Cultural Olympiad
The Vancouver Recital Society does its part in the Cultural Olympiad with a concert by two of the best young classical musicians in the province. Seventeen-year-old violinist Jonathan Chan (shown here) and 21-year-old pianist Marnie Hauschildt, both of them national award winners, appear Sunday (February 10) at West Vancouver’s Kay Meek Centre (1700 Mathers Avenue) in a 3 p.m. program featuring works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Frédéric Chopin, and César Auguste Franck. Tickets are available at 604-602-0363.

WinterSong Festival
The third annual WinterSong Festival gets rolling Friday (February 8) with a big, diverse slate of music focused on the human voice. Highlights at the Kay Meek Centre (1700 Mathers Avenue, West Vancouver) include Friday’s festival-launching gala with acclaimed jazz singer Dee Daniels, as well as a Saturday (February 9) show featuring acoustic-guitar-plucking singer-songwriters Roy Forbes and Connie Kaldor. Meanwhile, a second venue—way up on Cypress Mountain and cohosted by the Cultural Olympiad—will showcase genre-mashing band Mother Mother on Saturday (February 9) and Rock Star: INXS runner-up Suzie McNeil (shown here) on both Saturday and Sunday (February 9 and 10), among others. The festival runs until February 17; see www.wintersong.ca/ for details.