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Phone (403) 678-4080 Fax (403) 678-4020  e-mail: lodge@mountengadine.com Mount Engadine Lodge Box 40025 Canmore, Alberta, Canada T1W 3H9 |
The roots of our Music in the Meadow series began in 2007 when we held our first small venue music concert at the Lodge. In the summer of 2008, we expanded to 4 concerts and when Eliza Gilkyson, headliner for the Canmore Folk Festival, agreed to do a concert during her stay with us, we knew we were onto something great. These concerts get our guests up close and personal with very talented musicians and combined with the setting sun over Tent Ridge, those warm summer nights are magic. |
| For the summer of 2009, we have some more fantastic musicians booked, including a Juno Award nominee. They include Maria Dunn, Cara Luft, Suzie Vinnick and two 2008 returning acts, JP Riemens and Kat Danser. For more information and dates, check out the Music in the Meadow page. Along our arts theme, this month, we hosted the Mountain Writers Program participants and faculty to the Lodge for two nights. We have been the sole sponsor of this Banff Centre Program which we started in conjunction with the Banff Centre 4 years ago. The program brings together experienced and first time writers with two very experienced editors, Marnie Jackson who is a senior editor at The Walrus, which recently won a National Magazine Award for "Best Magazine of The Year" and Tony Whittome who is editorial director of Hutchinson and an editorial director of Random House UK. For six weeks they refine their writing and related work plans with a goal of getting their works published in the mainstream. At the 2008 Banff Center Book Festival, four Alumni of the program entered books in the festival, books that most of them were working on during their participation in the Banff Mountain Writing Program. Marie Coffey's recently Oprah selected work called Explorers of the Infinite, the Muskwa-Kechika book called Northern Images by Wayne Sawchuk, Andy Kirkpatrick's PyschoVertical, and Jenny Lowe-Anker`s Forget Me Not. Please pick up their books and have a read. Besides helping some of these authors move their works along, the side benefit of sponsoring this program is our ever expanding mountain literature library at the lodge. We are quite proud of our support of the arts. Whether it be in support of musicians, authors or visual artists. Using the Lodge as a venue to encourage these artists and to continue supporting their passion, gives our family a huge sense of satisfaction.
March, 2008 This is late for talking about Fall 2007, but our autumn was, to say the least, extremely busy. Renovations to the upstairs of the Lodge were completed on time for the Christmas holidays and the winter season. Based on the reviews from our winter guests, the new rooms are fantastic! The 4 new rooms replaced 7 rooms that shared bathrooms and showers. Now every room at Mount Engadine Lodge has private bathrooms with showers. Three of the 4 new rooms have King sized beds and one room accommodates a single traveler. Each King room also has beautiful new lounging chairs and big windows to overlook moose meadows. We also received all of our new chairs, bedding and pillows for the cabins and lodge suites. Slowly we have moved through the property replacing and renovating since we have owned the property. Next, we will focus on the new cabins which are planned to be built over the next few years. We are very pleased with our selection to the Top 10 Hidden Gems in Canada by travel reviewers at TripAdvisor, and also being picked as one of the Top 150 Places You'll Love to Stay by National Geographic Traveller. These awards are gratifying and we thank our guests for their continued support and writing nice things about us. In closing, I did want to share with you our plans for Music in the Meadow this year. Last summer we tested how a lodge concert might work. Could we do it outside? What happens if it rains? Is there enough interest? Is there enough room? Let me just say it was a big success. Now four weekends have been set aside this summer for intimate lodge concerts for our guests. Opening weekend, June 13 - 14 has a local talent named Cori Brewster performing. Have a look at the website under Events and Retreats to see who else is coming to the Lodge this summer to perform. Nothing is better than to be out in the mountains all day then come back for a drink, dinner and an up close concert.
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