If you are looking for something to do for Valentine’s Day this week, take your loved one to a plethora of local shows happening this week or just take yourself  if you’re the one you love.
 There are a couple of excellent plays happening this week.
 Playgoers of Lethbridge production of Marc Camoletti’s French Farce  Boeing Boeing happens at the Yates Theatre, Feb. 10-13. It is the hilarious story of Bernard a French bachelor who is juggling three fiancees who are air hostesses in the1960s. Things get complicated as new Boeing jets  bring the three women ever closer to finding out about each other.
 The show is 8 p.m. each night.

 The University of Lethbridge also has a play happening. Bertolt Brecht’s “The Caucasian Chalk Circle,”  which began last weekend, runs at University Theatre, David Spinks Theatre and even in the lobby all this week until Feb. 13.
There is a plethora of great music happening at the Enmax Centre this week as well. Country and pop lovers won’t want to miss singer songwriter / crooner Johnny Reid who visits the Enmax Centre, Feb. 13 with special guests Natalie MacMaster, JJ Shiplett and Aaron Goodvin. Tickets are $53.75-$85.75.

The next night, get ready to bang your head with hard rock band Disturbed plus St. Asonia and Age of Days, who play Feb. 14. Tickets cost $40-$60.
 There is a special  Valentines dinner, Feb. 13 at the Bill Kergan Centre if you love Latin music and Latin food. The Ecuadoran Social Club hosts the dinner which will feature entertainers Fernando Espindola and m Columbia Linda. Tickets are $25.

For something that rocks, CKXU has their annual CKXU Loves You Valentines Day party featuring a variety of local bands playing your favourite ’50s hits. Performers include Shaela Miller, the Mormon Girls, Backseat Bingo, St. Valentines Day Creep and A Really Good Band. Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 on the day of the show.

 

 And that’s just the weekend.
 The party lasts all week.
 If you like catchy pop music, Yukon Blonde visit  Average Joes, Feb. 11 with Minneapolis pop trio On an On. Yukon Blonde is a Kelowna born, Vancouver based indie band who have a string  of hit singles including Saturday Night and  “I Wanna Be Your Man.”

They are touring in support of their new CD “ On Blonde.” Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door if there are any left. The show begins at 8 p.m.
 If your tastes lean more towards alt country, Lethbridge‘s favourite Hamilton/ Toronto roots trio Elliott Brood make a long awaited return to Lethbridge to play Studio 54, Feb. 12. with local acts the Dearly Departed and Ryland Moranz. They were nominated for a Juno award for their most recent CD “Work and Love”
Tickets are $25 in advance. Doors open at 8 p.m.

As always there are lots of excellent local shows sprinkled throughout the week. Mwansa Mwansa  and her band will play beautiful pop/ soul and R and B music at Casino Lethbridge this weekend. Dale Ketcheson plays classical music at the Mocha Cabana for Valentines Day.

The first Lethbridge Folk Club open mic of the year is this week as well. Open mics are now at CASA at 7:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Friday of the month.
If you like 50s and 60s music, Four By Four will be playing your favourite hits of the era. Four By Four are a tribute act who play the music of Frankie Vallie, the Beatles, Bee Gees and much more.  They play the Yates Theatre, Feb. 15 at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $62.50