It’s just like a flyer plastered around A&B Sound in Whalley in my formative years! The Saints and Sinners Tour with Big Wreck, Headstones, Moist and The Tea Party will hit Canada this summer. Starting June 26th in Penticton it will head around BC then east before culminating in St. John’s NL on July 30th.
Saints and Sinners Tour with Big Wreck, Headstones, Moist and The Tea Party
Tour Dates in BC:
June 26, 2020 – Penticton, BC – South Okanagan Events Centre
June 27, 2020 – Abbotsford, BC – Abbotsford Centre
June 29, 2020 – Victoria, BC – Save On Foods Memorial Centre
With over a dozen Gold and Platinum certified albums, hundreds of thousands of concert tickets sold and some of the most incredible hits among the line-up, the tour will be a once in a lifetime rock music spectacle. Every night will be a new experience for fans with a rotating, surprise line-up for each show and each band could not be more excited about hitting the road on this amazing tour.
The Saints and Sinners 2020 Tour has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 from every ticket (where available) will go to the Unison Benevolent Fund and their work providing counselling and emergency relief services to the Canadian music community.
VIP Packages and Artist’s Presale start Tuesday January 21st at 10:00am. Tickets on sale Friday, January 24 at 10:00am.
For $99 you can upgrade your tickets to the VIP package that includes:
Once in a lifetime photo opportunity with you and all four bands!*
Exclusive VIP Commemorative Saints and Sinners 2020 Tour Laminate **
Exclusive Saints and Sinners 2020 Tour Lanyard
Limited Edition Pin-Pack (includes 4 Pins, 1 from each band)
Exclusive Saints and Sinners 2020 Tour Drink Koozie
Front of the line access to the venue for VIP pass holder ^
Early access to merch booth for VIP pass holder^
* Photo will be with you or your group, and all bands on the tour ** VIP Laminate is your access ticket to the VIP event ^ Unavailable in Ottawa & St John’s
For more information about the BC dates, follow Live Nation West on Twitter.
When the weather outside gets frightful, Vancouverites celebrate with food festivals! We’ve got hot chocolate, food trucks, and for the second year, the Vancouver Soup Festival presented by Vancouver Foodster.
Vancouver Soup Festival
Until February 2, 2020 participating restaurants will feature different soups each week and you are invited to visit, order, savour, and then VOTE for your People’s Choice favouritesfrom each week’s offerings.
Vancouver Foodster will have 3 sets of winners each week. You can pick your favourites based on originality, creativity, uniqueness, traditional, non-traditional, price, value and most importantly taste. Vegan, gluten free, noodles or none, spicy or creamy – have fun trying them all!
Participants
The Chopped Leaf (488 Robson St) Week 1: Mexicali (a hearty soup made with tomatoes, black beans, onions, banana peppers, jalapeno peppers, garlic & spices) Week 2: Tuscan Kale (a vegetable medley made with tomatoes, onion, celery, carrots, kale, lemon juice & spices) Week 3: Spicy Creamy Tomato (a smooth and savoury base kicks a classic tomato flavour up a notch.
Mi Casa Mexicana (2015 Burrard St) Week 1: Birria de Res (from the Jalisco region of Mexico this soup features beef stew, cilantro, onion, lime, corn tortillas and salsa roja) Week 2: Mole de Olla (from the Mexico City region this soup features beef, zucchini, green beans, corn, cilantro, onion, lime, corn tortillas and salsa roja) Week 3: Pozole Rojo (from the Mexico City region this soup features corn hominy, chicken/pork broth, onion, lettuce, radish, oregano, lime. Served with tostadas, sour cream, and spicy salsa pozolera)
Follow @VanFoodster on Twitter for the latest flavours and voting info.
Where: The Annex (823 Seymour St, Vancouver) When: January 29 to February 2, 2020 various times (3 shows January 31st) Tickets: Available online now starting at $39
The Fever – Photo by Waleed Shah
How much can we trust other people? How do we form our conceptions of them? What does it take for us to work together? The Fever takes issues like these and makes them the stuff of riveting theatre. It all begins with the character of Marianne, who has just held a party; from there, the performance builds into a study of community, caring and mutual reliance. Along the way, limits will be tested and bonds will form.
In these times of cultural fragmentation and heavy discord, art about the ways we work with—and against—each other has a special relevance, a special value. Don’t expect anything didactic from this piece, however; it doesn’t so much promote unity as enact it on the spot. That’s about as much as can be said without spoiling the many surprises in store…
The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival runs January 21 to February 9, 2020. Follow along on Facebook and Twitter for more info.
Date Night Giveaway
I have a pair of tickets to give away to The Fever along with a $75 gift certificate for dinner at Cibo Trattoria!
Cibo Trattoria serves up authentic Italian cuisine prepared in a traditional manner with ethically sourced, seasonal and local ingredients and showcases rustic elegance on each plate.
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The winner will be able to choose their performance date/time. I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 12:00pm on Thursday, January 23, 2020. UPDATE The winner is Andrea!
The Vancouver Chinatown Spring Festival is celebrating the 47th Vancouver Chinese New Year Parade, which will ring in the Year of the Rat on a Chinese Lunar Calendar. The parade festivities will feature lion dances, cultural dance troupes, marching bands, martial arts performances and much more.
When: Sunday, January 26, 2020 at 11:00am Parade Route: The 1.3-km long route starts at the Millennium Gate on Pender St (between Shanghai Alley and Taylor St), proceeds east along Pender St, turns south onto Gore St, turns west onto Keefer St and then disperses on Keefer at Abbott.
The parade will feature over 70 entries, bringing in over 3,000 participants from various community and cultural groups. The multicultural dance troupes represent the diverse segments of our Canadian cultural heritage such as the Vancouver Police Department Motorcycle Drill Team, marching bands and various community groups. The parade draws over 100,000 spectators along the route each year!
Post-Parade Lion Dances
As a Chinese New Year tradition to promote good fortune for the year, some lions will be visiting the shops and businesses in Chinatown. The lions will perform a celebratory dance at each participating shop to bring good luck and prosperity (2:00pm to 4:00pm).
Vancouver Chinatown Spring Festival – Cultural Fair
By popular demand, the Cultural Fair will be held on both days over the weekend on January 25th and 26th. Enjoy multicultural performances, special lion dance grand finale, martial arts demonstration and more at the Sun Yat-Sen Plaza (50 East Pender St) each day from 2:00pm to 4:00pm.
All of these events are free for all in the community. For more info, follow #vanspringfestival on Twitter and Instagram.
Clear your vehicles, dust off your skates, and perhaps grab your umbrella. A thaw is coming this weekend and if you’re able to get out and about once the snow clears, here are some events to enjoy. It’s also the last weekend of Lights at Lafarge in Coquitlam – this and more things to do in Vancouver this weekend listed below:
