aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Worst day of the year?It's always about money: VANOC and the aboriginal torch relay. For many native leaders, it's easier to rail against the government as the source of all that ails first nations people . And for most media its been super easy to ...

topics: musicians, olympic-games, olympics, park, show

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Not many people head to a show for the opening act, especially when they're in the large shadow of Oscar-winning musicians Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova. But Doveman, a quintet founded by New York's Thomas Bartlett, may be worth the price of admi...

topics: musicians, show

aggregated from: HeroBlog

Last week the Ack posted a rather thoughtful opine on K'NAAN's Polaris-nominated album Troubadour. I think one of his main points was that too many guests can even dull the impact of you album if you have a compelling story to tell, as K'NAAN does. ...

topics: dj, funk, musicians

aggregated from: HeroBlog

It's no secret that sometimes music is the only thing that helps you get through real loss. I'm not talking about a broken heart or a bad day, but those moments you get hit with that are unforgiving and unrelenting and leave an emptiness that wakes u...

topics: indie, musicians

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The first 2 days of the festival had bearable amounts of rain. I don't have any water proof shoes, so I walked around in flip-flops all weekend. My feet were muddy at the end of most days, however I didn't have to endure the pain of walking in wet ...

topics: dance, dancing, improv, indie, musicians

aggregated from: HeroBlog

For most musicians, the repeating cycle of inspiration is one that is hard to escape. New love, good days, better nights, heartbroken mornings; write your way through it. Everything starts and ends at the same place and sadly, once it's written you ...

aggregated from: HeroBlog

I've actually been meaning to do this for a while, but have always had something else I wanted to write about instead. We aren't really a fan of the ole clip-show mentality, but a lull in the review pile and the fact I had my IPOD on random during ...

topics: indie, musicians, show, shows

aggregated from: HeroBlog

There are some projects that are simply larger in scope than most non-creative people can process. Knowing an artist can pen an album so focused in scope and so precise that it takes over a year to fine tune, 16+ members and multiple recording studio...

topics: musicians, shows

aggregated from: Commercial Drive Live!

Volunteers Wanted: The 6th Annual Summer Dream Literary Arts Festival Aug.19-Aug.29, 2009 Presented by Pandora's Collective Summer Dream was created to raise public awareness about on-going literary events, programs and resources avail...

topics: arts, city-of-vancouver, commercial-drive, design, musicians

aggregated from: Commercial Drive Live!

Summer Spaces is looking for performers, musicians, actors, jugglers, non-profits, clowns, visual artists, dancers, creative souls and community lovers to participate in East Vancouver's first regular street closure (or opening if you want to look at...

topics: commercial-drive, dance, east-vancouver, musicians, theatre