While our friends to the South are celebrating their Thanksgiving, we’ll be swiftly dragged into the Holiday season with a festival feeling picks of the week
Taste: Tonight, explore the flavours of Chinatown on Vancouver Foodster’s Tasting Plates Chinatown
Solo: Tonight at Venue, Nick Carter sheds his Backstreet Boys and goes solo with support from Dan Talevski and The New Electric
Rock: Toronto’s July Talk perform two shows at the Commodore Ballroom this week, tonight then again on Friday.
Comedy: Vancouver’s fave sketch comedy duo The Ryan And Amy Show plays the second of this week’s two live showsThursday evening at XYYVR.
Stage: The Arts Club Theatre Company brings the hilarious Avenue Q back to the Granville Island Stage until December 31st while previews of The Day Before Christmas begins on the Goldcorp Stage at BMO Theatre Centre
Folk: Irish singer/songwriter James Vincent Morrow performs at the Commodore Ballroom
Queen: Will the Christmas Queen find herself a beau? Found out if her suitors can melt the mean, cold heart of Vancouver Theatresports League’s Christmas Queen
Lights: Friday night lights up when Enchant, the worlds largest Christmas light maze and market illuminates the shores of False Creek (near Olympic Village)
Trio: Spend Friday night with Daughter when the English band take to the stage at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Divas: Friday night is a drag when Sienna Blaze’s Divas with Mandy Kamp and Milan take over The Junction
Market: The Vancouver Christmas Market moves into its new location at Jack Poole Plaza starting Saturday
Craft: The long-running Dunbar Holiday Craft Fair fills Dunbar Community Centre with Arts and Crafts on Saturday afternoon
Celtic: Saturday night, Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy present a Celtic Family Christmas show at The Centre for Performing Arts in Vancouver
Express: The Vogue Theatre hosts the wrap up of Barney Bentall & The Cariboo Express 2016 tour on Saturday evening
Garage: Fortune Sound Club has an early show with garage-rockers The Pack A.D. on Saturday evening.
Club: Get your dance on with DJ Quest and Kendall Gender at ONYX XYYVR Saturday