Temporary foreign workers perform at Banff Centre

The Banff Centre is known for hosting concerts with world-renowned musicians, but on Friday, it will present the talents ofsome of the town's foreign workers.

The World Comes to Banffmulti-media concert willfeatureactors, photographers, visual artists and musicians who also work as cleaners,cooks anddishwashers.

Many of the performers will beleaving Canada in the next few months because of the recentchanges to rules surroundingTFWs.

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That's the case for the concert'sorganizer,Rodrigo Castro, who has beenworking as ahousekeeper at the Banff Centre for almost three years.

"We want to say thank you to the Bow Valley for letting uswork and live in the beautiful Rocky Mountains," he said.

Castro himself will be playing guitar in a Latin American fusion band called Origen that he says also plays "oldies and foreign stuff."

Along with being a farewell concert, Castro hopes to showcase the "hidden talents" of Banff's foreign workers.

"Sometimes it's frustrating. You want to do other things in your life. So this is a chance to do it," he said.

The concert starts at 7 p.m. onApril 10 in theMax Bell Auditorium at the Banff Centre. It's free but people are encouraged to bring a monetary donation to the Banff Foodbank.