Last night Chor Leoni’s Mane Event at Bard on the Beach filled the mainstage tent with the sounds of music. The perfect way to wrap up the Canada Day weekend, the Lions brought to stage a varied selection of songs including a taste of Canadiana including iconic hits by Tragically Hip, Ian & Sylvia Tyson…
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Good Noise Choir & Guests deliver good noise
This past weekend, Good Noise Vancouver Gospel Choir closed their season with concerts at the beautiful Christ Church Cathedral. Jazz Meets Gospel brought together two genres, along with special guest collaborations with multi-instumentalist Daniel Lapp and the award-winning ViBE Senior Choir from Holy Cross Regional High School. Before a full house, the 80+ members of…
Good News! Good Noise Choir: Jazz Meets Gospel
Good Noise Vancouver Gospel Choir (Good Noise) brings their 2017-2018 season to a close with a cross-genre concert: Jazz Meets Gospel. On June 2 at 3pm & 8pm, Good Noise, the choir-in-residence at Christ Church Cathedral, will bring audiences to their feet, as the high-octane ensemble explores the intersection of the two music genres. For this…
Vancouver Christmas Concerts for 2017
Christmas has a long association with music; carols, hymns and cantatas, bringing spirit to the Season’s concerts. Calendars are filled with school and church concerts, and to help you get in the song-filled spirit, here’s a list of concerts around Vancouver to take in this Season for your listening pleasure: Handel’s Messiah: Friday December 1…
Vancouver Bach Festival welcomes Cinquecento
The Vancouver Bach Festival presented by Early Music Vancouver is now underway with shows at Christ Church Cathedral and The Chan Centre. Wednesday night’s program, Songs of Religious Upheaval featured the European quintet Cinquecento. For their first performance in Vancouver the group performed a selection of music from Reformation England by composers Thomas Tallis, Christopher…
Picks of the Week – December 17, 2014
With barely a week until Christmas, there’s plenty of Holiday cheer to be had in the picks of the week; Improv: You never know what will happen when the Vancouver Theatresports League presents Christmas Queen: An Improv Comedy Fairytale wraps up on Sunday Ice: The Vancouver Canucks try to regain their winning ways as they host…
Music Makes Us – Music Monday May 2, 2011
Anyone who’s read this blog probably knows that music is a huge passion for me. I’m not sure where is came from perhaps my parents giving me a guitar and lessons as a child, having a brilliant music/choir teacher in elementary school or teachers having a record (yes I’m old enough to remember vinyl records)…