Review: Circle Game is perfection
Setting expectations may be the biggest key to your enjoyment of Circle Game.
Is it musical theatre? Not really, as it lacks a cohesive narrative. Is...
Vancouver Opera returns to a full year of programming in its next season
With the inaugural Vancouver Opera Festival still in full swing, Vancouver Opera has announced it will present a full year of programming in addition to its...
Inaugural Vancouver Opera Festival features a trio of new productions
Three new opera productions are at the centre of the inaugural Vancouver Opera Festival.
“At the core of our sixteen-day festival are three fantastic new productions,...
musica intima appoints longtime vocalist as new artistic manager
Vocalist and music educator Siri Olesen has been named the new artistic manager at musica intima, the Vancouver vocal chamber ensemble specialising in contemporary...
Otto Tausk to take over for Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s 100th anniversary season
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) will have a new leader at the rostrum next summer as Otto Tausk becomes its music director, just in time...
Frank Zappa meets Varèse and Oswald at this year’s PuSh Festival
Ask pretty much any contemporary musician who their musical influences are and their answers are usually instantly recognizable. Depending on the genre it can...
Jerry Granelli tells tales of A Charlie Brown Christmas
Which of Charles Schulz’s Peanuts gang do you identify with? Charlie Brown? Lucy? Or maybe even Snoopy? It comes as no surprise that musician...
In search of 100 guitarists
At first glance it may sound like a world record attempt, but Vancouver’s Music on Main and the Redshift Music Society are not looking...
Things are looking up for the Mission Folk Music Festival
The Mission Folk Music Festival is celebrating an impressive 29 years in 2016, but the long-running showcase of folk, world, and roots music almost...
Review: Return to Grace will knock your socks off
Elvis is in the building.
Return to Grace, a new Canadian production that follows Elvis’s rise to glory, has some incredible talent, and many in the...
