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Music on Main and the Roundhouse launch Vancouver's inaugural BIG BANG Festival, February 16

Event designed specifically for youth features hands-on activities, surprise performances, and mini concerts by local and international artists

FESTS, MUSICJanet SmithDecember 17, 2024Music on Main, Roundhouse Community Centre, BIG BANG Festival

Local artist Amanda Sum makes her Music on Main debut in Music for the Winter Solstice

The theatre artist and singer-songwriter joins pianist Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa, violinist Karen Gerbrecht, and cellist Olivia Blander in the beloved annual seasonal concert

Holiday shows 2024: Stir’s ultimate guide to festive fare, from musical theatre to classical ballet

Seasonal standouts include a massive choral Messiah, and different takes on A Christmas Carol—including one with 10-foot-high puppets

Music on Main hosts beloved annual concert Music for the Winter Solstice, December 11 and 12

Winter tradition at the Heritage Hall promises enchanting music by pianist Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa and vocalist Amanda Sum

Flat Earth Society Orchestra creates rich counterpoint of high art and low comedy

Surrealism is a major influence on the Belgian big band coming to Vancouver courtesy Music on Main

MUSICJanet SmithOctober 28, 2024Music on Main, Flat Earth Society Orchestra

Flat Earth Society plays an innovative HearSee show at Music on Main, November 3

Belgium-based big band mixes traditional brass music with innovative, energetic jazz, alongside a variety of film projections

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 9, 2024Partner Content, Music on Main, MUSIC ON MAIN, Music On Main

Music on Main's joyous Summer Pop-Up Concerts take over Mount Pleasant Park, August 19 to 21

Performances by the Qing Ensemble, Microcosmos Quartet, and M’Girl are in store, along with nosh from food trucks Planted and Dos Amigos

MUSICJanet SmithAugust 15, 2024Music on Main, Summer 2024

The Kessler Academy 2024 takes to the Annex stage, August 10

The Microcosmos Quartet will join the string orchestra made up of young players

Music review: Basement dressing rooms and stairwell balconies as The Tempest Project reinvents a classical concert

Music on Main’s latest creation led by David Pay guides audiences throughout the entirety of the Vancouver Playhouse for intimate performances in unexpected places

MUSICJanet SmithJuly 19, 2024Music on Main, David Pay, Shakespeare, Vancouver Civic Theatres, Summer 2024

The Tempest Project guides audiences through a roving Shakespeare concert at the Vancouver Playhouse

In the Music on Main show, listeners follow a cast of musicians around the venue as they perform a diverse Bard-inspired score conceived by David Pay

MUSICJanet SmithJuly 10, 2024Music on Main, Shakespeare, Summer 2024

Music review: Vicky Chow transfixes sold-out crowd with Book 2 of Philip Glass’s Études for solo piano

Concert marked another successful milestone in the pianist’s longstanding relationship with Music on Main

MUSICJanet SmithMay 29, 2024Music on Main, Vicky Chow, Philip Glass

Pianist Vicky Chow finds freedom in “therapeutic” Philip Glass Études

Acclaimed Brooklyn-based musician returns to perform Book 2 of the composer’s works for solo piano in Music on Main concert on May 28

MUSICJanet SmithMay 21, 2024Music on Main, MUSIC ON MAIN, Vicky Chow, piano

Pianist Vicky Chow performs Philip Glass's Piano Etudes, Book 2 at Music on Main, May 28

Vancouver-raised, New York-based musician returns to the Christ Church Cathedral after a sold-out performance of Book 1 last spring

MUSICStir VancouverMay 1, 2024Partner Content, Music on Main, Vicky Chow

For Dior Quartet, different backgrounds come together in perfect harmony

Appearing with Music on Main, string group jumps from Romanticism through Impressionism and on to the ultra-modern

MUSICJanet SmithMarch 1, 2024MUSIC ON MAIN, Music on Main

Pianist Timo Andres blends Ellington with an array of American classical pieces, at Music on Main

Aaron Copland, Philip Glass, and other works sit easily with “Duke”’s, as Month of Tuesdays launches

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 8, 2024Music on Main, MUSIC ON MAIN

With Inheritances, Adam Tendler mines fraught father-son relationship through piano

Music on Main and PuSh Festival present moving solo concert that began with a surprise envelope of cash and a desire to process loss

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 18, 2024Homepage feature, Music on Main, MUSIC ON MAIN, PuSh Festival

Cascading sand and warbling strings: A few standout moments from 2023's stage and gallery scene

Random memorable scenes from the year in arts span 50 dancers swirling in BOLERO X, a powerful Julius Caesar speech, and a cello star’s finale with local string students