Press Release: ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE GRANT APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE Columbia Basin – Artists in all disciplines—as well as arts, culture and heritage organizations—are invited to apply for funding through the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance (CKCA), which delivers the Arts, Culture and Heritage Program of Columbia Basin Trust (CBT). For 2012/13, funding has increased by $55,000, [...]

PRESS RELEASE BC & Kootenay musician-composer and choir director Johnny Popoff’s St. Patrick’s Day birthday may account for his latest batch of “Irish Luck”. On a working visit in New Zealand he met some fellow musicians, a family group already well-known in NZ and the USA as The O’Connors. Sean O’Connor and Amanda Ironside O’Connor, [...]