Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour will stop in Cobourg on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @ 7:00 p.m.  An exciting evening of adventure films that includes biking, climbing, skiing, environmental concerns and so much more.  Included in the screening in Cobourg is a local connection.  Former La Jeunesse Youth Orchestra member, film maker Caleb Robert's short, The Smoke that Thunders will also play during the Cobourg Festival screening.  Tickets are $26 plus service fees and can be purchased here: https://tickets.cobourg.ca/TheatreManager/1/online?performance=3696

The Kingston Baroque Consort presents “Viva Vivaldi!” on Friday 17 January, 5:15pm, at St. James Church (10 Union St, Kingston), featuring vivacious music for strings and winds by Antonio Vivaldi, with special guest artist Bassist Shanti Nachtergaele from Montreal. The program will include Vivaldi’s Concerto in B minor (RV580) for 4 violins, cello, strings, and continuo.

Tickets cost $25 (Adults), $10 (Students), and free for under 17, and are available at Novel Idea (156 Princess St) or by emailing/calling legerek@queensu.ca, 613-217-5099.  Visit  Kingstonbaroqueconsort.ca.

Shanti Nachtergaele specializes in historically informed performances of music from the 16th through 19th centuries and has performed with ensembles such as the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra (Toronto), American Bach Soloists (San Francisco), Accordes! (Oxford), and Les Méandres (Montreal). She holds a BMus in performance from Shenandoah Conservatory, an MMus in early music from the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague, an MA in music theory and history from Pennsylvania State University, and a PhD from McGill University.

The Kingston Baroque Consort was founded in 2021 as an orchestra devoted to historically informed practice of music from the Baroque era. Founded by Katie Legere, Jeff Hamacher, Julia McFarlane, and Michael Capon, the KBC is a collective of professional musicians drawn from the Kingston Symphony Orchestra and the wider community.