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Review: Graveyards and Gardens grows new rhythms in its live rendition, via vocoders, violas, and clicking lamps

Caroline Shaw and Vanessa Goodman play with the tension between the human and the mechanical

Chor Leoni’s VanMan Summit Concert highlights over 200 voices on May 13

Men’s choir unites tenors, basses, and baritones for celebratory conclusion to week-long festival

MUSICStir VancouverApril 13, 2023Partner Content, CHOR LEONI, VanMan Choral Summit

Vancouver Folk Music Festival announces 2023 early-bird tickets now on sale; provides sneak peek at lineup

Among the confirmed artists are Celeigh Cardinal, Susan O’Neill, Blick Bassy, and Las Cafeteras

FESTS, MUSICGail JohnsonApril 13, 2023Vancouver Folk Music Festival

Juno-winning Florian Hoefner Trio brings modern jazz to BlueShore at CapU, April 18

Ensemble will perform songs off of acclaimed album Desert Bloom

WHAT'S STIRRING, MUSICGail JohnsonApril 13, 2023BlueShore at CapU, jazz, Spring 2023

See Vetta Chamber Music’s Wartime Masterpieces in concert, April 28 to May 1

Program will feature music from composers whose lives were impacted by war

MUSICStir VancouverApril 12, 2023Partner Content, Vetta Chamber Music

George Hinchcliffe’s Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain puts "outsider instrument" to everything from Bach to punk to bebop

The plucky project, coming to Vancouver Recital Society, has confounded expectations and toured the world for almost 40 years now

Grammy nominee Anoushka Shankar to return to the Chan Centre, where rising star Hania Rani will make Vancouver debut

Shankar is a revered sitar player; Rani is a Polish pianist-vocalist-composer

MUSICGail JohnsonApril 11, 2023Chan Centre, Jarrett Martineau

Union representing stagehands, theatre techs employed by Vancouver Symphony Orchestra files historic 72-hour strike notice

IATSE Local 118 files notice for first time in its history, says VSO stage employees have been without a contract since June 2022

MUSIC, NEWSGail JohnsonApril 11, 2023Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, IATSE, VSO

The Birds Concert flutters to life at Early Music Vancouver on April 21

Program from France’s La Rêveuse features compositions reminiscent of birdsong

MUSICStir VancouverApril 11, 2023Partner Content, EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVER

Pianist Tomasz Ritter brings his passion for period instruments to Vancouver Chopin Society

Polish star will play Beethoven, Schubert, and, of course, Chopin on a faithful copy of an 1819 Conrad Graf piano

Early Music Vancouver launches new emerging artist competition May 1 to 15

Those 30 years of age or younger can apply from around the world

NEWS, MUSICJanet SmithApril 11, 2023EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVER, Early Music Vancouver

Dory Hayley sings George Aperghis’s Récitations at Vancouver New Music, April 22

Collection of 14 works is a challenging masterpiece of contemporary solo vocal writing

MUSICStir VancouverApril 11, 2023Partner Content, VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC

Stir Bedside Table: Jill Barber

The East Vancouver singer-songwriter-musician talks Bad Cree: A Novel, Catcher in the Rye, and more

MUSIC, READGail JohnsonApril 10, 2023BC books, Stir Bedside Table, Jill Barber, The Cultch, music, books

Danish String Quartet's daring Doppelgänger pairs old and new music

Coming to Vancouver, the Grammy-nominated ensemble combines world premieres by contemporary composers with late major chamber works by Schubert

UBC honours Elektra Women’s Choir artistic director Morna Edmundson with honorary degree

The conductor, who also leads EnChor Choir, is recognized for setting a standard of excellence

MUSICGail JohnsonApril 7, 2023Elektra Women's Choir, Morna Edmundson, UBC

Elektra Women’s Choir hosts the Tapestry International Celebration of Women's Choir on May 5 and 6

Two harmonious concerts will unite Elektra with The Women’s Chorus of Dallas and Mirinesse Women’s Choir

MUSICStir VancouverApril 6, 2023Partner Content, Elektra Women's Choir

Malian singer-songwriter Fatoumata Diawara brings vibrant music to the Chan Centre, April 14

The Grammy-nominated artist sings mostly in Bambara, the language of Mali

WHAT'S STIRRING, MUSICGail JohnsonApril 5, 2023Chan Centre, African

Vanessa Goodman and Caroline Shaw’s Graveyards and Gardens loops and echoes its way back to the live stage

The immersive sound-and-dance piece has hit symphony and skateboard spaces before circling back to Vancouver—lamps, amps, and all

Vancouver Recital Society presents the Kanneh-Mason family on May 5

Troupe of seven spectacularly skilled siblings well-versed in piano, violin, and cello

MUSICStir VancouverApril 5, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Recital Society

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 Things to know about time-travelling Catalan folk innovators Tarta Relena

Barcelona’s Marta Torrella and Helena Ros draw on far-reaching Mediterranean traditions and multiple languages

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