Three to See Edmonton Events: ESO Disney on the Square, Infest and Close to You

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Once Upon a Time: Be their guest!

Two free concerts on Churchill Square will see Bob Bernhardt conduct the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra playing music from Disney tentpoles like The Little Mermaid, Frozen, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and Tangled, to name a few.

Guest vocalists Lisa Livesay, Whitney Claire Kaufman, Aaron Phillips, and Andrew Johnson will bring the songs further to life, and footage from the films will play up on a big screen.

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Please bring your own chairs and blankets, and for those still grinning from Metallica’s rendition of One on Sunday, prepare for some pyrotechnics!

The fun starts at 4:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday with balloon artist Demmi Dupri, Celtic harpist Keri Lynn Zwicker, singer-songwriters Dana Wylie and Braden Gates, and fiddler Daniel Gervais — then the ESO concert begins at 7 p.m., lasting about two hours.

Also magical: food trucks!

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Details: 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday on Churchill Square, free admission.

Infest 2024: Definitely not your parents’ dusty InFest ’93 down in High River, this three-day GWAR-y logo gathering of filth and fury is bursting with 30 underground hardcore death-obsessed bands going by names like Fetid Grave, Congealed Flesh and family-favourite Goat Whore!

200 Stab Wounds and Balmora top Friday’s lineup in the big room, full details at infest.ca https://www.infest.ca/, where you can also pick up a three-day pass for $134.28 all in, or nightly passes starting at $44.69.

If you like black T-shirts, the merch tables are going to be deadly seductive — be warned!

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Details: 6 p.m. Friday, 4 p.m. Saturday, 5 p.m. Sunday at Starlite/Temple/River City Revival (10030 102 St.), see above for tickets.

Close to You (2023): Released from the clutches of Colin Mochrie’s Fringe show, Metro Cinema is back to being a cinema!

Friday night before a 9:30 p.m. screening of The Fifth Element is Dominic Savage’s Close to You — wherein Sam (Elliot Page) returns to his small lake town in Ontario and meets an old friend (Hillary Baack), and old sparks rekindle.

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Details: 7 p.m. at Metro Cinema (8712 109 St.), $14

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