The Cultch to livestream Nicholas Krgovich's This Spring: Songs by Veda Hille record release
Both music artists and longtime friends will take the stage
The Cultch has announced it will host the livestreamed album launch of This Spring: Songs by Veda Hille, a tribute to Hille’s music by Nicholas Krgovich, livestreamed from the Historic Theatre on May 21 at noon and 6 pm.
Well-known Vancouver musicians, Hille and Krgovich first met in the late 1990s. He was a teenager coming to her shows, and the first homemade cassette he gave her was a cover of her Emily Carr songs. The next one was of his own songs, recorded in his living room.
The two became friends, and played on each other's albums over the next 20 years. Late in the pandemic year, Krgovich, a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, confessed that he had once again been covering songs in his living room.
The result is the album This Spring, a radical reimagining of 16 of Hille’s tunes. It resurrects work from three decades of the career of the singer-songwriter, who’s a classically trained pianist and theatre interloper (regularly appearing at the keyboards for the East Van Panto).
To celebrate its release on Tin Angel Records and 7ep, and Krgovich and Hille will play each other's music at The Cultch in two separate live shows.
"I had recently played a show in L.A. where we learned her song 'Plants' and a lot of people came up to me afterwards being like, 'What the heck was that Plants song?,' everyone going to their phones and queueing up 'Veda Hille' on their Spotify accounts,” says Krgovich, whose other albums include On Sunset, The Hills, Real Life, and Pasadena Afternoon. “So, I was just like, 'Wait, that's what I'm gonna do! I'm gonna make a covers album of Veda's songs!' And then that was that, I was off to the races and now it's done and I'm so happy to be able to share it with her and all of you.”
Hille was 2020’s pandemic artist-in-residence at The Cultch, during which she released her own solo album, Little Volcano, with Theatre Replacement.
Tickets are $10, on sale through The Cultch’s Box Office at 604-251-1363 or online here.
This post was sponsored by The Cultch.