Local Entertainment

The Sault Theatre Workshop and Stage 1 is presenting a night filled with a wide variety of entertainment including songs, poems, skits and plenty of merriment.

This coming weekend, two special out-of-town bands will be bringing their diverse music to the Downbeat Lounge. On Friday, September 24th, Ottawa-based rock and roll band The Smacks ( www.thesmacks.com ) are coming through town.

Local chanteuse/songwriter, Catherine Taddo will be performing her brand of blues inspired folk at Loplops Lounge on September 25th beginning at 9:30pm.

We all have heard the saying about a home being a person's castle. This coming weekend, the Art Gallery of Algoma (AGA) will be proving that a person's home is also their art.

At the risk of being entirely self-serving (or incredibly opportunistic), I am letting sootoday.com readers know what I am doing this weekend.

Division, an exploration of personal ideal and illusion by artists Sherie McKay and Pat Gladu, is being displayed in the gallery at Loplops Lounge at 651 Queen Street East(next to the Duke of Windsor).

It certainly isn't old style country. It most definitely isn't new country. Some have called it "true cowboy folk." However you decide to label it, Rae Spoon is a truly unique voice in Canadian music.

Loplops Lounge will be presenting a Taste of Honey on Thursday, September 16th at 9:30pm. Taste of Honey is a duo made up of local musicians Brian and Lynn Tremblay.

Throughout September, the Downbeat Lounge will be presenting a combination of local and out-of-town original acts for all tastes. On September 17th and 18th, local recording artist Chris Belsito (www.chrisbelsito.

Mutant bluegrass band, The D.Rangers will be bringing their particular stylings of music to Loplops Lounge tonight, Monday, September 13th beginning at 9:00 pm.