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Contents:
• Media Release: Deep Freeze: A Byzantine Winter Festival 2011 (Jan 8 & 9, 2011)
• Ice on Whyte: A celebration and exchange of art and culture (Jan 13-23, 2011)
• Edmonton Symphony Orchestra Release: $20 tickets make perfect musical stocking
stuffers this Christmas (shows in Jan 2011)
• Media Advisory: Fringe Theatre Adventures presents Mozart: Ze Komplete Hystery (Jan
20-30, 2011)
Media Release

Experience midwinter merriment on January 8 & 9, 2011 as the Deep Freeze Byzantine Winter
Festival returns to Alberta Avenue (118 Ave, 92-94 Street), one of Edmonton’s most historic
neighbourhoods for a fourth year.

On Saturday, the festival will bring back the Julian calendar and celebrate the Olde New Year
with Byzantine food and entertainment including Olde Tyme Curling, Tom Fool’s Ice and Snow
Kingdom, and ice-skating. In the evening Deep Freeze presents Melt the Deep Freeze Dance
featuring Le Fuzz from 7:00-11:00pm. Le Fuzz combines rhythms and song-writing traditions of
other cultures with their own unique blend of Alberta Folk music and original lyrics. Tickets for
Melt the Deep Freeze are $10 and are available in advance at The Carrot Community Arts
Coffeehouse (9351-118 Ave) and Mhyre’s Music (8735-118 Ave), or at the door.

Sunday, revel in French Canadian Heritage with music, cuisine, and dance. Experience tourtière
(meat pie) and tarte au sucre (sugar pie), tap your spoons to the sounds of Allez Ouest, and visit
the delicious Cabane à Sucre for la tire (iced maple syrup on a stick). Patrons can also watch four
ice sculptors from Harbin, China create magnificent ice masterpieces from noon-5pm.

On the street, families can enjoy Heritage Activities including wagon rides, Baseball poche, and
competition de boucheron; Vlad’s Village Pig, a delicious fire roasted suckling pig, fresh from the
spot, served on a bun; and the Deep Freeze Street Hockey Tournament. Festival-goers can also
enjoy the Alberta Ave Farmers’ Market and the Artisan Market & Gallery Sale, where artworks
from over 50 visual and fine craft artists will be showcased and sold. Both are located inside the
Old Cycle Building (9141-118 Ave).

The festival will also feature the Alberta Ave Mummers Collective. Mummers Theatre
(Mummery), is a tradition that goes back to the middle ages when during Christmas, or just
before lent, serfs and peasants would dress up in “disguises” and present pageant style
performances to their liege lords. Mummery has always been about “by the people, for the
people,” so this year Deep Freeze is hosting a contest and inviting the public to create a
mummers play. Performances run Saturday at 2:00pm and 9:30pm, and Sunday at 2:00pm.

The two day festival is open to the public and draws in people from within the community as
well as the greater Edmonton area. Deep Freeze Festival is organized by The Arts on the Ave
Edmonton Society, a non-profit, community based, grassroots initiative engaged in development
of 118th Avenue into a community arts district. Admission is free (donations accepted).
www.artsontheave.org
www.deepfreezefest.ca

Media Contact
Ashley Buck, Bottom Line Productions
P: 780.988.8914 x 5
E: ashley@bottomlinepro.com

Ice on Whyte Festival

January 13-23, 2011 www.iceonwhyte.ca

The Ice on Whyte Festival in 2011

will be a celebration and exchange
of art and culture between the
sister cities and sister provinces of
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and
Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.

The Ice on Whyte Festival in Old

Strathcona area includes an
international carving competition, sanctioned by the National Ice Carvers Association showcase
artists from Russia, the Netherlands, Armenia, Canada, and China.

Join in the 11 days of interactive outdoor winter activities, including a Giant Dragon Ice Slide, Ice
Pagoda, Children's Play area and the L'il Chipper Program for school groups. There will also
be Live Nightly Entertainment and hot beverages in the heated cafe tent.

Media Release

Perfect musical stocking stuffers from your Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

All seats $20* for select concerts in January
*Plus applicable service charges

Saint-Saëns’ Second Piano Concerto

Landmark Classic Masters
Saturday, January 8, 2011 at 8:00pm Slovenian pianist Dubravka Tomšič makes her ESO debut,
joining guest conductor Gregory Vajda for the glittering Second Piano Concerto of Camille Saint-
Saëns. Dvořák’s Sixth Symphony, a pivotal work of the composer’s emerging maturity, is alive
with Czech dance rhythms, and Jean Coulthard’s lush Canadian Fantasy transforms three folk
tunes into symphonic splendour. Thank you to our Landmark Classic Masters series sponsor
Landmark Classic Homes, and series media sponsors CBC and CKUA Radio Network.

Late Night Percussion

Late Night with Bill Eddins
Friday, January 21, 2011 at 9:30pm Renowned percussionist Colin Currie performs the lyrical,
yet urgently rhythmic Rough Music – a concerto by the impressive H.K. Gruber. Bill Eddins
conducts Calgary composer Allan Gordon Bell’s bristling Symphonies of Hidden Fire along with
music by Frank Zappa, Steve Reich, Per Nørgărd, and Matthias Schmitt. Following the concert,
guests can stick around for live entertainment and cocktails in the main lobby.

Violin and Viola

Midweek Classics
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 at 7:30pm The ESO celebrates the eve of Mozart’s 255th birthday
with the composer’s lush Sinfonia concertante – a work that features Edmonton-born violinist
Andrew Wan and ESO Assistant Principal Viola Charles Pilon. Rossini’s dramatic operatic
overture, Semiramide, and Weber’s colourful overture, Oberon, will also be performed by your
ESO under the direction of Bill Eddins. Thank you to our Midweek Classics series sponsor Espace
Musique.

Grieg’s Piano Concerto

Sunday Showcase
Sunday, January 30, 2011 at 2:00pm Swiss pianist Gilles Vonsattel, winner of several major
piano competitions and laureate of Canada’s Honens Competition, makes his ESO debut
performing Edvard Grieg’s only piano concerto. ESO Principal Tuba Scott Whetham plays a
lighthearted heavyweight – Vaughan Williams’ surprisingly agile Tuba Concerto. Dohnányi’s
Symphonic Minutes, a tuneful and skillfully orchestrated work yet groundbreaking in style,
completes the program. Thank you to our Sunday Showcase series sponsors CKUA Radio
Network and Edmonton’s Child Magazine.

From December 12 - 18, 2010, all tickets for the above listed concerts are $20 (plus applicable
service charges). Purchase online at EdmontonSymphony.com or through the Winspear Centre
Box Office, (780) 428-1414 or toll-free 1-800-563-5081.

Media contact:
Pamela Pecush, Publicist
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra | Winspear Centre
Direct: (780) 401-2532; Cell: (780) 952-2532
Pamela.Pecush@winspearcentre.com

Winspear Centre Box Office:

#4 Sir Winston Churchill Square
(780) 428-1414 or 1-800-563-5081
www.EdmontonSymphony.com
www.WinspearCentre.com
Media Advisory: Advance Notice

MOZART: ZE KOMPLETE HYSTERY

Comedian and musician Rainer Hersch brings an hilarious

Wolfgang Amadeus back from the dead in Mozart: Ze
Komplete Hystery, running January 20 – 30, 2011, 8pm
nightly at the TransAlta Arts Barns’ Westbury Theatre.
Hersch, a perennial Fringe Festival favourite, takes his
musical character-playing into the realm of pure fantasy
with riotous consequence in a display of costume comedy
and piano playing.
Tickets for Fringe Theatre Adventures’ presentation of
Mozart: Ze Komplete Hystery are $23 for adults and $19 for
students/seniors (plus tax/fees), available now at the FTA
Box Office, (780) 409-1910 or www.fringetheatre.ca.

Media contact: Liz Lepper, Bottom Line Productions

p: (780) 988-8914 x 3 | e: liz@bottomlinepro.com