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Friends of Chamber Music welcomes dazzling Esmé Quartet to Vancouver

The performance is part of the Germany-based Korean ensemble’s first North American tour

MUSICJanet SmithMarch 11, 2022Friends of Chamber Music, Partner Content, Music, SPRING

Vancouver drummer Ben Brown makes music out of public art with Sound Sculptures

The musician’s free performances give new life to artworks at local parks

MUSICGail JohnsonSeptember 6, 2021Homepage feature, Music, Vancouver New Music, Ben Brown, public art

Musician of Amis heritage finds parallels between Indigenous experiences in Taiwan and Canada

Struck by Kent Monkman’s paintings, Suana Emuy Cilangasay incorporates some of the Cree artist’s paintings into new video for TAIWANfest 2021

FESTS, MUSICGail JohnsonSeptember 3, 2021Fests, Music, TAIWANfeset, Indigenous

Queer Arts Festival's Language as a Virus takes storytelling in radical directions, to August 13

The sonic-art installation from artist Bobbi Kozinuk explores how the pandemic has affected queer and diverse communities

Vancouver Pride Festival’s Symphonic Pride features music exclusively by queer composers, July 30

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra performs works by Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky, Rodney Sharman, Aaron Copland, and more

Alpha Yaya Diallo, Mr. Fantastic, the Boom Booms, and more perform at Vancouver's African Descent Festival, July 17 and 18

The seventh annual event celebrates cultural diversity, rejuvenates the spirit of Hogan’s Alley

FESTSGail JohnsonJuly 14, 2021Music, fests

Cuban-Canadian singer-songwriter Alex Cuba plays live locally, July 14, 15, and 18

Drawing on jazz, pop soul, and rock, the B.C. artist has multiple JUNO, Grammy, and Latin Grammy nods to his name

MUSICGail JohnsonJuly 14, 2021Music

VSO wraps up Chamberfest with Mozart's Clarinet Quintet, Böhme Brass Sextet, now streaming

Tacofino, Takenaka, Old Country Pierogi among the mobile eateries setting up at Shop the Block—Brentwood Market

Vancouver disability-led Opera Mariposa raises awareness of chronic illnesses, to June 1

Local opera company partners with arts organizations, businesses to support the Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Fibromyalgia (ME|FM) Society of BC

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonMay 25, 2021What's Stirring, opera, Opera Mariposa, disability, Music

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 things to know about String Quintets That Rock

Violist Emilie Grimes performs in Vetta Chamber Music’s virtual concert featuring works by Mozart and Brahms

MUSICStir VancouverApril 10, 2021Music, Vetta Chamber Music, Emilie Grimes

Stir Q&A: Pianist Jane Coop on being a Steinway Artist, the thrill of the piano, and livestreaming

The artist has upcoming performances with Vancouver Symphony Orchestra as well as with Vetta Chamber Music

MUSICGail JohnsonApril 3, 2021Music, Vetta Chamber Music, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, VSO, Jane Coop

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 things to know about VSO's Measha Brueggergosman Sings Mahler

The acclaimed Canadian soprano performs in a virtual concert that also features work by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

MUSICGail JohnsonMarch 30, 2021Music, VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Measha Brueggergosman

String Quintets That Rock is a string player's dream concert

Vetta Chamber Music presents a thrilling program of Brahms and Mozart

Stir VancouverMarch 25, 2021Partner Content, Vetta Chamber Music, Music

Sound and taste: Lobe Studio and Bar Gobo team up to offer a sensory date night

The writer from the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations cites Stephen King as an influence

CULINARY, MUSICGail JohnsonMarch 23, 2021Culinary, Wine, Andrea Carlson, Bar Gobo, Lobe Studio, Music, Homepage feature

VSO streams an Afternoon of Mendelssohn, starting March 28

The virtual concert features David Lakirovich and his 1920 Stefano Scarampella violin

MUSICGail JohnsonMarch 22, 2021Music, What's Stirring, VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Music to our ears: 3 places to hear musicians playing live in Vancouver right now

The Keefer Yard, Cardero’s, and the Sandbar have brought live music back

CULINARY, MUSIC, DRINKGail JohnsonMarch 20, 2021Music, Culinary, live music, the Keefer, Cardero's, the Sandbar

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 things to know about Painting Music: One-Page Score Project

Vancouver New Music and Laboratorio team up for a new edition the graphic-score series, this one from the Sunshine Coast world of glacial forms and live plants.

ART & DESIGN, MUSICGail JohnsonMarch 10, 2021Music, Vancouver New Music, Laboratorio

Bassist Jodi Proznick brings joy of jazz to Vetta Chamber Music—and aims to get more women in the field

Tango Klezmer Jazz is a new virtual concert featuring four of Canada’s leading female musicians

MUSICGail JohnsonMarch 5, 2021Music, Vetta Chamber Music, Jodi Proznick, jazz

Rollicking sailors’ songs come to life in Shanties!, a digital concert by Chor Leoni and La Nef

The rousing performance helps explain why #ShantyTok is a thing

MUSICGail JohnsonMarch 4, 2021Music, Chor Leoni

Applications open for Vancouver Music Fund, supporting Indigenous, Black, and other underrepresented artists

City of Vancouver, Creative BC provide $300,000 for emerging, diverse voices in the music sector

NEWS, MUSICGail JohnsonMarch 3, 2021News, Music, City of Vancouver, Creative BC

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