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In light of a cancellation, uncertainty and change of ownership, organizers of Zombie Survivor are powering ahead with just over a week left to go until the July 25 event. “We always expected it wouldn’t be as big as last year.

Cochrane is getting its time on the comedy stage. On July 24, the Spray Lake Sawmills Family Sports Centre will play host to the town’s first ever Comedy Festival.

Ben Sures is a folk, roots and blues singer-songwriter and guitar player who’s played all over Canada. He’s released seven albums, all to critical claim, and his 2011 album Gone to Bolivia was CKUA radio station’s most played record.

Winners of the Emerging Artist Award at the 2014 Edmonton Folk Music Festival, Edmonton-based husband and wife duo Peter Stone and Denise MacKay will be playing at Legacy Guitar and Coffee House for the second time July 10.

Residing in the Canadian Rockies, Lori Reid is a singer-songwriter who uses her heartfelt, evocative lyrics and music drawn from her experiences and surroundings to create a kinship with the listener.

It seems Ridley Bent has an affinity for the lost and the damned in his latest album Wildcard. People who don’t get a break, or get one and screw it up to the point of no return.

He’s a little bit folk, a little bit country and of course, a little bit cowboy. That’s how Gary Fjellgaard describes his sound, a music style he called ‘western roots.

A holy folk rock trinity has emerged from the wilds of British Columbia and that trinity is The Lion, The Bear, The Fox. They will be returning to the Legacy Guitar and Coffee House May 29 and be sure they won’t disappoint.

Back in March 2008, Conrad Walz played a solo set at ‘The Alberta Sessions: Songwriter Series’ in Calgary.

For Millennials, Prairie Oyster probably doesn’t ring any bells. But for Generation Xers, songs like “Such a Lonely One” and “Don’t Cry Little Angel” just might.