Wednesday night, the 2015 Polaris Music Prize campaign starts off with the first in a nationwide series of Polaris Panels. Last week, Founder and Executive Director of the Polaris Music Prize, Steve Jordan, announced plans for a series of Polaris Panels in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax. Replacing the former Salons, Polaris Panels…
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Picks of the Week – May 27, 2015
Wrapping up May just brings us that much closer to Summer. The signs are there as the entertainment season heats up with these picks of the week; Kids: All week long, the Vancouver International Children’s Festival fills Granville Island with fun and entertainment that’s great for kids of all ages and their family’s Gig: Singer-Songwriter,…
Picks of the Week – May 20, 2015
Coming off a busy long weekend you’d think there would be a lull but there’s plenty of entertainment in the picks of the week; Brits: Tonight, Liverpool indie act The Wombats play The Imperial on Main Street. Rock: Latin, Rockabilly, Country all come together when The Mavericks take the stage at Commodore Ballroom tonight EDM:…
The Main Event Tour
This summer, arenas all around North America will be filled with nostalgic revellers as NKOTB are joined by TLC and Nelly on The Main Event tour. On their recent stop in Vancouver, near the start of the tour, fans were treated to nearly 4 hours of entertainment, in the round, at Rogers Arena. With the…
Pacific Northwest Festivals 2015
Sasquatch Music Festival is upon us in a few weeks, bringing a plethora of artists to the Pacific Northwest and launching the start of the Festival Season in our neck of the woods. Here’s a few of the multi-artist festivals in Oregon, Washington, Alberta and BC. (Note, not all the festivals have their artist line-up…
Picks of the Week – May 6, 2015
Here we are, the start of May! Summer is just around the corner and signs of the season are popping up all over, take a look at what’s happening in the picks of the week; Docs: The 2015 DOXA Documentary Film Festival wraps up this Sunday closing out 11 days of documentary films with the Closing Night…
Clean Bandit wrap West Coast tour
UK electronic group, Clean Bandit wrapped up their 6 week tour of Western North America last week. Their penultimate show brought them to the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver for an hour long energy-filled show. The quartet of Grace Chatto, Jack Patterson, Luke Patterson, and Neil Amin-Smith were lead by tour vocalist Elizabeth Troy who belted through…