WHAT’S ON IN REGINA, FEB. 27-MARCH 4
The Mill Street Blues Band, Dan Silljer Band, Call Me Mildy, School of Rock, and Stillhouse Poets are kicking off the first official night of the Mid-winter Blues Festival. They perform at The Exchange on Thursday, Feb. 27, 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 through the Casino Regina box office.
The Now and Always of It is an art exhibition by Nathan White, opening Thursday, Feb. 27, 7 p.m. at the Creative City Centre. The pieces include collage, screen printing, photography and more, representing White’s “personal exploration into the relationship between sexuality and self and how the inherent darkness in all of us inform our social outlook and personal relationships.”
Debra Digiovanni, Paul Myrehaug, Pete Zedlacher and Dan Quinn are performing during the Snowed In Comedy Tour on Friday, Feb. 28, 7 p.m. at the Regina Performing Arts Centre. Find tickets ($20) through reginapac.com.
Ryan Mcmahon performs standup comedy during Red Man Laughing at First Nations University on Friday, Feb. 28, 7 p.m. This is part of the Sakewewak Annual Storytellers Festival.
Blues-rock band The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer, roots/ horror/rockabilly band Eve
Hell and The Razors, and Sugar Brown play a Mid-winter Blues Festival show on Friday, Feb. 28, 7:30 p.m. at the Royal Sask. Museum theatre. Tickets are $40 through the Casino Regina box office.
The Organized Crime Duo is a classical concert maybe unlike any other. Performers Rachel Mahon and Sarah Svendsen play the organ while dancing, doing gymnastics and wearing four-inch heels. They’ll perform Friday, Feb. 28, 7:30 p.m. at the Knox-metropolitan Church. Tickets are $25 at the door for adults, $10 for students.
Imogen Rennie performs during a Regina Word Up poetry event at the Creative City Centre on Friday, Feb. 28, 8 p.m. Admission is $10, or pay what you can.
The Regina Symphony Orchestra has a Sessions concert at The Artesian on Friday, Feb. 28,
8 p.m. For $10, you can hear the RSO perform classical and contemporary music in a casual setting. Get tickets at reginasymphony.com.
Robin Mang, Submit, Limbo and Cakebaby are Djing at a summer-themed party at The Cure on Friday, Feb. 28, 9 p.m.
Grim, Satisfaction Overload, and Bones to Dust are playing rock and metal music at Cloud 9 Live on Friday, Feb. 28, 10 p.m.
Drake Mark is playing at O’hanlon’s on Friday, Feb. 28, 11 p.m.
On Saturday afternoon, the Regina Mid-winter Blues Festival has three free music showcases. At Bushwakker, starting at 1:30 p.m. The Treefellers and Billy Hughes & the Instigators are delivering a special tribute to the Plains Hotel’s famous Saturday jams. At Chop Steakhouse, starting at 1:30 p.m., Billy and Jeff, Sufficient Condition, and Az Paris perform. At the Lancaster Taphouse, starting at 1:30 p.m., Matt Meehan, School of Rock, and Alley 14 perform.
Kidz Bop World Tour stops at the Conexus Arts Centre on Saturday, Feb. 29, 6 p.m. Tickets start at $37.50. Find them at conexusartscentre.ca.
The Pile of Bones Brass Band is back for a Mardi Gras concert at the German Club on Saturday, Feb. 29, 7 p.m. Tickets are $15.
Saturday marks your last chance to attend Mamawi-acimowak: They Tell Stories Together, an art exhibition featuring Keith Bird, Catherine Blackburn, Sherry Farrell Racette, Larissa Kitchemonia, Jamie Reynolds, and Bill Stevenson. The closing reception is Saturday, Feb. 29, 7 p.m. at the Lobby Gallery (inside the Regina Performing Arts Centre).
U.K. blues band Savoy Brown got its start in 1965. Shemekia Copeland is “incandescent” (in the words of Carlos Santana) as she plays Americana roots and soul music. Jack Semple is a local legend on guitar. They all perform Saturday, Feb. 29,
7:30 p.m. at the Casino Regina Show Lounge, in the final concert of this year’s Regina Mid-winter Blues Festival. Tickets are $65 through the Casino Regina box office.
The Regina Symphony Orchestra presents a free concert at the Regina Public Library (Central branch) on Sunday, March 1, 2 p.m.
Sea Moya performs at T+A Vinyl on Sunday, March 1, 8 p.m. “Imagine there was a remote place in the ‘70s where early Electronic music, Afro-beat and Psychedelic Krautrock would come together … let it sit and grow there for another decade and you get the Sea Moya vibe. Or at least a tiny idea of it.” Cover is $10.
The Alley Dawgs play classic country covers at the Fat Badger every Tuesday, 9:30 p.m.
Nick Faye & The Deputies (nostalgic rock), Suncliffs (indie/ folk), and Zann Foth (indie pop-rock) play a concert at The Artesian on Wednesday, March 4,
8 p.m. Cover is $10.
The Globe Theatre’s new mainstage production begins Wednesday, March 4, 7:30 p.m. I Call Myself Princess is a play by Jani Lauzon, featuring opera singer Marion Newman. “When William, a modern-day Métis music student is handed the
1918 real-life opera Shanewis: The Robin Woman about Creek/ Cherokee Mezzo Soprano Tsianina Redfeather, he learns more than just an aria as he begins to unravel the complex circumstances faced by Indigenous performers past and present. Seen and unseen worlds collide as Tsianina appears to William, the two learning from each other as he makes a decision about his future as an artist.” For tickets and more information, visit globetheatrelive.com.
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