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It's best not to describe an enigma. You can circle cautiously around it, if you will: pick it up in your hands, take snapshots, survey every angle. But if what you're...
No one was surprised by the outpouring of grief and regret that followed the death of local rockabilly and western-swing veteran Ray Condo: the musician, who died of heart...
Doing Cool-Groovy On Jazz Thing With Help From Lenny Breau, The Guitarist May Be An Artist Reborn The drummer was late. Mind you, the drummer was always late, but this was...
COPE's Jim Green also had other news for members of Vancouver's music community. It seems that long-awaited changes to civic bylaws restricting the performance of live music...
At GM Place on Friday, May 7 Allow me to be vague. Allow me to be polite. And allow me to reserve judgment, for I'm not at all sure what I heard from Diana Krall at GM...
It was "name that tune" time at an audiophile friend's house, and I was stumped. The music emanating from his meticulously rebuilt Dynaco speakers sounded somewhat familiar,...
Text, music, and direction by Heiner Goebbels. A Vancouver New Music presentation. At the Vancouver Playhouse on Saturday, May 8 On every level--technical, philosophical,...
Astronaut-Photographer Roberta Bondar Brings Beautiful Images Of Earth To The Phoenix Chamber Choir's 20th-Birthday Party Swirling with turquoise seas and pearly cloud...
It's been a busy spring for John Oliver, and not only musically. When I reach the guitarist at his Vancouver home, he's just come in from working on his garden, and he's got...
It is a lovely day to be having tea and cheesecake with Christie Grace: we're sitting on the patio of a Bowen Island bakery-café as ravens call overhead and a soft breeze...

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