Casa celebrates five years with party in the square and local musicians

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 It’s hard to believe that downtown arts centre Casa has been here for five years, so they celebrated their anniversary with a party in the square with burgers , cake and local music on a sweltering Saturday afternoon, May 12. Inside Casa, local artist  Aaron Hagan’s paintings of the construction of the building were on display. Outside,  I missed performances by Taylor Ackerman and Dave McCann, both of whom I was looking forward to seeing, but caught Bryan Bradfield.

 Floyd Sillito playing  Casa’s fifth anniversary celebration, May 12. photo by Richard Amery
 Bradfield is a regular fixture of the  Lethbridge Folk Club open mics and events. This time, dobro in hand, he was all about music history as played a laid back set of stories and old blues and folk classics. He played a beautiful versions of Chet Atkins’ “Sleepwalk’ and several other songs not usually played on the instrument, but also some old Les Paul instrumentals.


Bryan Bradfield playing Casa’s fifth anniversary celebration, May 12. photo by Richard AmeryI caught a show by of local country musician and his bassist, who I hadn’t seen for a while.

The 93-year-old musician has been keeping traditional country music alive for many years.

He delivered a crash course in classic country history. he played a medley of “Santa Fe Trail” and “Navaho Trail,” plus  Roy Orbison’s “Blue Bayou” as well as  a couple of Don Williams songs.

— by Richard Amery, L.A. Beat Editor

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