All of Lethbridge’s summer festivals and attractions begin this week. Most of them at Casa.
The Lethbridge Jazz and Blues festival bring Grammy award winning drummer Larnell Lewis and Joy Lapps to the Sterndale Bennett Theatre, Monday, July 4.
Tickets ate $43 and $45. The show begins at 8 p.m.
Classical music fans will be overjoyed that The Centric music Festival returns to Lethbridge this week. The First concert is at Casa featuring violinist Alina Khvatova and pianist Cheryl Emery-Karapita paying tribute to the tragedy in Ukraine by performing a distinctive program of Ukrainian, Polish, and Russian music, featuring Lyudkevych, Latoshinsky, and Wieniawski, and Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, and Tchaikovsky.
The second Centric concert is at Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden, Wednesday, June 6,. Music in the Garden features the 2022 Centric music fest String quartet including violinists Laurie Syer, Eric Auerbach, viola player Gabe Kastelic and cellist Julie Amundsen. That concert begins at 7:30 p.m.

The third concert is in Indian Battle Park at 7:30 Friday, July 8. Music in Nature also features the 2022 Centric music Fest String Quartet. Both performances feature will be performing Phillip Glass’s String quartet No. 2 “Company” and Alexander Borodin excerpts from String Quartet No. 2.
The Centric Festival wraps up with the Rising Stars concert at Casa on Saturday, June 9 at 7:30 p.m. It features the inaugural winner of the 2022 Centric MusicFest/Primo Music Association scholarship: violinist Alayna McNeil, as recommended by adjudicators and the scholarship committee of the Lethbridge and District Speech Arts Festival. She will be performing some of her winning repertoire, including works by Prokofiev, Bach, and Brahms with pianists John-Paul Ksiazek and Deanna Oye. The 2022 Centric MusicFest String Quartet are also performing with visiting colleagues, Laurie Syer and Eric Auerbach. They will be joined by artistic director, pianist Ryan Kolodziej, in a performance of Brahms’ dramatic Piano Quintet in F minor
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Tickets are $35 for adults, $15 for students for each show or a festival pass for $85.
If you’re looking for family friendly fun, Hootenanny’s The Junk Show happens every Wednesday through Saturday in Galt Gardens at 10:30 a.m. It runs until the end of July
The Lethbridge Shakespeare Performance Society opens their season’s production go Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet at Casa, Thursday, July 7 at 7:30 p.m. They will also be at Legacy Park at 7:30 p.m.. Admission is by Donation.