Local Entertainment

Here's a quick look at the weekend forecast for your entertainment pleasure. As you can see, the clouds are moving in. We are pleased to say that it will be raining entertainment and arts events for the next four days.

If the picture to our left doesn't seem to say to much about the performer we are writing about below, please forgive us. It was the only image we could find to represent recording artist Shuyler Jansen.

Although he is currently living in the Sault Ste. Marie writing songs for his upcoming solo CD (due out next summer), Mark Kuntsi is still keeping a connection with his audience in a live forum.

The Downbeat Lounge will be presenting two early week concerts featuring up-and-comers the Wheatmonkeys and Quinzy. Quinzy is a band that plays tightly constructed and melodic pop music.

Here's a quick overview of what the weekend has in store as far as live entertainment and arts-related events. Whether you go out in a group or go it alone (like this little fella to our left), there is a little something for everyone.

Atouk is an outcast living thousands of years ago in the age of cavemen. He is exiled from the tribe of Tonda. He yearns for Lana, a female in Tonda's tribe, but Tonda seems to have her for himself..... Wait a minute...

Ok, not really, but Sault Theatre Workshop is presenting the classic Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" on December 8th-11th, 2004 starting at each night at 8:00 pm.

Eva Perón was a powerhouse of a political figure. After her death and the many years of public silence that followed, her name is finally imbedded on the public consciousness.

Algoma Festival Choir, under the direction of Stephen Mallinger, is pleased to present its annual Christmas concert, "A Christmas Night" at the Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario on Saturday, December 4, 2004 at 8:00 pm.

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