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Routes and Blues is a new outreach program of the popular Roots and Blues Festival that runs every year.

Artist David Cheung will be at the Revelstoke Museum & Archives next week to talk about his interactive art project Rocky Railway High, which pays tribute to the thousands of Chinese labourers that helped build the Canadian Pacific Railway through British Columbia.

There are few more in touch with the booms and busts of the economy than loggers. Local forest operations slowed dramatically following the U.S. housing collapse a few years back. At the same time, Revelstoke’s B.C. Interior Forestry Museum was dealt a similar blow when provincial gaming funding drastically impacted their operating budget.

Here's the schedule for the 2011 Timber Day LITE this Saturday, July 9.

Highlights of the Grizzly Plaza Summer Street Festival for the coming week.

In what is quickly becoming a summer tradition in Revelstoke, the third annual Art Walk makes it debut on Canada Day.

The Revelstoke Music Festival kicked off Friday night with performances from a half-dozen bands. The festival keeps going Saturday with a battle of the bands in the afternoon and music continuing into the night. Shane Philips headlines.

These are crazy times for the Sheepdogs. The Saskatoon rock band has gone from relative obscurity to finalists in a contest to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.

When Redeye Empire hits the stage Friday night at the Revelstoke Music Festival they’ll be playing to a crowd they’ve already won over numerous times in town.

The Revelstoke Music Festival returns this weekend, with 11 bands performing over the course of two nights as well as a battle-of-the-bands competition Saturday afternoon.