Things to Do in Vancouver in June 2017

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In the midst of an exhilarating album launch, Dean Brody brings his brand new album, Beautiful Freakshow, coast to coast through local media appearances, and country radio listener events, culminating in a special live performance in Toronto, to kick-off the announcement of national tour dates, beginning April 2017. On the west ...  »

Rise Above will feature new repertoire and powerful soloists celebrating the uplifting power of singing.  »

The finale in the Mardon Group Insurance Musically Speaking Series Bramwell Tovey serves up an all-Beethoven feast, starring Canada’s own Hoebig-Moroz Trio playing Beethoven’s rarely-performed Triple Concerto. And in a heroic ending to the Musically Speaking series, the orchestra performs Beethoven’s mighty Symphony No. 3. Bramwell Tovey conductor ...  »

LIVE at The WISE is proud to present: The Official South Country Fair West Coast Line-Up Launch! SCF is a community centred camping festival in Fort Macleod, Alberta that will be celebrating it’s 31st year July 21st-23rd, 2017. The mission of South Country Fair has always been to expand ...  »

Wagner's Die Walküre by the Heroic Opera Company, Vancouver, BC. Come and celebrate the inaugural project of the Heroic Opera Company, which will bring the glorious operas of Wagner, Strauss, and Verdi to Vancouver! We have assembled the finest dramatic voices the lower mainland has to offer. Prepare to ...  »

Def Leppard With special guests Poison and Tesla the Band Fresh off winning their fan voted Classic Rock Magazine Album of the Year award, Def Leppard announce they will return to the road this spring for a three month run across North America. The Live Nation promoted outing will storm ...  »

Featuring
Jamal Kurdistani (voice)
Sina Ettehad (kamanche)
Hamin Honari (tombak & tabla)
Alborz Rahmani (tar)  »

Komagata Maru: Performed by composer Neelamjit Dhillon (saxophone, bansuri, tabla)
with Chris Gestrin (piano), Steve Holy (bass) & Dan Gaucher (drums).
Concert 2: Curtis Andrews (mrdangam) & Friends  »

Featuring
Mark McGregor (flutes) & Brian Nesselroad (assorted percussion)
with visiting artist Shawn Mativetsky (tabla)  »

Twice nominated “best jazz clarinetist” in the National Jazz Awards, composer/performer James Danderfer has been performing and recording with some of the finest jazz musicians in North America. James’ film score work includes recent “best Canadian short film” winner “Bedbugs: A Musical Love Story” as well as the upcoming ...  »

Future: Nobody Safe Tour, featuring Future, Migos, Tory Lanez, A$AP Ferg and Zoey Dollaz  »

Music without borders! World percussion, gamelan, & more!
Walk the Wallace Line with the Turtle Bliss
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Feat. visiting artists Chen Zhuo Hui (Chinese percussion), Shawn Metivetsky (tabla), Ziya Tabassian (tombak)  »

Celebrated chant masters Deva Premal & Miten bring their Temple at Midnight tour to Vancouver!
Accompanied by Nepalese bansuri maestro Manose, with Canadian Joby Baker on bass and Danish percussionist Rishi, their unique, spiritually inspired evenings of mantra, song, and chant are treasured by audiences around the planet.  »

Hollerado’s debut album Record In A Bag came out in 2009 and received a Canadian JUNO award nomination for Best New Artist. Their incredible “Americanarama” video garnered over 1.4 Million YouTube views with its forcefully creative approach to video making, and the album spawned the Top 10 radio hits “Americanarama” and “Juliette” ...  »

This is the flagship concert of the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra's 2017 GLOBAL SOUNDSCAPES FESTIVAL, which explores and celebrates the intersection of Canadas resident cultures with musical traditions and instruments from all over the world, through the creation and performance of intercultural music. The festival presents international guest artists and ensembles alongside ...  »

Celebrating the strength and talents of our country, as we commemorate Canadas 150th Birthday.This concert will feature works by Canadian composers and arrangers. From rollicking folksongs from the Maritimes to lush sacred works by iconic composers like Imant Raminsh and Healy Willan.   »

Volcanoes, lightning, conflagrations! PSWE ends the season hot with this elemental program. PACIFIC SYMPHONIC WIND ENSEMBLE Founded in 1981 by conductor Maurice Backun, it was a group of talented wind and percussion players looking for musical challenges that brought the Pacific Symphonic Wind Ensemble (PSWE) into being. Over twenty years later, ...  »

Bramwell Tovey commands the stage in a titanic concert that features extraordinary violinist Baiba Skride, mezzo-soprano Marion Newman, a new composition by Maestro Tovey, and the heroic symphonic masterpiece by Gustav Mahler that was the starting point of Maestro Tovey’s epic Music Directorship with the VSO. Bramwell Tovey conductor ...  »

Music without borders! Chinese percussion, choir & more.
The Sound of Drum with Voice

Feat. Chen Zuohui (Chinese percussion)
with Huyi Choir of the Canada Chinese Performing Arts Society
Han Chinese Music Ensemble
with conductor Jin Zhang  »

Music without borders! Featuring Vancouver's Fringe Percussion Quartet.
These concerts are part of the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra's 2017 GLOBAL SOUNDSCAPES FESTIVAL, which explores and celebrates the intersection of Canadas resident cultures with musical traditions and instruments from all over the world, through the creation and performance of intercultural music. The festival ...  »

A collaboration of members of Vancouvers Vashaan and Diba Persian music ensembles. This is a two-part concert in the traditional modes of Dashti and Nava and it will be the Canadian debut of Iranian vocalist, Mahbobeh Golzari. The ensemble is a unique sextet which revolves around the ancient sound of ...  »

HELLYEAH’s previous album, 2014’s Blood for Blood, was the album metal fans and critics were waiting for HELLYEAH to make, based on the revered metal pedigree of the individual members. Such an artistic achievement—the album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hard Rock album chart— meant the band ...  »

CKY got its start when Deron Miller and Jess Margera got together and formed the band Foreign Objects back in 1994. Two years later, they started oiL with their UPS co-worker Ryan Bruni and began laying tracks that would eventually turn into CKY tracks. Chad Ginsburg joined as a guitarist and ...  »

Tarrus Riley is among the leading ambassadors of modern day Reggae Music in Jamaica. The singer’s commanding vocals, intuitive lyrics and vibrant personality have combined to create a formidable artiste with authentic credentials in Reggae music. Being the son of veteran reggae singer Jimmy Riley his venture into music ...  »

Tool is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1990, the group's line-up includes drummer Danny Carey, guitarist Adam Jones, and vocalist Maynard James Keenan  »

Giving Voice Concert hosted by the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art, Christ Church Cathedral and Sister Says. Curated by Sister Says, this all ages show combines a variety of musical styles including soul, blues, atmospheric, and hip-hop for a truly unique evening. This event invites people of all ...  »

Persian Music Concert with guest singer Mahbobeh Golzari. A collaboration of members of Vancouvers Vashaan and Diba Persian music ensembles. This is a two-part concert in the traditional modes of Dashti and Nava and it will be the Canadian debut of Iranian vocalist, Mahbobeh Golzari. The ensemble is a unique ...  »

Rock legend Eric Burdon and his British invasion band The Animals will be performing at the Molson Canadian Theatre at Hard Rock Casino Vancouver on Saturday, June 17, 2017. Hailed by Rolling Stone as one of the “100 Greatest Voices of All Time,” the founder and frontman for The Animals took the music ...  »

The Roedde House Classical Series presents 'Solo Flight' featuring Nancy DiNovo (Violin).  »

NOW Toronto reviewer Susan G. Cole wrote of Raitt’s 2016 tour stop at Sony Centre, “it was exhilarating to see her swagger onto the stage before a packed house, confident, relaxed and ready to play her axe like a virtuoso. Whether she was deploying her bottleneck or finger picking on ...  »

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ newly announced North American tour will come to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre June 22. The 19-date tour will make its way across the continent and will conclude June 29 at Los Angeles’ historic Greek Theatre. The band were last in North America in 2014 with critical response ...  »

Critics and audiences agree, NY-based writer, actor and standup comedian Michael Che is a star on the rise. Having been named one of Rolling Stone’s “50 Funniest People,” Buzzfeed’s “50 Hottest Men in Comedy,” and Variety’s “Top 10 Comics To Watch,” he is quickly leaving his mark on the media ...  »

North American audiences may know Brazilian singer/songwriter/guitarist Seu Jorge best for his film roles. He appeared in City of God, a film that put an international spotlight on favela life, poverty, and violence, and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, the Wes Anderson film that featured Jorge as ...  »

 Though there’s actually six of them, Jurassic 5 got everything else right on their self-titled debut EP. Part of the new underground rap of the late ’90s (along with Company Flow, Mos Def, Dr. Octagon, and Sir Menelik), the sextet — rappers Marc 7even, Chali 2na, Zaakir, and Akil, plus producers ...  »

Conceived in Mexico City and born in a Brooklyn warehouse in 1997, Antibalas is rooted in Afrobeat, but thoroughly flexible. Their live shows are the stuff of legend—hot, sweaty, dance marathons set to a tight, infectious groove. Lead singer Amayo, a native of Lagos, Nigeria and a senior Kung Fu ...  »

Led by vocalist Julia Úlehla and guitarist Aram Bajakian (Lou Reed, John Zorn, Diana Krall), the “utterly captivating” (Vancouver Sun) Dálava takes Czech folk melodies transcribed over 100 years ago by Úlehla’s botanist/ethnomusicologist great-grandfather, Dr. Vladimir Úlehla, and places them in a compelling contemporary context. Cinematic and wide-ranging, ...  »

Three-time GRAMMY-nominated saxophonist/composer Donny McCaslin’s group collaborated on David Bowie’s masterful final album, Blackstar, matching its rugged, versatile, and “relentlessly intriguing” (NME) sound to Bowie’s immense artistry, generosity of spirit, and outright fearlessness. McCaslin’s “powerful left-field New York jazz band” (The Guardian) features Jason Lindner ...  »

Fiery and festive, “this is hip-hop at its finest—a giddy, funky pass-the-mic throwdown, with smiles all around.”—Montreal Gazette Music without borders! Reflecting Canada’s vibrant cultural diversity, the nine-member Montreal collective Nomadic Massive combines groove-infused live instrumentation, omnivorous cross-genre sampling, and next-level poetics… in five languages! With their ...  »

Choral music conveys so many different emotions, so lets celebrate them all! The “Four Lewis Carroll Songs” by Composer-in-Residence Karen P. Thomas brim over with whimsy. Alice Parkers “Johnny I hardly knew ye” mimics war instruments to tell a tragic tale. The “Three Shakespeare Songs” of Ralph Vaughan Williams plumb ...  »

“If one of the major compositional decisions for an improviser is choosing your partners, then Canadian drummer Nick Fraser shows himself to be a master of the form.”—New York City Jazz Record The JUNO Award-winning Torontonian’s compositions and group improvisations are intense journeys into the unknown, “moving synchronously ...  »

A truly engaging talent like Blue Note artist Kandace Springs is timeless and undeniable. As The Guardian said in a four-star review, “she has a rare ability that can’t be taught—to sound like an old soul, just doing what comes naturally.” The Nashville-based singer/songwriter/pianist makes warm ...  »

A dance floor-igniting preacher of love Omar Souleyman brings his “irresistible, hyperactive electronica” (The Guardian) to Vancouver for a night of undulating synths, intense beats, and hip-shaking sensory overload! An unlikely cult hero among electronic connoisseurs like Modeselektor, Gilles Peterson, and Four Tet (who produced his breakthrough album Wenu Wenu), ...  »

“One of the most exciting bands on the planet today!”—Jazzwise Dizzying odd-metre grooves, breakneck time changes, and breathtaking, top-of-the-rollercoaster group interplay are in abundance as Danish bassist Jasper Høiby’s fierce and muscular playing leads this UK-based trio—which has been dubbed “the most exciting and imaginative piano ...  »

Currently calling Nashville home, Australian guitar master Tommy Emmanuel draws out the full emotional range and power of his instrument, pulling inspiration from perfect imperfections and intrepid improvisations. A multiple-Grammy nominee, perennial Guitar Player magazine favourite, and Member of the Order of Australia, Emmanuel is one of only five musicians ...  »

It takes all of 10 seconds to understand the appeal of Jacob Whitesides. For starters, there’s the easy smile, that roguishly furrowed brow, but all of that would be nothing without the rest. His voice— with just the right amount of grit—is perfectly matched to his oeuvre of sometimes-soaring, ...  »

As cerebral as Ziggy Marley can be with his songwriting, his performances succeed on his physical enthusiasm as much as they do on provocative content. Couple that with a band that is dynamic and sure at every turn, and what emerges is two hours of pulsating, heart-pumping elation.” —JamBands.com ...  »

Led by Canadian jazz giants Ingrid Jensen trumpet/effects and Christine Jensen saxophone, Infinitude has the “rare distinction of being able to simultaneously combine tranquility with rhythmic vibrancy, coalescing in a near hypnotic fusion of tone and colour. A rare delight” (AllAboutJazz). Few talents could reckon with the concept of ...  »

Perch Hen Brock & Rain is a unique combination of two long-time creative duos. Dutch trailblazers Ab Baars (Ken Vandermark) tenor sax/clarinet/shakuhachi and Ig Henneman (Misha Mengelberg) viola, and dynamic New York all-stars Ingrid Laubrock (Mary Halvorson) tenor & soprano sax and Tom Rainey (Tim Berne) drums “converse ...  »

With decades of acclaimed work to his credit, and accolades ranging from “one of the most elegant singer-songwriters of his generation” (The New York Times) to “one of the few truly great roots-rock troubadours left” (Entertainment Weekly), Prisoner—Ryan Adams’ first album of all new original material since 2014’s Ryan ...  »

“There’s just no way not to like Cyrus Chestnut.”—AllMusic First call pianist for the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band and both The Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestras, Cyrus Chestnut absorbed years of experience as a sideman with Betty Carter, Wynton Marsalis, and scores of other great players ...  »

Newly formed Bokanté is the brainchild of Snarky Puppy founder Michael League. Trading in his bass for baritone guitar in this group, League brings together eight musicians from four continents to create a diverse ensemble rich in groove, melody and soul. The band’s debut album, Strange Circles (GroundUP Music), ...  »

“This is serious music that puts a massive grin on your face—and Collier should rightly have the world at his feet in years to come.”—JazzWise Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, and k.d. lang are big fans of young phenom Jacob Collier, and once you hear his virtuosic, multi-layered ...  »

“If you think you can imagine what piano, drums, and two trumpets will sound like, think again.”―KPFA Radio Melodic beauty, provocative abstraction, and confrontational fire: KAZE is free jazz at its most creative and powerful. The Japanese/French quartet shares boundless energy and enthusiasm, an insatiable appetite for sonic ...  »

NEA Jazz Master, renowned GRAMMY Award-winning saxophonist Branford Marsalis is one of the most revered instrumentalists of his time. Leader of one of the finest jazz quartets today, and a frequent soloist with classical ensembles, Branford has become increasingly sought after as a featured soloist with such acclaimed orchestras as ...  »

Squarepusher’s Tom Jenkinson can’t seem to sit still. Following 2010’s recording titled Squarepusher Presents Shobaleader One, he’s turned the project into a genuine band, with Jenkinson on bass, plus three musicians going by the names Strobe Nazard, Company Laser, and Arg Nution, taking on keyboards, drums, and ...  »

NEA Jazz Master, renowned Grammy Award-winning saxophonist Branford Marsalis is one of the most revered instrumentalists of his time. Leader of one of the finest jazz quartets today, and a frequent soloist with classical ensembles, Branford has become increasingly sought after as a featured soloist with such acclaimed orchestras as ...  »

ArtistsClaudia Quintet For over 20 years in their longstanding, preternaturally attuned lineup, Claudia Quintet has bridged modern jazz, chamber, and new music in consistently inventive ways. Drummer/bandleader John Hollenbeck’s compositions are full of clarity, nuance, and space. But the sound of Claudia Quintet is equally about Hollenbeck’s compositional ...  »

Christian McBride calls multifaceted pianist/composer Emmet Cohen “one of the most dynamic young musicians on the scene today.” Elegant introspection, neo-classical flourishes, and bravura bebop chops that are “guaranteed to make the walls sweat” (WGBO)—this young superstar has it all! Ron Carter is a living legend and the ...  »

“Kurt Rosenwinkel’s music is the sound of the future—just like bebop once was.”— Chicago Tribune “One of modern jazz’s most versatile string men” (The Observer), guitarist/vocalist Kurt Rosenwinkel has collaborated with Brad Mehldau, Brian Blade, and Eric Clapton, who referred to Kurt as “a genius.” His ...  »

Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, aka Thievery Corporation, have thrived for 20 years without a radio hit, a big budget video, or major label backing. Regardless, TC has managed to do high-profile TV appearances, sell millions of albums, and continue to expand the fan base worldwide. They’ve collaborated with such ...  »