The third annual IndieFest returns for 2022, with its first fully in-person festival bringing 14 events to venues around Vancouver, over 11 days. Taking place November 16-27, the festival showcases new and genre-defying musical performances, highlighting the stories and people that have been overshadowed by history and tradition. From modern opera, new music, and Indigenous…
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Soweto Gospel Choir stops in Vancouver & Victoria
This weekend, the three-time Grammy Award-winning Soweto Gospel Choir returns to Vancouver and Victoria for the only two Canadian stops on its North American tour. Presented by Caravan World Rhythms, the group will perform their new concert, “HOPE: It’s Been a Long Time Coming” on Saturday, November 12 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver and…
Chor Leoni Opens Season With We Sang Our Songs
We Sang Our Songs, Chor Leoni’s 31st annual Remembrance Day concerts, begins the ensembles new season, November 10 at 7:30pm, and November 11 at 2pm and 5pm, at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church. We Sang Our Songs offers a moving program of music and readings featuring diverse perspectives on war and injustice. Highlights include works by…
Vancouver Opera opens with Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers
Vancouver Opera opened its 2022-2023 season at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre with a lush, full-scale production of Georges Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers. In spite of the fact that the French writers and composer never set foot on the island, as we are told in the opening prologue, The Pearl Fishers transports the audience to the…
See & Hear Vancouver International Jazz Festival…In-Person!
The 35th Vancouver International Jazz Festival is bringing you live music, in-person! With the recent announcement from Provincial Public Health Officials of the move to Step 2 of British Columbia’s Restart Plan, Vancouver International Jazz Festival organizer Coastal Jazz & Blues Society is thrilled to welcome small in-person audiences to indoor concerts at two…
Get to know Carmen: Up Close and Personal with Vancouver Opera
Is fate written in the card for Carmen? We will have to see as, Vancouver Opera wraps its digital season with a unique production of Bizet’s timeless classic, Carmen: Up Close and Personal. Director Brenna Corner has crafted a production that lives up to the title Up Close and Personal. Mounting an opera as grand…
Port Theatre introduces The Discovery Series
The Port Theatre Society in Nanaimo is introduction The Discovery Series a new presentation series that features emerging local artists from the community. From Nanaimo to Gabriola and other parts of Vancouver Island, Port Theatre Society is supporting and growing local talent in the region by welcoming locals and those of us further afield to…