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B.C.-based boogie-woogie jazz pianist and singer Kenny Blues Boss Wayne headlines Edmonton Blues Society’s one-day blues buffet hitting the stage at 10 p.m. Saturday, with wide-reaching Ottawa guitar talent JW-Jones before him on the bill.
Details: 4:30 p.m. at St. Basil’s Cultural Centre (10819 71 Ave.), $60/non-members at edmontonbluessociety.net, $70/door
[Blank]: Alice Birch’s 2019 play is a Caryl Churchill-style choose-your-own-adventure where directors pick what’s portrayed from 100 scenes — all related in that they deal with what happens to families when women go through the prison-industrial complex.
Director Jan Selman helps Studio Theatre celebrate its 75th season with this innovative work, raw and gritty with an eye on social activism.
For its upcoming Tuesday night show, representatives from iHuman Youth Society, Youth Restorative Action Project and Elizabeth Fry Society will be on hand for a conversation afterwards if you want to further contextualize this locally.
Details
: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 10-15; 2:30 p.m. Feb. 13, 15 at Timms Centre for the Arts (112 Street and 87 Avenue), $28/adult at
Schumann Quartett: One more big anniversary, the Edmonton Chamber Music Society has hit 70, bringing in this string quartet all the way from Germany to kick off a Canadian tour.
Three brothers — Mark, Erik and Ken Schumann — along with violist Veit Hertenstein will be playing Haydn, Schubert and Leó Weiner.
Should be a lovely concert all around — strings indeed attached in the best of ways.