Three to see Saturday in Edmonton: Joe Nolan, climate art and cabaret
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Joe Nolan: Signed with a hot new agent and a Swedish record label, as well as that new Maple Blues Award in 2020, the inertia seemed very good for Nolan when the pandemic brought the planet’s feet out. But Nolan was one of those who took the time to put in the hard work, which culminated in his 11-song album Scrapper in 2021. « It’s almost like I have no choice, » says Nolan. « I don’t think I will ever stop or retire. It’s my life, it’s hard to explain, but it’s something I have to do. Come and find out at the brand new and exciting Felice Café where great musical things are destined to happen, from now on.
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Details: 8 p.m. at Felice Café (10930 84 St.), no cover
Visions for the Future: Edmonton’s Climate Art Project: Local activist group Edmonton Youth for Climate presents a special exhibition of drawings, paintings, poems and songs expressing a wide variety of sentiments on climate change concerns and the future of our green city. Members of Edmonton City Council will be present at the opening, and the Jams Quartet will also perform after an opening speech at 1 p.m.
Details: 12:30 p.m. – 2 p.m. at Foundry on Whyte (10426 82 Ave.), toll-free
Cabaret (1972): The masterpiece of Bob Fosse’s adaptation of the Broadway musical in Berlin in 1931. As Nazism rises in Germany, the flamboyant American Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) sings in a decadent nightclub and falls in love with a British language teacher (Michael York) – with whom she shares a homosexual German baron. The film will be accompanied upstream by a live drag performance by HOMO-CIDAL.
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