Hey Classic 107 listeners! Summer is here and that means no excuses for not getting out and enjoying this great city of ours. Check out some of the great events taking place in the Classic 107 Arts & Entertainment Calendar!

Wednesday night marked the launch of Winnipeg’s first ever Spoken Word Festival. Four days of some of the best spoken word artists from across North America. Spoken word is art performed out loud. It can encompass performance and competitive slam poetry but it’s also storytelling, music with lyrics and other forms of poetry. This year the festival will include performance poetry, improve, music and more. It all takes place at the Gas Station Theatre in Osborne Village nightly until Saturday. Tickets are $12 available at McNally Robinson Booksellers, at the door.

For more information on the artists, schedules and ticket info go HERE.

You know summer is here when Rainbow Stage kicks off its season! This year marks the open air theatre's 60th Anniversary season and they'll be doing it with not two, but three shows this summer. Tonight (June 5) the company opens the Canadian-written musical A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline. Making its Winnipeg premiere, the musical chronicles country legend patsy Cline's rise to stardon from her humble beginnings in small town Virginia to the bright lights of Carnegie Hall. You'll hear more than 20 of Patsy Cline's greatest hits. from her emotional I Fall To Pieces to the charming Walkin' After Midnight. A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline is on now and runs to June 15th at Rainbow Stage in Kildonan Park. Tickets range from $35 to $59 dollars with special pricing for groups of 14 or more. Just go to rainbowstage.ca or in person at the box office on the round floor of Pantages Theatre Monday to Friday.

The Winnipeg Chamber Music Society presents the final night of Mozart & More! tonight (June 5) at the Wnnipeg Art Gallery. These programs were created especially for Mozart lovers and chamber music fans, presenting masterpieces of the repertoire – our own mini-festival featuring Winnipeg's most popular classical artists performing some of the greatest chamber music ever written!  Works being performed include:

DVOŘÁK Bagatelles, op. 47

SCHUBERT Rondo Brilliant, D895

THOMAS-MIFUNE Haydn's South American Lapses

MOZART Piano Quartet in G minor, K478

Showtime is at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $25 for adults and $10 for students at the door.

Friday night (June 6) the Manitoba Museum Planetariun will host Classical Guitar Extravaganza 4. Winnipeg guitarists Alan Nagelberg, Jordan Landlau and Ian Hodges will perform. Showtime is 8:00 PM. Tickets range from $10 - $20 dollars and you can get them by calling 204.667.5250

Another sure sign of summer is Shakespeare in the Ruins. Tonight (June 5) the outdoor theatre troupe opens Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. Everyone is seeing double in the legendary town of Epheseus. Followin the fortunes of not one, but two sets of identical twins, Shakespeare's comedy of mistaken identity is soaked in effervescent humour with a hint of the absurd. These men, separated as boys by a shipwreck, are about to have their lives and loves turned upside down. Canadian theatre superstar Ron Jenkins directs the SIR cast with the magical ruins of the Trappist Monastery Provincial Heritage Park are your unforgettable backdrop. The Comedy of Errors runs through to June 28th. There are nightly shows at 7:30 PM Tuesday to Saturday with 2:30 matinees Saturday and Sunday. For tickets call the Prairie Theater Exchange Box Office at 204.942.5483. Tickets range from $25 to $35 dollars with special pricing for seniors and students.

If you have an event you think we should be talking about, email us at info@classic107.com. We can't promise we'll get everything on, but we'll try. You can also submit your event to our classic107.com online events calendar.

 If you missed Claudia Garcia de la Huerta's Thursday calendar, listen here.