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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.
Black and white portrait photograph of a seated bearded man, hair cut above the ears and parted on the left wearing a wrangler style shirt, long sleeves rolled up to the elbows, and denim jeans.
Colour photograph of a Coast Salish musician standing on a stage in front of a microphone playing an acoustic electric guitar and singing.
Colour photograph of five clean shaven young musicians with short haircuts wearing white long-sleeved shirts, bolo ties and red trousers standing on a stage playing trumpet, saxophone, acoustic guitar, drums and piano.
Black and white photograph of five short haired young male musicians with instruments dressed identically in open collared white shirts, white trousers and white shoes.
Black and white photograph looking down at a paved street lined with people watching a trailer, decorated as a parade float the sides of which are trimmed with cedar boughs. At the front of the trailer is seated a musical band of about 15 persons being conducted by a man standing facing them, with his back to about 8 people seated at the back of the float.
Black and white photograph of three smiling seated adult musicians, two men and a woman, with instruments.
Black and white head and shoulders portrait photograph of a youngish Chinese man with very closely cropped hair, clean shaven, wearing a dark colored Chinese-style collarless jacket.
Black and white photograph of a railway track in the foreground along which groups of men, many of which are Chinese, are working. In the background is the wreckage of numerous wooden railway coal cars ‘concertina’d’ together in a jumbled pile.
Black and white photograph of an unpaved town street flanked by a variety of wooden and brick buildings. At at centre-left is a two story clapboard sided flat roofed building with a large windowed shop front over which is a canvas sign with the lettering ‘J.X. Smith’s Restaurant’.
Black and white grainy oval portrait photograph of a young black woman with prominent eyes and long black curly hair parted in the middle swept back off her face.
Black and white printed music score with words for the hymn ‘At the Cross’.
Colour photograph of a blonde haired smiling woman in a dark green sequined dress wearing a red and white Santa Claus hat seated before a round table strewn with compact disc covers holding in front of her a Compact Disc cover bearing her photograph and the title “The Christmas Lady”.