MusicFest Vancouver 2011: Sarah McLachlan
byMusicFest Vancouver returns August 5th to 14th as over 40 classical, jazz, and world music concerts will be held around town.
Each year for 10 days in August, concert venues throughout Vancouver play host to unforgettable musical experiences that bring enthusiastic and adventurous music lovers together with some of the most talented artists in the world.
Whether you’re a knowledgeable and demanding consumer of musical performance, or a relative newcomer to a particular musical scene, the festival opens its doors and its heart to you and draws you into its vibrant milieu.
Highlights include BMO Family Day with a concert in VanDusen Botanical Garden, Accordion Day, Discovery Day, Jazz at the Cellar, and Morning Chamber Music.
Tickets are for all events are currently available online starting at $49 for bundles of concerts in each of the programs listed above, and more.
BC’s own Sarah McLachlan, who is world-renown for her chat-topping albums, songwriting, and enchanting vocals, will be opening MusicFest along with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (led by Leslie Dala) August 5th. The Odlum Brown Gala Opening Concert will take place at the Orpheum and “party dress” is encouraged for this special event.
If you would like to attend the opening gala with Sarah McLachlan, I have an exclusive pair of tickets to give away. Here’s how you can enter to win:
I will draw one winner at random from all entries on Friday, July 29th, 2011 at 9:00am. Follow MFestVan on Twitter or Facebook for news and updates about MusicFest Vancouver.
Update The winner is Fiona!
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I would love to attend!
This would be a great night 🙂
Another great contest. This would be awesome!
Thanks for making a pair of tickets available – would love to win a pair.
ah, any night with the VSO is wonderful. They were also wonderful last night at Summer Live.
Sounds fabulous!
I would love to attend and I follow you on twitter – we just happen to be in Vancouver that week!
Love to see Sarah.
Love Miss 604 🙂
I’ve seen her once before. She’s great!
I bet this will be one excellent summer series. 🙂
Yes pleeease!
VSO + Sarah McLachlan = one perfect night out!
would love to attend this! =D
I would be blessed to be absorbed into an evening of Sarah McLachlan’s amazing expression of life through her music at the MusicFest Opening Gala! I clean up real good!
I’ve loved Sarah’s music since the early 90s. I didn’t see her live until Lilith Fair, I love her!
I’d love to go!
I haven’t been able to catch her live yet and would really love to!
Great prize, great musicians/singers, great blog!
I would even come home early from holidays if I won this amazing prize!
Win win!!
Awesome!
Love to attend this event! Wish me luck!
Love, love the contest!!!
am going to
I want to win!!!! please
Would love to attend
This should be a good show!
I love Sarah and I’d love the opportunity to see her live.
I love Sarah, one of my fav artists!
I would love to see her perform!
I love her!
My best friend would be absolutely thrilled to go – she’s been a fan forever! Would love to be able to surprise her with tickets!
My entry here!
Love it!
Great contest Rebecca!
Winning this would be awesome!
Winning this would be a total dream!!
I’ve never seen her perform live and would love to go.
Ooh-party dress. Sounds fun! Plus I’ve never had the opportunity to see Sarah live.
I love Sarah! I love VSO! Combined? Would just be uber amazing!
I love Sarah McLachlan, and would love to see her live.
VSO + Sarah would make an awesome combination!
This would be great! If I don’t win, I’m going to try and buy tickets.
Pls enter us in the contest! THX!
I’ve been a long time Sarah McLachlan fan since her first album.
Love her!
would love to attend!
I would love to win tickets 🙂 Would love to take my daughter to her 1st concert 🙂
A dream come true!
Would love to win a ticket to see her!
I love Sarah!!!
Sounds like fun!!
Please pick me! 🙂
Wow! That would be a great concert!
I would love to go to this!
Saw her at GM place years ago! She was amazing! would love to see Sarah again!
Wow – what an opportunity – thanks for making these tickets available – and YES, I would love to be chosen!
It would make for a great date with my girlfriend!
Yay! I love Sarah!
I enter contests with discretion but this is one I couldn’t pass up. Would love to go!
Sarah makes my life!
That concert would be spectacular, I’m in!!
Did you know how Sarah got to Vancouver? “The signing with Nettwerk prompted McLachlan to move to Vancouver, British Columbia. There she recorded the first of her albums, Touch, in 1988, which received both critical and commercial success and included the hit song “Vox”. During this period she also contributed to an album by Manufacture, and embarked on her first national concert tour as an opening act for The Grapes of Wrath.”
Yes this would be a Grand Night!
Have a Good One
Les
How Awesome! I’d love to see her live!
would love to see Sarah!
3 of my favourite things in one venue: Sarah McLachlan, The VSO, and the beautiful Orpheum Theatre. Love it!
This would be amazing!!
all fingers crossed!
What a fantastic combination – it would be an amazing show to see.
Support local artists!!
wow! this would be an amazing show!
How cool would this be? Super cool!
I’ve been a SM fan for many years now. Have been to quite a few of her shows in Vancouver and even Las Vegas. I’d love a chance to go 🙂
I could do with some great music!
would love to see her!
crossing my fingers!!
I would love to see Sarah again. She has been a joy every time.
It is great to see Sarah has stayed close to her Vancouver roots. This will be a great concert and thanks to Miss604 for the opportunity for free tickets!
YAY! I <3 the VSO + Sarah McLachlan!
I love her!
Count me in!
Yes please, yes please,please,please,please,please.
Thank you 🙂
I’d love to see her again!
Fumbling towards ecstasy is one of my all-time favorite albums, her voice is amazing!
The VSo is already one Vancouver’s gems. To pair the VSO with another shining star, Sarah, is an outstanding combination. They were great at the 2010 Opening Ceremonies and I’m sure they will shine together again at this concert.
I would love to go see her <3
I love her – great contest! 🙂
I’d love to see her live again 🙂
So would love to be there!!
MusicFest has some great concerts. I would love to go to the Opening Gala
I’d like to see her in concert!
I would make a special trip to Vancouver for this. Thanks!
LOVE HER!! This would be an awesome even to go to!
Sarah is my absolute favourite artist!! Would love to see her again!!
I love Sarah! I hope I win 🙂
Yes please it would be fantastic! Thank u for the opportunity
Sarah is great! Keepin my fingers crossed
I love Sarah McLachlan and I love the VSO… to be able to see them together would be divine!
You’re best contest yet! I would LOVE to see Sarah with the VSO! She’s easily my very fave singer/songwriter!
I would love to see this concert!
I love Sarah McLachlan! Hope I get to go 😀
I would love to see Sarah!
Her classic songs are my favourites!
What a great combination. This will be an awesome show not to be missed but I need to win the ticket. Please, please.
What an amazing opportunity! I have never gone to any type of “Gala” event… would be incredible to see Sarah and VSO!!!
The VSO and Sarah would sound so good together
I am grateful for this opportunity!
Sounds like a very classy affair! I don’t remember the last time I attended a symphony.
Thanks for providing the tickets Musicfest is my favourite festival
in Vancouver!
It’s always nice to see a performer in a small venue like the Orpheum and Sarah is always fabulous.
I visit to vancouver from Japan! I would love to see her!
Great contest…I hope I win. 🙂
Pick me pick me!!
Should be a memorable evening!
sarah mclachlan + VSO = perfection!
I’d love to attend!
It would be great to see Sarah in concert.
I would like to go see Sarah and VSO =)
What a great event! You can’t beat a good night of music with “party dress!”
“I will remember you…” if you draw my name to see Sarah!
This would be amazing!
I would take my wife on a special night out if this was me!
Sounds fantastic – am a huge fan of Sarah McLachlan’s. Thanks for making tickets available.
this would be so lovely. i have always wanted to see Sarah live
I would LOVE to go! It’s going to be an amazing night.
Sarah AND VSO?!
I love Sarah!
What a great prize!
I love Sarah too! Count me in 🙂
Sounds like fun, Sarah McLachlan AND the VSO. Very nice.
Would love to see the VSO
Nice combination, Sarah & the VSO.
I’ve never seen her perform live. This would be alot of fun.
I was sick for my tickets to the VSO earlier this year so lets hope I am lucky this time!
Sarah + the VSO would be a lovely night to behold.
Wow, that would be amazing to attend!
This would be an evening to remember.
sounds great!
that would be awesome!!
Would love to see her and the VSO!
A friend of mine is just dying to see Sarah McLachhlan. And I would greatly enjoy it too =)
Wow, that would be incredible.
Pick me! Pick me!
I would love to attend
I can’t wait to attend!
I love Sarah!
would love to go see her
Please.. Pick me, pick me!!! I wanna go!!! Please pick me!!! 🙂
I would like to see her. Love her music….
I love the VSO and I heart Sarah Mclachlan!
My girlfriend would love this
Open the doors that lead on into eden
This would be absolutely amazing to attend. Sarah is such a beautiful soul!
This would be absolutely amazing to attend. Sarah sings like someone from heaven!
What a show! and on my Birthday too!
ME, ME, ME PLEASE – WOULD LOVE TO GO!
omg..this sounds amazing!!!!
I would love to attend!
Hoping for a spectacular Vancouver summer memory…
oh yes please!!!
I would love to attend! =)
I’d love to be there! 🙂
<3 sarah!
This would be looovely!!
Love Love Love Sarah!
Thanks for the opportunity to get in on such an amazing night!
Vancouver is so much fun in the summer 🙂
I sat outside the fence and listened to her at Lillith Fair in West Van. Her voice was so clear in the summer night air.
Oh l would love to take my family to her show, they are in from a small northern community. Thanks
Great night out with my son!
It would be sublime to win this!
Would love to win!!!
Love Sarah. Will be a great show.
Would love to see Sarah & the VSO.
I would love to hear her live….
I would love to attend this amazing concert with Sarah McLachlan.
My elderly Mom and I attended Lilith last year at Ambleside expressly to see Sarah but had to leave long before Sarah ever came onstage due to the total clusterf*** of the evening. Couldn’t eat/couldn’t see/could barely hear. What a disaster that was! Her manager promised to help us out at a future concert (but he is not her manager any more)!
I have loved her music from the beginning – what a treat this would be!
I haven’t listened to her in years, but Fumbling Towards Ecstasy was one great album.
“listen as the wind blows from across the great divide” – sarah has guided thousands through heartache and loss, love and triumph.
I grew up listening to Sarah. Love her!
A flawless music performer, always!
She’s so talented.
please….let it be me-eeeeeeeeeee !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My partner and I would love to go.
Sarah is amazing in concert! I would love to see her! I hope I win.
Saw her at Lilith Fair in the 90’s… she was great.
sarah mclachlan is great- love “dont give up on us”
Would love to win this, thanks!
Love Sarah!
Love to go!
I love her songs!
Would love to go!!! I am a singer and totally look up to her 🙂
she’s a great singer!
Sarah McLachlan *and* VSO, how awesome is that?
would love to win!
Great contest! Would love to see her live.
My mum is her biggest fan and I adore the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
Would love the opportunity for a broke student to give my mum something she likes 🙂
Sarah McLachlan + VSO = epic night!!
Great venue! Great Singer!
What a night it will be!
I hope to be there!
Would love to go!
Haven’t seen her in a very long time and would love to go!
This would be amazing!
Sarah’s music got me out of a lot of hard times. I will be in Vancouver 28-30 with my daughter. This would be a magical night for us both : )
My wife would freak if I could bring her to this!
My gf would love me forever for taking her.
Hey your glass is empty
it’s a hell of a long way home
why don’t you let me take you
it’s no good to go alone
one of my favorites!
also……”Song for a Winter’s night” is one of my favorite Christmas songs. Listen to it and you’ll know what I mean ( I know it’s July!)
oh boy! My birthday is July 30th! If I get to go, it will be best present I get for my 25th birthday <3<3
sounds amazing!
Sounds divine…
This would be amazing!
Please count me in! That would be a dream come true!
I’d love to see here live
I would LOVE to see Sarah McLaughlin perform with the VSO!
yes please!
Sounds great. Pick me please!
Let me entry sit right where you will dig in to pick out the winner!
Please draw my name!
Love Sarah – I play her songs to soothe my nephews to sleep
Wow, party dress, Sarah McLachlan, and the VSO. Hard to go wrong.
One of my favourite performers. Would love to see Sarah and VSO together!
Sign me up! I love Sarah!
What a great contest! I would LOVE to see Sarah and the VSO!
This would be a great concert for me and my kid to go to together
This will be so awesome!
i would love to attend!
Thx miss 604! I am one of Sarah’s biggest fans!
That sounds like an amazing concert. I’d take my mom.
I would cry tears of joy if I won! Sounds like an amazing night!
Oh, yes!! One of my all-time faves! You bet I’ll enter, and keep my fingers crossed! Thanks for the contest.
I haven’t seen her live since her appearance at the Tsunami Relief Concert and I would love to see her in concert again!
Awesome! I was there last night for pops and wow. Would love to see Sarah. 🙂
This would be such a great thing to go and see.
Any excuse to put on a party dress!!
Would be awsome to attend her show, love her music!
She sings like an angel. I have her music but have never seen her in person.
Please count me in!
Sarah sings so beautifully live and with VSO would just be an extra treat
Sarah is such an amazing, effortlessly talented singer. Her contribution to charities through musical outreach is inspiring 🙂
Very awesome!
Would love to win these tix.
I love Sarah — her outreach program for kids is fantastic!
I love Sarah’s beautiful voice, spirit, and heart. And we missed the VSO at Deer Lake this year. Would so love to see this.
Sounds like a great concert!
I would love to go to this concert – especially because my date is a huge Sarah McLachlan fan and I would win huge gf brownie points.
Thanks for this chance! Enter me in the contest, please!
Love to see her, the sound of her voice gives me chills
Nice prize 🙂
SAW MOODY BLUES WITH THE VSO……….wut a fabulous evening …..i want to experience spectacular……i can say sarah and the vso would be just that………SPECTACULAR
I would love to attend.
this will be a great concert!!!
Sarah is amazing…………love her so much. What a treat it would be to see her with the VSO.
Sarah McLachlan has a wonderful OUTREACH PROGRAM FOR KIDS…SOON she will be singing at VSO…I find that remarkable. I certainly wanna win the tickets to go see her dazzle the crowd at the GALA EVENT.
I entered to win tickets to see @SarahMcLachlan with @VSOrchestra from @MFestVan & @Miss604 http://ow.ly/5BI2T
This would be an incredible concert to see!
Sarah is amazing and would be spectacular to see her with VSO
not sure if this is going to do anything as there are OVER 200 here plus who knows how many tweets (including mine)
I would love to see her perform!
I’d love to be there. She has an amazing voice and her songs speak to me.
My husband loves her music.
Great contest
Lovely conbination.
great contest
Sarah + VSO = class
would be some concert.
Good luck everyone.
I’ll buy tickets if I don’t win.
Soooooo Glad I caught this the day before entries closed! Must be karma – just yesterday I bought one of Sarah’s CD’s at a yard sale to add to my collection. She’s my favourite for sure – what a beautiful mix Sarah, VSO and the Orpheum – wow. Love to surprise my friend – we’re always looking for great events that we can afford!! Good luck to everyone……………….but here’s hoping I win!!
This will be an amazing concert. I would love to attend.
Fingers crossed – I have seen Sarah perform once before and everything about it was breathtaking. No detail was overlooked… from the stage to the colours and the set list…. she is truly an AMAZING artist.
I love Sarah McLachlan. She rocks!
i love sarah! dying to go!
I would love to see Sarah. She’s great.
Love her! Would be a great show! *fingers crossed*
Dying to see her live!
Her music and voice make me feel like i am in heaven. I wish i could show n hear her voice to her 🙂
Pleaase pick me!
I love Sarah! Please pick me! 😀
sounds great!
She is just great
I love her music! Great contest.
That would be amazing!
love sarah – good luck everyone!
ooh ooh me!!!
Sounds good
I love Sarah McLachlan!
Never seen her live.
Would love, love, love this!! Have a great day! 🙂
Love Sarah McLachlan’s music, can only be better in tandem with the VSO.
This would be amazing! Thanks for the post 🙂
Would love to go!
Sarah McLachlan is amazing! Would love to hear her live!
Sarah McLachlan is an amazing woman! Would love to hear her live!
Sweet, this is awesome! 😉
I would love to surprise my mom with these tickets!!