Edmonton  bilingual folk and pop musician Paul Cournoyer entertained almost 100 people at Cité Des Prairies, April 29 where Lethbridge artist Anne Dubord was premiering some of her latest works.
 Dubord was live painting two brand new works on stage during Cournoyer’s set.

 Cournoyer played addictive set up up tempo rock which sounded like Joel Plaskett singing in French. He played bass as his guitarist, keyboardist and drummer played ambient, Pink Floydish layers of music.

 He played much of his new CD and an older song which he had entered in a songwriting contest.

Montreal born, Lethbridge based artist Anne Dubord opens a one day exhibition of her works, April 29 at La Cité Des Prairies (2104 6 Avenue S).
Dubord has been creating art for the past 15 years and  works as a graphic designer by day.

“ I work in acrylic paint. I feature a lot of faces. Mostly women with big hair,” Dubord said.
“ I like working with bright colours,” she continued, adding her work has improved over the years.

 Her exhibition features 15 new works mostly completed over the past year and a couple older works.

There wasn’t any space to be had at the Owl Acoustic Lounge for the official opening of the Space Invaders art show, April 10.

 While the walls were adorned with numerous video game inspired artwork from 40 different artists, the room was alive with the sound of soul and some outstanding guitar playing courtesy of Fei Fei Du and Mwansa Mwansa’s band.

 The talented young prodigy Fei Fei Du opened up the evening with a gorgeous set of solo acoustic guitar. He channelled the spirit of virtuosos like Chet Atkins, playing simultaneous fingerpicked basslines and melodies as well as tapping out percussion on the side of his guitar.

He had most of the room watching his performance intently. Among the highlights was his medley of Beatles hits including  “Here Comes the Sun,” “ Day Tripper” and many others. He covered the bass as well as vocal melodies of those songs and  simultaneously played two different Beatles songs for part of the set.

 I missed the first set from Mwansa Mwansa and her band including bassist Paul Holden, drummer Brad Brouwer, guitarist James Oldenburg and Aaron Collier playing keyboards.

I caught part of their second set during which they tackled a couple new of songs including a cover of Jamiroquai’s ’90s hit “Virtual Insanity.”
 The band was tight as usual and Mwansa Mwansa showed off her powerful pipes, though she was a little off at the beginning of the set.