Local Entertainment

It's difficult to say exactly what stole the show during last night's Dancing With the Sault Stars at the Kiwanis Community Theatre Centre. Possibly the fact that local dancer Jen Mote was there.

The nominees for the 2009 East Coast Music Awards (ECMA) were announced earlier this week. The ECMA, Festival and Conference is scheduled to take place at the Pepsi Centre in Corner Brook, NL from February 26 to March 1, 2009.

Canadian Country Music Award winners Doc Walker from Portage La Prairie, Manitoba will be the OLG concert headliners at the 2009 Ontario Winter Carnival Bon Soo, organizers announced last night.

A new show has just been added to the list of entertainers appearing in the Dream Makers Theatre at Sault Michigan's Kewadin Casino. Skid Row will perform on Thursday, March 5, 2008 at 7 p.m. with special open act, Firehouse. Tickets are $33.

Local bands, including Fury, Sense of Truth, Aftersight, the Scary Uncles and Garden of Bedlam, are joining forces to raise money for Sick Kids Hospital.

NEWS RELEASE THE RANKIN FAMILY ************************* SAULT STE. MARIE, ON) - (4 December 2008) – The Rankin Family will return to the concert stage in 2009, following the overwhelming success of their 2007 Reunion Tour.

Who: The Barra MacNeils What: Canadian Celtic Where: Kiwanis Community Theatre Centre When: Friday, December 5, 2008 @ 8 p.m.

The Sault Theatre Workshop's production of Having Hope at Home , originally scheduled to open this coming weekend, has been postponed until next season.

The central theme is a common one. Good versus evil. But the mythical tale presented at the Essar Centre Thursday evening during Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance was far from simple.

SooToday.com received notification today that the Sault Theatre Workshop's presentation of Having Hope at Home has been postponed. The new performance dates will be posted once they have been determined.