The Yukon Arts Centre announced its fall and winter presentation schedule this week, including an eclectic mix of art, theatre, dance and music.

In total, the centre will be presenting 11 art exhibitions, three dance and theatre performances and 10 musical performances over the next nine months. Additional surprises are expected to be added to the schedule as the season progresses.

Highlights include Canadian musical legend Ian Tyson, dancer Margie Gillis and works by Group of Seven artist A.Y. Jackson.

Though the musical performances, which dominate the schedule, cover a wide range of styles, there is little if anything among them which will appeal to youth.

However, most of the performers are expected to attract big crowds. Tyson is the major draw card, a folk music singer-songwriter, whose career has spanned four decades.

The first musical performance of the season will come in the form of a Latin music fest, spanning three nights in mid-October.

'This year we've decided to spread the idea of world music over an entire weekend,' Eric Epstein, the centre's artistic director, told a news conference.

The festival will feature Latin musicians from Canada and the U.S., along with some music from across the Caribbean and South America.

Being co-presented with Jazz Yukon, the Latin music fest will run Oct. 14-16, and will have performances at both the arts centre and the Yukon Convention Centre.

Renowned throat singer Tanya Tagaq Gillis, a highlight of July's Dawson City Music Festival, will be returning to the Yukon with the Kronos Quartet.

'She's taking throat singing to a new realm,' said Epstein. 'It's a great chance to see a world class group - they're the leading non-classical string quartet in the world.'

The only scheduled musical presentation resembling rock will be Janis Janus, a Janis Joplin cover band led by Jan Kudelka.

'She starred in the original Toronto production of Hair,' said Epstein. 'It's a great time to go back and revisit some of that music.'

The remaining musical performances include Florent Vollant, Tom Russell, The Christmas Carol Project, The Campbell Brothers, The Bills and Linda Tillery.

In the gallery, the major exhibit of the season will be The Road, featuring the works of Group of Seven artist A.Y. Jackson and H.G. Glyde, as well as several other artists, who documented the construction of the Alaska Highway in 1941.

'This'll be the first time the gallery has shown a G7 artist,' said museum curator Scott Marsden, notably proud of the works gathered for this year's exhibitions. 'There's a stimulating dynamic to the collection.'

Among the more unusual exhibits will be an animated sequence of The Pit bar in Dawson City by Allison Hrabluik.

'It's a four-minute, non-stop, looping action sequence exploring the dynamics of a younger generation,' said Marsden.

Kicking off the season will be three exhibitions: Elusive Containment by Yukon artists Janet Moore and Samantha Dickie; Adjacent, Nonlinear by Bonnie Devine and Hannah Claus; and The Lost Boys by Michele Karsh-Ackerman.

'Next week will be very interesting,' said Didier Delahaye, the arts centre's marketing co-ordinator, referring to the work by Devine and Claus.

'It'll be real blend of traditional elements to make something completely contemporary.'

Devine and Claus are both first nations, Ojibway and Mohawk respectively.

The Lost Boys exhibit will consist of knitted sweaters resembling those made for soldiers during the First World War.

'Part of the collection will be to have members of the community knit sweaters to be added to the collection,' said Marsden.

These three exhibits will run Sept. 8-Oct. 23.

Among the remaining art exhibitions are works by Jacqueline Olson and Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Lisa Birke, Jude Griebel, Ray Bradley and Gary Kaulitz, Maureen Morris, Lyndal Osborne and John Freeman.

'There are three Alaskan and five first nations exhibits,' said Marsden. 'A pretty good mix of what's out there.'

Only three theatrical performances are on the schedule thus far. The notable exception among them is dancer Margie Gillis, who will perform on Sept. 23.

'She was here in 2000,' said Epstein. 'She's a remarkable dancer, certainly one of the best-known dancers in Canada.'

The two other theatre performances are Time Pieces, a show which weaves film, dance and text in an attempt to challenge the understanding of time, and Tempting Providence, a play about nurse Myra Bennett, referred to as the 'Florence Nightingale of the North'.

With a lineup such as this, the arts centre is sure to please many of the city's art and music lovers this year.

With a notable absence of youth-oriented music and non-modern art, however, it would be unjust to use the cliche, 'There's something for everyone.'