BC musicians
Vancouver: Free downtown concerts ‘bringing music to the streets’
It’s not often that you can watch an outdoor reggae performance, a rap concert and a didgeridoo beatboxing gig all in the same night in Vancouver for free. But you can this Friday. About 20 local buskers will take the stage on Granville Street downtown to showcase their musical talent and artistry between 7 p.m. [...]
Vancouver musicians ready to roll on two-wheel tour
With Thom Yorke predicting the end of the music industry and everybody else pointing to a looming energy crisis, a bunch of local musicians are adapting early to our probable Mad Max–like future. The Malahat Revue takes Jeremy Fisher, Hannah Georgas, Said the Whale, and Victoria’s Aidan Knight on a weeklong tour from Salt Spring [...]
Burnaby composer’s work featured with VSO at Deer Lake on Sunday
From the windows of the Julliard School’s residences in Lincoln Centre—high above the seemingly endless rat race of New York City—you can watch some of the world’s best student musicians and composers race to class. Premier scholars in their field, all looking like tiny ants lugging their cellos, violins and guitars to the lecture halls [...]
Shore’s Song of Summer narrowed to 10 finalists
The Shore 104.3 FM moved one step closer to crowning its official Song of Summer 2010 on Monday when the radio station announced the 10 finalists in its Sounds of Summer contest. The B.C.-centric songwriting competition will award $20,000 in development funds to its winner, which will be announced at the end of July. The [...]
Kelowna: Nominate your favourite B.C. Interior musician or band
Nominations are now open for the B.C. Interior Music Awards to be held in Kelowna on Nov. 5. Whether your favourite musician or band is from the Thompson Okanagan, Columbia Kootenays, Cariboo Central Interior, Similkameen, Boundary, Shuswap or the Peace region, get your nominations in on time. Nominations will be accepted from both fans and [...]
Courtenay: Music and business blend well at conference
The third annual Vancouver Island Music Business Conference (VIMBC) was bigger and better than ever. With about 200 people in attendance, including over 40 panelists, there were four days of workshops, and live music each night. Workshops about radio, songwriting, producing, touring, music laws, and everything in between, were filled with aspiring artists, young and [...]
Denman Island: Songwriting aid offered
Arts Denman presents Veda Hille in concert and in a songwriting workshop. Take a ride through Hille’s eccentric and beautiful world. Drawing on a range of musical projects accomplished over the past few years, indie songwriter Hille’s solo show, Modern, takes on 100-year-old hymns, an opera about pine trees, a musical based on Craigslist ads, [...]
Whistler: West Coast music hits online airways
Forget iTunes, music lovers will soon be able to get their tracks from a far more local source: a brand new public Internet radio station, www.wmn.fm. The online radio station is actually just the first part of the Whistler Media Network – or the WMN – project, a new company created by a group of [...]
Courtenay: In the business of making music
So where will Dan Hill, Sue Medley and Chilliwack’s Bill Henderson be humming and strumming this weekend? Why, the Comox Valley, where the annual Vancouver Island Music Business Conference is taking place. Featuring a host of high-powered panels boasting such heavyweights as Shania Twain and Ozzy Osbourne producer Kevin Churko and Music B.C.’s Bob D’Eith [...]
Merritt: Music In the City pitched to city council
The Merritt Walk of Stars Society is looking for funding from the city to get new music events going on this summer. A $5,000 contribution from the City of Merritt would go towards the $14,000 budget required to start a Music in the City program, starting in July. The vision of the program is to [...]
Nanaimo events planner stirs up Tahsis residents: Ska, metal, reggae and hip-hop artists will perform at summer fest
The sleepy village of Tahsis will be overrun by music fans this August, as a two-day festival dominates the old mill town. The festival, called Pillage at the Village, will be hosted by the village of Tahsis and Bounce Hard Productions, owned and founded by Nanaimo’s Amber McGrath. Juno award-winning artist Bif Naked will headline [...]
New wiki site puts spotlight on Canadian music
The Internet age has helped propel Canadian music into the spotlight in recent years, with everyone from rising superstars such as Drake and Justin Bieber to up-and-coming indie bands getting a boost from online platforms and social networking sites. But fans searching for a central online resource for Canadian music were out of luck until [...]
The lowdown on the Vancouver International Jazz Festival
The TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival (June 25 to July 4) celebrates its silver anniversary this year and, aside from a bigger budget and more venues, in temperament it hasn’t changed a lot from its inaugural year in 1986. It still offers a smorgasbord of music for all tastes: established, big-name acts (George Benson, Chick [...]
You Say Party carries on under new name
Abbotsford, B.C. band You Say Party has dropped the “We Say Die” from their name after the death of drummer Devon Clifford. The dance rockers announced the change on their website Tuesday, saying they have spent several months re-evaluating their future since Clifford’s death. Clifford died of a massive brain hemorrhage after collapsing on stage [...]
Vancouver: The jazz festival brings us together in a shared experience
Celebrating its silver anniversary this year, the Vancouver International Jazz Festival is not even half the age of the venerable Monterey and Newport jazz festivals, but it has gained such prestige in the past 25 years that it stands with them as the best in the world. When it began as part of Expo 86, [...]
