The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC welcomes Grammy Award winning, Ladysmith Black Mambazo on March 2nd. Supported by Malian guitarist Habib Koité and lutist Bassekou Kouyate, the nine-member South African choral group stops at the Chan Centre on their global tour of Shaka Zulu Revisited: 30th Anniversary Celebration, for which they earned the Best World Music Album of 2018 and…
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Harrison Festival of the Arts 2015
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…
Live At The Commodore – Book Launch
The Commodore Ballroom is Vancouver’s and perhaps one of Canada’s most treasured live music spaces. Great sound, great sightlines and the famous sprung dancefloor have helped to keep fans flocking to the venerable venue. Since 1929, the Commodore has hosted an amazing array of music greats like; Duke Ellington, Tina Turner, James Brown, U2, The…
Help Keep The WISE Alive Fundraising Concert
With three weeks left in the ‘Keep the WISE Alive’ fundraising campaign and just over half of the $10000 goal raised, WISE Hall has announced a benefit concert. On August 9th, local rockers The Odds, are joined by Palomars and Big Top with an appearance by the Screaming Chicken Burlesque Society. Besides a night of…
Rickshaw Theatre – reopening
Wednesday night saw the music industry media and insiders celebrating the grand reopening of the new and improved Rickshaw Theatre. Located near the corner of Main & Hastings Street, the 70’s era theatre was orginally built to show Chinese language kung-fu films but closed in the early 80’s and after sitting abandoned for over 2 decades it was brought…