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Jazz festival scales up with accent on youth

Jazz festival scales up with accent on youth

Accordion Fest features musicians from the qathet region. Henry Slama from Burnaby will play Powell River Academy of Music and Forest Bistro in May.

Guitarist from Petunia and the Vipers will play at the third annual Accordion Fest with concerts at Powell River Academy of Music in May.

Also, Gibsons & District Public Library is celebrating the Lunar New Year on Feb. 10

Local fairs and festivals converged during Aug. 17 to 20, marking an apex weekend in the Sunshine Coast’s cultural calendar. As book aficionados gathered at the 41st annual Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts, campers and rockers congregated in Wilson Creek for the 8th annual Rogue Fest.

The second-annual Art and Words Festival launches this weekend, Creek Daze is Sunday and Sechelt and Gibsons music series continue

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Variety of performed musical styles to be featured at 2023 Accordion Fest during concerts with special guests, workshops and classes.

Also, David King's Garage Sale opens, GPAG will feature In This Together: Sunshine Coast Pride Exhibition in June, and Sir Mark Rylance will bring the Sunshine Coast Film Society’s spring season to a close with his appearance in Phantom of the Open.