‘PEACE TRAIN – A Tribute to Cat Stevens,’ starring Darren Coggan is coming to The Q, Queanbeyan for one night only on Saturday, 11 April.

SINCE  its debut performance at the Wagga Civic Theatre back in 2009, Coggan’s ‘Peace Train’ has gone on to inspire many others, playing to standing ovations in the most prestigious venues in Australia including The Sydney Opera House. Bookings to theq.net.au or 6285 6290.

FAMOUS traditional Cuban Band “El Son Entero” is in town for the first time with a passionate style of music. ‘Son’ means rhythm, and they want to take us on a musical adventure into the Cuba’s musical styles Salsa, Son, Bolero, Cha Cha, Changui and Trova; from their origins in Spanish colonialism and African slavery to their current global popularity. Tonight April 9 at 7:30pm in the Hellenic Club Woden, and tomorrow April 10 at the Tradies Club Woden at 7:30pm. Doors open at 7pm, first 100 guests will have free Cuban rum.

CANBERRA’S Aeolus Wind Trio will be collaborating with Earthly Delights Historic Dance Academy for two balls on the weekend of this year’s (8th) Jane Austen Festival is at the Albert Hall this Friday 10 to Sunday 12 April. Aeolus features Jodie Petrov on flute, Lis Hoorweg on clarinet and David Whitbread on bassoon. Bookings for the festival to earthlydelights.com.au

EMINENT ANU historian Bill Gammage will launch “Your Friend the Enemy” at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery, tonight. The shows features works by 13 artists from Australia and New Zealand who have been inspired by recent visits to Gallipoli in 2013 and 2014. Participants in these trips included the painters Deirdre Bean, Elisabeth Cummings, Euan Macleod, Guy Maestri, Idris Murphy, John Walsh, Luke Sciberras, Peter O’Doherty, Steve Lopes, Michael Shepherd, Amanda Penrose Hart and Leo Robba, and the documentary film maker Bruce Inglis. The show runs Wednesday-Sunday, 12-5pm until Sunday 17 May at Drill Hall Gallery, Kingsley Street (off Barry Drive) Acton.

THE BUNGEE program @BCS presents “It Starts with Us,” a multimedia exhibition in celebration of Youth Week, running until April 17 at Belconnen Community Centre in in Swanson Crt. The show explores this year’s Youth Week theme “It starts with us” by students participating in creative classes offered through the Bungee Youth Resilience Program and the CIT Yurauna Centre Cultural Arts Program.

JOHN Tonkin is one of Australia’s most accomplished and acclaimed fine binders with a practice devoted almost exclusively to unique and small edition contemporary design bindings. The Canberra Craft Bookbinders’ Guild is presenting a selection of these bindings in ‘Fine: the work of John Tonkin’, an exhibition that will run until 24 April at Civic Library’s Mezzanine Gallery.

THE Vinyl Lounge is on again tomorrow, Friday 10 April 2015, 5:30-6:30pm in NFSA Theatrette, Canberra, ACT Free entry, no booking required. Drinks and nibbles from 5 pm. The turntable spins from 5.30 pm. bring your vinyl and play a track of your choice on our pure analogue sound system.

LEMVIS Entertainment is putting on an Elvis/Johnny Cash/country show this Saturday April 11 at 6.30pm the Victoria Hall – in Hall, which they describe as “beautiful like an old barn”. There will be dinner and dancing too. Details on the poster.

MEANTIME, The Hall School Museum is set to launch a moving exhibition to commemorate the district’s contribution to the First World War as part of the ANZAC Centenary. Friends of the Hall Museum have spent months volunteering their time to work on the exhibition, “When Hall Answered the Call”, photos, medals, letters and other memorabilia that tell the story of the boys and men from the district who went off to fight in WW1. The show will be officially launched by Andrew Leigh MP, Federal Member for Fraser, 10am on 11 April and continues each weekend in April from 10am – 4pm. Entry is by gold coin donation.

‘MINIMAL SURFACES’ is a solo exhibition by Julie Brooke at ANCA Gallery, 1 Rosevear Place Dickson. Brooke is a former biomedical scientist who now has a PhD in Visual Art and whose work is garnering a whole lot of attention here and interstate. The exhibition continues until 19 April. PEACEKNITS Pop-Up Event this Sat 11 April 10am-4pm at Boab Book Cottage, 36 Crawford St Queanbeyan offers a unique Queanbeyan opportunity to experience something different in our Anzac Centenary year. ‘Forget face painting… tell one of your own stories, make your own choc egg cosy, or draw a rose window… while relaxing in a cottage garden over a chat and cuppa, they say and bring your own experience of war and peace or other significant times in your life.

‘BEAUTIFULLY Mad’ is a show of soulful acoustic jazz, folk and blues by singer/songwriters Tony King and Kris Ralph. They’ll be at Teatro Vivaldi this Saturday April 11 with Dinner and Show from 6.30pm, Bookings to 6257 2718. ‘RIGHT Here Right Now: Children & Young People Seen + Heard’ is an impressive installation which features self-portraits and messages from more than 11,000 primary school students from over 50 ACT schools. The colourful self-portraits have been attached to hundreds of cardboard boxes and built into a double helix spiral maze. At the Fitters Workshop in Kingston through April after a tomorrow Friday April 10.

GRAMMY Award-winning international superstar, Leo Sayer, will be at The Canberra Theatre tomorrow, April 10, with his live show, a way of launching his latest album, ‘Restless Years’. With over 40 years of recording and touring the globe behind him, Sayer is showing no signs of slowing down. Bookings to canberratheatrecentre.com.au or 6275 2700.

THE Alliance Française of Canberra at 66 McCaughey St Turner has a new exhibition until the 28th of April, “Red and I” by Claudine Kloetzli. A Swiss diplomat’s spouse who finds inspiration by travelling and through her life experiences all over the world, Kloetzli has developed her artistic passion over the years during postings to Poland, Serbia and Australia and during journeys through countries of the Maghreb and the Middle East. She paints between abstraction and representation.

THE Department of Parliamentary Services is conducting behind-the-scenes tours of Parliament House as part of the Canberra and Region Heritage Festival from 11 to 26 April. It’s a great opportunity for visitors to view areas of Parliament House not normally accessible by the public and to hear how the ‘People’s House’ was designed from the very beginning to symbolise national qualities, attributes, aspirations and achievements. Aspects of these are woven into the very structure of the building which was designed to last 200 years.

TONIGHT Thursday 9 April, at 6pm, Craft ACT: Craft & Design Centre, Level 1 North Building, Civic will be launching a show of new works in response to the residency and research period in the ‘Bogs and Fens’ artist residency. In 2014, Craft ACT in partnership with ACT Parks and Conservation Service and the Australian National Botanic Gardens hosted three artists; Satoshi Fujinuma (Japan), Annee Miron (Melbourne) and Sally Blake (Canberra) as artists-in-residence. They were inspired by residences at Gudgenby Ready-Cut Cottage in Namadgi National Park and at Nil Desperandum Homestead in Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve and through research at the Botanic Gardens.

THE Meem Collective partners Nick Diver and Ben Johnston are taking heritage venue The Old Canberra Inn into a new era with the ‘Rockabilly Relaunch’, tomorrow Saturday 11 April. There’ll be rockers, bluesman and floor fillers, they say. At 195 Mouat Street, Lyneham Saturday 11 April, 11am until late.