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Welcome to "The Beat Goes On" Gallery. Select an image to enlarge it and learn more. Enjoy exploring the story of Ladysmith and the music that helped shape our community.
Colour photograph of one side of a town street lined with two and three story early 20th century buildings of varied heritage character. Many have canvas awnings over their ground floor shopfronts.
Colour oblique aerial photograph of a town on the shore of an elongate narrow body of water with wooded islands which is bordered by forested hills.
Black and white photograph looking downhill along an unpaved street up which a brass band is leading a procession of women and children. The waters of a harbour form the background.
Colour photograph of an approximately 30-member brass band in white uniforms playing on an open air stage, the backdrop to which is a view of sea and wooded islands under a virtually cloudless blue sky.
Aerial colour photograph of a circular cement and brick outdoor stage located on a shoreline. Two tall wooden poles stand off-centre on the seaward side of the stage. Landward, facing the stage is a semicircular sloped area sculpted into stepped grass covered benches.
Colourful poster advertising The Original Reggae on the Island World Beat Festival to be held in Ladysmith July 24th/25th 1993.
Black and white photograph of several rows of seated dignitaries watching celebrations which are out of the field of view.
Black and white photograph in the foreground of which is an unkempt scrub vegetated shoreline bordering a water body into which stretch the pilings of an abandoned wharf. Wooded islands and hills form the opposite shoreline.
A night time colour photograph showing a town street adorned with colourful Christmas lights packed with people watching an overhead fireworks display.
Black and white head and shoulders photographic portrait of a smiling middle aged woman with curly hair and glasses wearing a woolen jacket over dark buttoned shirt and neck scarf.
Colour photograph of a Coast Salish woman with long salt and pepper colored hair swept back off her face wearing an azure colored cape closed at the neck over a black knee length dress and white sneakers. She holds in her right hand a drum stick and in her left a round skin drum decorated with Coast Salish stylised animals painted in black and red. She stands on a rocky shore. Behind and to the left of her a person sits in a red and white kayak, and another kneeling on a light colored paddle board. Forested islands form the skyline.
Colour photograph of a five-piece rock band performing on a small outdoor stage shielded from the sun by a white tent.