FestivalSeeker Stories

Porkapalooza is a BBQ competition with tonnes of entertainment! Enjoy a food festival that explores the art and culture of BBQ. 

Barbecue and rock ‘n’ roll (and for that matter, country music) have always seemed to go hand in hand, which is the key to the success of the Porkapalooza Concert of Hope series.

When the Magnificent River Rats Festival first kicked off in Athabasca in 1996, a city councillor came up to Andy Woudstra (one of the founding members of the festival committee) and told him it wa

When Ron Pilger purchased a house in Camrose, he had no idea he was also getting a new hobby.

Flames lick the rib tails as they fall onto the grill, sizzling. The coleslaw isn’t going to prep itself, so while the meat sears I dive in.

Walk down 50th Street in Camrose and you’ll notice two things: the city has a lot of gutsy women and they’re well dressed.

Jazz music usually evokes images of smoky nightclubs on big city streets rather than sunny skies and prairie hospitality, but great things often things happen in unlikely places.

Joel Klinger sights down the length of the new skateboard deck he’s just finishing, freshly sanded and embossed. “There’s musical resonance in everything,” he says. “It’s called tap tone.

For me, learning the history of Prince George started with putting a canoe in the water.

Yuichi Takasaka has perfected the art of photographing the magical Northern Lights. He uses an arsenal of everyday household items and, of course, his beloved digital cameras.

Downtown Summerfest is the time to belly up for a street-style grub crawl and sample the areas best restaurants.

Usually people enter Ms. Lorea’s College of Esthetics and Nail Technology to look and feel beautiful, but I was attending that day to look my absolute worst.

Medicine Hat, Alberta is known for a lot of things — a big reserve of natural gas, the sunniest skies in Canada, a historic ceramics industry — but did you know it’s also a destination for coffee l

Home to some of the best biking in Canada, the South Okanagan is a standout destination, especially in May when the weather is perfect, the 50-plus wineries in the area are open and the summer crow

Whistler’s epic spring closer, the World Ski & Snowboard Festival celebrates its 21st year as one of the best spring festivals on the planet from April 8-17, 2016.