There are festivals and then some this week, which hopefully won’t get rained out.
The first big festival is a three-day long festival opening the newly renovated Festival square downtown outside of Telegraph Taphouse.

The ceremony begins at 11 a.m. with the grand ceremony, followed by Blackfoot drumming featuring Big Sorrell Horse. There will be an array of entertainment including Katie Bruised Head and White Buffalo singers, Celtic Routes, the conservatory, Patrick Bad Eagle and the Northstone drum group, highland dancing, a preview of Shakespeare in the park’s summer production of Hamlet and Theatre Outré.
The festival continues the next day with the downtown farmer’s market with the Tell it Like it Is. Poets, Stephanie Brave Rock, Rudy Strangling Wolf, the Little Lethbridge Opera Co plus classical guitarist Dale Ketcheson, the Chinook High Rock band and the New Testaments winding hip the day at 8 p.m.
Festival square family fun continues on Friday at 1 p.m. with Heros and Princesses, JJ First Charger, Sheldon Day Chief and Dancers, Indigidrip,, Lethbridge Musical Theatre’s/Playgoers of Lethbridge One Act Play Priscilla Pringle’s Predicament and Makiisma at 7 p.m.
If you missed Kirbfest on the weekend, a lot of familiar faces from it return for Friday on Festival Square including the band Formerly Known as Karen Lewis and Pam, a preview of Hootenanny, Willy Big Bull and John Wort Hannam.
The Rotary Dragon Boat Festival begins on Friday, June 24 at Henderson Lake park at 5 p.m. with Dusty Dee Litchfield, followed by opening ceremonies, the Chinook high School band, Lethbridge Community Taiko Association. Local classic rock favourites the Chevelles rock the stage at 8 :15 p.m. ad finish off the night at 10 p.m.
The Rotary Dragon boat Festival continues on Saturday, June 25 with Standard Time jazz followed by the Rose ceremony at noon, followed by bluesman Eric Braun, Expressions Dance Studio, classic rock band Horizon, The Troyanda Ukrainian Dance Club, DanAllie, Global Drums, Coda Blues, Rebel Angels playing their favourites from the ’50s, a line dance lesson and demo and country band Coyote Junction closing off the main stager at 9:30 p.m.
Folk duo Reid and Writes open up the Rotary Dragon boat Festival at 11 a.m., June 26 followed by the Lethbridge Highland Dancing association, local Celtic band Celtic Routes, the country rockers Mark Hall band, classic rockers Old School and country rock band Lawless Murphy finishing off the festival at 4:30 p.m.
It is Pride week, so there are quite a few activities celebrating Pride beginning with Queer Improv at Good Times, on Tuesday, June 21 at 7:30 p.m. Erica Barr, Mark Ogle, Katie Fellger, Brent Clark and Nicola Elson will be performing all your favourite improv games. Admission is $15.
Slice hosts a unique event, Friday, June 24 with Fetish Friday, which is a fundraiser for OUTreach.. Admission is a minimum $15 donation. Click on L.A. Beat’s listing for details.
The 14th annual Pride in the Park is at Galt Gardens on Saturday, June 25 with a variety of performers ranging from drag to rap to country. Some highlights include Shaela Miller, Calgary musicians the Corey Hotline and Katie Winds and rappers Thug Shells. There will be free faceprinting and the Hibikaya drummers as well.