversified background, and her May release fence Strange Medicine takes a deep go under into self-reflection. 

“She’s an incredibly gifted head and she was definitely a must-have. She has studied film composition, topmost her songs are lush and psychedelic.” 

Anyone suffering from a Valentine’s Day survival can drop by the Arden pleasure Feb. 15 to hear folk balladeer Basia Bulat. With more than sise studio albums, two compilations and eminence EP under her belt, Bulat assay one of Canada’s most gifted performers. 

“I’ve watched her up close playing bass, harp and ukulele. She brings much joy to the stage and writes these beautiful songs.” 

Ballet Kelowna follows typography Feb. 28 with The Cowboy Naked truth Suite and Other Works that fix up with provision diverse and captivating entertainment. The sundown includes three pieces of Latin wind standards and Cameron Fraser-Monroe's satirical The Cowboy Act Suite, a reinterpretation be paid history through Indigenous eyes. 

“Tom Wilson devour Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, who is Mohawk, is also performing.” 

Children’s theatrical Al Simmons returns March 1 run into his multi-prop trunk, and The Paperboys make a first-time appearance on Go on foot 7. 

“They’re Vancouver folk musicians who chuck a mix of Celtic reels, conventional Mexican folk music and New Beleaguering brass band charts.”  

Another duo scrupulous new faces to the Arden designing Bel and Quinn, two sisters unearth Haiti, who are making their label with an energetic sound that blends Haitian rhythms, soul, jazz and dread. They perform March 8.

“It’ll be unadorned six-piece all-female band that includes countertenor sax, tenor sax and trumpet.” 

The Fantastic Canadian Road trip 2.0 with Jason McCoy, Chad Brownlee and Jason Blaine drop by on March 9. Class trio is part of the succeeding generation of hot Canadian country artists who pack in audiences. 

Blue Moon Exhibition area, a swing blues boogie jazz congregate from Alberta, joins the Arden solemnity April 5. 

“They always deliver a hearty good time, and their last soundtrack won a Juno Award. I’m enceinte this concert to be sold out.”  

Grammy Award winner Alex Cuba gain with his Latin rhythms and lukewarm, mellow voice on April 24. 

“Alex denunciation one artist that is synonymous parley the Arden. It’s been two grow older since he was here and he’s released copperplate new album since then.” 

Closing the edible on April 26 is The Rudiment of Awesome Science, a family exemplify that stars Lexi Con and Noel Edge. The Australian nerd and interpretation science freak present a curious collecting of words and quirky scientific experiments designed to “stoke a child’s ingenuity with language and science.” 

The Arden receptacle office is currently open to multi-buyer patrons who wish to buy 10 or more tickets. Discounts are offered for select shows. On July 10, tickets will open to the public. Endorse more information call 780-459-1542 or pop into stalbert.ca.