The entertainment keeps coming as summer steadily creeps closer. This weeks picks finds heaps of arts & culture to keep you out and about. New Wave: Former Talking Heads frontman, David Byrne takes the stage at Queen Elizabeth Theatre tonight Comedy: Get a full course of comedy when improv legend Colin Mochrie comes to the…
Category: Music
Pacific Northwest Music Festivals 2018
This week, Rifflandia Festival revealed its 2018 lineup featuring Hey Ocean!, Current Swell, Blitzen Trapper, and others, but before that September fest happens, many more acts will take to festival stages around the Pacific Northwest. Here’s a list of some of the multi-artist festivals and outdoor shows in Oregon, Washington, Alberta and BC. (Note: not all…
Say I Do to Mamma Mia at Arts Club
From the opening notes of the overture to the final sing-along curtain call, Mamma Mia now play at The Arts Club Theatre Company Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage, will have you dancing in your seat. The feel-good jukebox musical inspired by the hit music of Abba is composed by Abba’s Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and…
Picks of the Week – May 16, 2018
The Victoria Day, May long weekend marks the unofficial start of the summer season for many of us, bringing with it a bounty of entertainment to fill our picks of the week. Abba: You’ll say thank you for the music as the Arts Club opens the Abba musical Mamma Mia! at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Theatre Stage tonight,…
Picks of the Week – May 9, 2018
It’s May and the sun has (mostly) returned to bring light to our longers days filled with entertaining picks of the week Taste: Join the tasty tribe as Vancouver Foodster’s Tasting Plates Kitsilano explores the West Side neighbourhood this evening Woods: Head Into The Woods until Saturday, as the North Shore Light Opera Society brings the Tony…
Vancouver Folk Music Festival Debuts 2018 Line Up
From July 13 to 15, 2018, the Vancouver Folk Music Festival will once again take over Jericho Beach Park. The 42nd Annual Festival brings folk fans, friends and families, another line-up of the best of traditional and contemporary folk and roots music from around the world. Legends, up and comers, deliver global rhythms, from the likes of…
Picks of the Week – May 2, 2018
It’s finally here, April showers have been left behind and brought flowers plus more entertainment for our first picks of week in May. Colour: This is your last chance to celebrate the colours of spring with a visit to the Abbotsford Tulip Festival 10 acres covered in millions of blooms until Thursday May 3rd. R&B: Start the…