Local Entertainment

The Vancouver Island Symphony will be playing on the number ‘25’ with a concert at the Sid Williams Theatre on Saturday, Feb. 15, featuring elegant classical symphonies, as they celebrate 25 years of making beautiful music. The concert, entitled Celebrate 25 , starts at 2 p.m. and is one of nine concerts to mark this happy musical milestone.

Get ready for another wild evening of music and laughter at the Big Yellow Merville Hall, with the Juno-nominated Andrew Collins Trio.

On Feb. 8, 7 p.m., the Fanny Bay Hall sees the return of the Lafayette String Quartet.

Concert Feb. 28 at the Little Red Church

On Thursday, Feb. 6, at the Avalanche Bar and Grill, the Georgia Straight Jazz Society will be welcoming back the Larry Ayre Trio. This year, Ayre will be presenting something new as he has invited Chad Pabianek to join him on the Avalanche stage. The interplay of these two accomplished guitarists achieves an exciting blend of rhythm and melody that brings fresh energy to the jazz repertoire. They will be solidly supported by John Hyde on acoustic bass.

Have A Heart musical theatre celebrates 10 years of fundraising

World Community Film Festival continues through Saturday at downtown venues

Peter Walker performs Beethoven and Romantic Composers

He worked with fiddler April Verch in Nashville on classic country record

Courtenay Little Theatre’s spring production of Doubt, a Parable , directed by Kymme Patrick, is putting out a special request for a female actor to portray the mother of a 12-year-old African American boy in the Bronx, New York in 1964.