The Western Front : New Music : VOICE OVER mind Festival
A few days late posting this. VOICE OVER mind is a new biennial festival, debuting in May 2010, which responds to audiencesʼ growing appetite for unusual singers and extreme vocalists. via The Western Front : New Music : VOICE OVER mind Festival.
Up next: The 2010 Vancouver International Jazz Festival
The Cultural Olympiad is over (but not forgotten!) and it’s time to start turning to the city’s next major jazz event, the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival celebrating its 25th anniversary (how did that happen?). Let’s unravel the shows that have been announced so far .. Friday June 25 – Classic Sounds at The Centre [...]
Winterruption 2010
Hard to believe but the mid-winter arts interjection Winterruption is celebrating its 5th year on Granville Island this year. And with the whole city in the midst of celebrations, the festival has expanded to 8 days of activities with lots of free and inexpensively ticketed events. The Club 2010 series at Performance Works takes the [...]
Anthony Braxton 12+1tet and The Sonic Genome in Vancouver
Anthony Braxton has a singular and unique musical vision. Braxton’s resume is enough to give mere mortals an inferiority complex. Braxton was an early member of the AACM along with Muhal Richard Abrams and The Art Ensemble of Chicago. His body of compositions is massive with music for his own groups, piano music, operas, a [...]
Special Christmas Eve Jazz Vespers concert at St. Andrew’s-Wesley
On Christmas Eve three of the finest women vocalists in the lower Mainland will present a special Jazz Vespers concert at St. Andrew’s-Wesley. Karin Plato, Jennifer Scott, and Kate Hammett-Vaughan will offer their gift to the city–an hour of holiday treats ranging from traditional carols to popular tunes, each song especially arranged to blend perfectly [...]
Hear It NOW 2009: L.E.D. by the Light
After decades at the heart of Vancouver’s creative music scene, the NOW Orchestra continues to evolve – this year transforming into Orkestra Futura to be launched this week in a special global performance, anchored at the newly refurbished Vancouver East Cultural Centre. This Saturday November 28, Orkestra Futura (formerly the NOW Orchestra) performs the Mad [...]
Duke Ellington’s Sacred Music
In his autobiography Music Is My Mistress speaking about his Concert of Sacred Music Duke Ellington stated “I regard this concert as the most important thing that I have ever done.“ From the date of the first performance in September of 1965, Duke Ellington traveled the world performing what eventually became three Sacred Concerts but [...]
Live recording at the Cellar this weekend
Friday/Saturday and Sunday, Tix $15 / students no cover on Sunday! This weekend is gonna be a fun one at The Cellar. Tenor saxophonist Steve Kalestad has put together a band featuring some of he peers and old teachers. The group features JESSE CAHILL on drums, JODI PROZNICK on bass, KEVIN DEAN on trumpet and [...]
Vancouver International Jazz Festival 2009
The curtain has been pulled back a little farther on this year’s jazz festival lineup with the announcement of the series at the Centre for the Performing Arts. Looks like it’s going to be another action-packed fest: Friday June 26th 2009: David Sanborn plus The Sojourners With his recent “Here and Gone”, David Sanborn has [...]
SF Jazz Collective
San Francisco Jazz Collective Ran into a friend the other day (another music nut) and we started chatting – I asked him, “Hey are you going to see Dave Douglas next week?” “Dave Douglas? Where’s he playing?” “He’s playing with Joe Lovano and Miguel Zenón, that alto player who was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Genius [...]
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