The Indigo Girls have been touring the world for the last 25 years and they’re about to embark on a new Canadian Tour this fall. Amy Ray and Emily Saliers are a timeless folk rock duo that has released albums since 1987 both as a group and individually. Photo courtesy of Paul Mercs Concerts These […]
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Selah Sue, a Belgian musician and songwriter, will be playing VENUE in Vancouver on Tuesday, August 20, 2013. Her debut album Selah Sue was released in Europe in 2011 and it gardnered her a European Border Breakers Award that year. The following year she won another EBBA for People’s Choice. Her album was released in […]
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With success in theatre, film, television and most definitely as Grammy Award-winning musician, Harry Connick Jr will be taking to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre stage this August in Vancouver. Courtesy of Live Nation His love of music and performing dates back to his childhood in New Orleans, where he studied piano with such luminaries as […]
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This week Latincouver presents the Latin American Carnaval Week featuring Carnaval del Sol, Vancouver’s Latin American celebration of arts and culture. It kicked off last night with a themed float in the Canada Day parade and we’re in store for much more in the coming days. Hundreds of volunteers will welcome an expected 100,000 people […]
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Barney Bentall & The Legendary Hearts are celebrating their 25th anniversary with a live performance at the Commodore this month. Singer-songwriter Barney Bentall is reuniting with The Legendary Hearts (Colin Nairne, Jack Guppy, Michael Crozier, David Reimer) his roots/blues/rock band that has won Juno Awards, gone platinum with their records, and provided the soundtrack for […]
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Vancouver loves its fun runs and the Radiant Run happening at UBC on a warm, dark August evening promises to have plenty of fun included. This 5km run will feature music along the route and participants are encouraged to wear their “neon, craziest, most wildly bright outfit” along the course to make a moving light […]
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Last week Live Nation announced Mumford and Sons will be playing Holland Park in Surrey and yesterday their latest Concerts in the Park series was unveiled: fun. along with Tegan and Sara will be performing at Ambleside Park in West Vancouver on Saturday, August 31, 2013 at 5:00pm. Photo credit: colink. on Flickr On the […]
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This morning I was on the ne BC1 talk show AM/BC with Global’s Jill Krop along with another guest, Joel Schat. Joel’s been making waves lately with his Heart of Vancity timelapse video of Vancouver: Heart of Vancity from Joel Schat on Vimeo. In the green room Joel told me that it took him about […]
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March is Music Therapy Month and you can celebrate by supporting Music Heals on Saturday, March 2nd. They are hosting A Night Out For Music Heals, thanks to the participation of over 20 venues, that will benefit local music therapy programs across BC. When you visit one of these establishements on Saturday, March 2, 2013 […]
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Travel vloggers eat your hearts out! Back in 1936 James A. FitzPatrick presented a series of newsreels in fantastic new Technicolor called Traveltalks which included profiles of Victoria and Vancouver. Most of Fitzpatrick’s Traveltalks were produced by MGM and featured over a hundred destinations, from Motoring in Mexico (1943) and Chicago the Beautiful (1948) to […]
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