18 Vancouver concerts this weekend, February 12 to 14

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      FRIDAY: Vancouver-based David Bowie tribute band Moonage Daydream plays the Fairview Pub, with Rock'n'Roll Circus and Runnin' Down a Dream.

      FRIDAY: Canadian electronic-dance duo Adventure Club plays the Commodore, with guests Vanic.

      FRIDAY: Vancouver percussionist Sal Ferreras and his band Drum Heat play the Surrey Arts Centre, with proceeds to Arts Umbrella Surrey.

      FRIDAY: folk trio BTU (Barney Bentall, Tom Taylor, Shari Ulrich) launches new album Tightrope Walk at the Cultch.

      FRIDAY: Canadian indie trio Belle Starr plays Coquitlam's Evergreen Cultural Centre.

      FRIDAY: DJs Nikki Nevver and Vanessa Turner play music from the 1990s at the Astoria Pub.

      FRIDAY: American rapper Sporting LIfe plays the Fortune Sound Club, with guests Evy Jane and Wsuptiger.

      FRIDAY: Vancouver soul-jazz vocalist Dawn Pemberton coheadlines the Fox Cabaret with NYC-born blues-soul vocalist-guitarist Cécile Doo-Kingué.

      SATURDAY: Canadian dance band Side One plays the Boots & Babes Ball at the Commodore.

      SATURDAY: Vancouver polka-punk band the Dreadnoughts plays the Rickshaw, with guests the Skimmity Hitchers, ATD, the Generators, Uptown Riot, and Obscene Being.

      SATURDAY: American jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis plays Chan Centre with his quartet.

      SATURDAY: the Victoria BC Ska Society presents American rock/R&B legend Booker T. Jones at the Vogue Theatre.

      SATURDAY: local saloon-funk band EHM Sky Patrol plays an album-release party at the Biltmore, with guests the Great Speckled Fritillary and Anni M Fables.

      SATURDAYGet Together at the Pacific Coliseum features music by trance artist Armin Van Buuren, along with Sander Van Doorn, Will Sparks, Sunnery James Ryan Marciano, and Union DJ's.

      SATURDAY: virtuoso acoustic-guitar groups MG3 and the California Guitar Trio play Burnaby's Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.

      SUNDAY: the Giggle Dam Band, Intoxicated By Nature, Pop Junkies, Worms Hate Rain, Trailer Park Playboys, Ray Roper Project, the Vindicators, Bang!, Heavy Mellow with Steven Jack, and Metropolis perform at Rock for Kids 2016, a daytime benefit concert for Variety–the Children's Charity.

      SUNDAY: singer-songwriter Gerphil Flores performs an evening of soft classical, Broadway and crossover music at West Van's Kay Meek Centre.

      SUNDAY: Coastal Jazz & Blues Society presents a Valentine's Day dinner and jazz show at Frankie's featuring Canadian vocalists Karin Plato and Laura Crema.

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