The 37th Annual Harrison Festival Of The Arts is set to get underway in just over a week away. If you haven’t already, make your plans and get your tickets to the world class music festival with small town roots. For nine days, July 11 – 19, 2015, the hamlet of Harrison Hot Springs is…
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Picks of the Week – July 1, 2014
Happy Canada Day! I hope your day is filled with fun and patriotism with your friends and family! Let’s see what fun we have to start July with in these picks of the week… MapleLeaf: Metro Vancouver’s largest Canada Day event takes place at Canada Place, free family fun throughout the day wraps up with hundreds of thousands…
Polaris Music Prize 2015 Long List
Last week, the Polaris Music Prize announced the 2015 long list at an event at The Carleton club in Halifax. The non-profit Polaris Music Prize organization annually celebrates and rewards the creativity and diversity of all recorded Canadian music regardless of sales or genre. From this years 197 eligible titles, the Polaris jury of 196…
Picks of the Week – June 24, 2015
While it’s felt like it for weeks, we are into our first full week of summer, let’s see how the picks of the week can get your temperature rising… Music: This evening from 5pm – 10pm, Gastown is filled with sounds as Make Music Vancouver returns for another year of great music and fun throughout the…
Make Music Vancouver 2015
Wednesday evening, the streets of Gastown will once again be filled with the sounds of music. For the fourth year, Make Music Vancouver presents a day of music, hundreds of music acts, absolutely free! The grass-roots volunteer run event shuts down Water Street in Vancouver and transforms the pavement into a series of stages and performance spaces….
Picks of the Week – June 17, 2015
The start of summer is upon us, what lies ahead for the official kick off of the season? Let’s see in the picks of the week… Heroes: Capt American, Iron Man, Thor and more are all battling evil when Marvel Universe Live brings the heroes together at Pacific Coliseum for 8 shows Thursday – Sunday Roar:…
Starsailor and Embrace wrap up NA tour
British rock acts Starsailor and Embrace just wrapped up their co-headlining North American tour this weekend. Both bands made a splash in the early 2000s but after a few quiet year are back on the road, they made a recent stop at The Imperial in Vancouver. Starsailor was on hiatus from 2009 until 2014 but the regrouped…