Guitar Wall (Independent)
The Portuguese (and their Brazilian cousins) have a word for it: saudade. And while I suppose that’s a little like the French tristesse, there’s no exact...
Choreographed by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar. A Carte Blanche production, presented by DanceHouse. At the Vancouver Playhouse on Saturday, March 23. No remaining performances
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A sunny spring afternoon might not be the best day to think about leaving Vancouver, but local musician, producer, and roots-music sparkplug Steve Dawson’s mind is made up: he’s...
“People talk about playing with the best, but I know that in rock ’n’ roll, I’ll never play with Keith Richards,” says local drummer Kenton Loewen, on the line from his Vancouver...
Leslie Dala isn’t going to play favourites with Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner, but he does admit that one of the two did have an especially significant role in his musical...
Choreographed by Margie Gillis with Holly Bright, Marc Daigle, and Paola Styron. A Vancouver International Dance Festival presentation. At the Vancouver Playhouse on Saturday,...
If hearing some of the most nuanced choral singing in the city isn’t enough to get you out to one of musica intima’s 20th-anniversary concerts this weekend, consider that the...
In this age of super-compressed radio hits and speedy dance-floor bangers, Hobson’s Choice offers a different kind of pleasure: the quiet sensuality of three acoustic instruments...
By Simon Garfield. Gotham, 464 pp, hardcover
Among the many pleasures of historian Simon Garfield’s cartographic study On the Map are its endpapers, which depict the subway...
By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A Vancouver Opera production. At the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Saturday, March 9. Continues on March 12, 14, 16, and 17
At The Gathering, the cutting-...
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