Van Folk Fest is back again for it’s 36th year July 19-21 at Jericho beach.

The three day festival will be bursting with life! Fabulous music from local and afar artists combined with great food, shopping and other on-site activities will make for another successful year you don’t want to miss. Make sure to check out this year’s line up.

Single and weekend passes are available here or at the gate.

Tickets also at Highlife Records, Zulu Records, Neptoon Records, Banyen Books, Tickets Tonight and selected farmers markets (check here.)

More information on the Facebook page and website.

Glory Days &  Beat Route Magazine are hosting a Canadian 4th of July BBQ at Fortune Sound Club!

Eat, drink and enjoy Performances by Tristan Orchard , Noble Oak, Little Wild, Yes Bear, My Gay Husband, and OH NO! Yoko.

147 E. Pender St (at Main) in Chinatown V6A 1T6

Advance tickets for $5 available at Highlife, Zulu, Red Cat, Beatstreet, and online

More event information can be found here

Next Tuesday, June 25th, join us at Fortune Sound Club for Giraffage, Mister Lies, Noble Oak and 8prn.

Giraffage offers a fresh, sample-rich sound of dreamy pop beats, sensual synths and lush experimental electronica. The creation of 23 year-old Charlie Yin of San Francisco, Giraffage is an exciting new producer with an intuitive grasp of modern music manipulation, delivering beats that are dripping with vibes and accessible to all.

Mister Lies is the operational alias for producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Nick Zanca. Equipped with a laptop, several controllers and whatever instruments were lying around his congested dorm-room; he released his first EP anonymously before eventually revealing his identity. Zanca’s debut full-length MOWGLI, is the eight-track result of meditation and soul-searching – an aggressive hunt for self-awareness and feral youth.

Giraffage and Mister Lies come together to create an interesting evening of nocturnal pop and modern experimentation. Remember to join us at 9pm on June 25th at Fortune Sound Club!  (147 E Pender St, Vancouver, BC V6A 1T5)

Facebook event page HERE

Limited $10 early bird tickets available online only at: http://bit.ly/ZNvJlk

$15 advance tickets available at Highlife, Zulu, Red Cat, Beatstreet and online at: http://bit.ly/ZNvJlk

The Plugged In Concert Series is a monthly series aiming to showcase the best of different genres within the independent music scene in Vancouver. To start the series off, soulful blues band Guerrista will return after an almost two-year hiatus to perform one night only reunion show. The talented Mark Woodyard will also be there to impress you with his guitar and loop pedal skills.

Tickets are $15 at the door, and $10 in advance online at Northern Tickets.
More event information can be found here.

Presented by Plugged in Concert Series and CiTR 101.9FM.

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Hive: the New Bees 3 is the third instalment of a performance series that began in 2009 at the Vancouver Fringe Festival. Inspired by the popular “HIVE” series produced by the Progress Lab, the event was originally created to foster newpartnerships between emerging theatre artists. For a second time, Resounding Scream Theatre has helmed the event, and while the gathering was delightful yet again, it lacked the daring and quirky humour of Hive: the New Bees 2.

The last night is tonight, June 14.

I visited the Hive only briefly this year, so I missed many of the shows: so keep this in mind regarding my humble opinion. And as a format, it is still highly interesting and effective in introducing new theatre goers to new theatre makers. Unfortunately, there was a lack of danger and intensity to these works, a high proportion of which featured women in their underwear. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but using underwear to imply intimacy – or steampunk to imply oddity or anachronism – is a surprising lack of newness.

For example, a story told while being tattooed was meant, I’m sure, as an exercise in endurance and metaphor; and the tattoo was beautiful. But the story was not original and thus all the weight lay in the performance. Alas, it couldn’t be heard or felt above the drone.

The steampunk wonder machine helmet was most likely the most intriguing, except for a masked man from whom I didn’t have the requisite 10 mins to participate in his experiments. And a heard tell of a tour outside that participants refused to spoil, meaning it was probably an experience worth having.

Hive: the New Bees is worth a chance as event and format; so far in the run it is without a full realization. There was a lack of polish – or edge – to this years event, though the enthusiasm was evident. I so thoroughly enjoyed last year that I will keep Hive: the New Bees buzzing in my heart until next year where hopefully things will be sweeter.

Participating groups in 2013:

  1. Resounding Scream Theatre                                          2. rice & beans theatre
  3. workingclasstheatre                                                          4. Tyler Smith
  5. Psyche Theatre                                                                 6. Escaping Goat Productions
  7. The Troika Collective                                                       8. F29
  9. Human Theatre Collective                                             10. Delinquent Theatre
11. Hong Kong Exile

Now in its second year, Takin’ Turns is a local music showcase happening every 3rd Tuesday of the month at the very funky Prophouse Café (Venables & Commercial), where three musical acts share the stage and play music in-the-round. This month Takin’ Turns presents Canadian Fingerstyle Guitar Competition finalist Alexander Flock, the soulful smouldering vocals of Karen Larson accompanied by Pat Covernton on piano, and the beautiful songs and lap steal guitar of Australia’s Jason Lowe. There will also be a raffle in aid of Crisis Centre with first prize donated by Prussin Music.

For more information, please visit the Takin’ Turns website. If you’re a singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, duo, or trio interested in taking part in a future show, please e-mail info@takinturns.ca.

Sponsored by Prussin Music, Dominion Blue Reprographics, and CiTR 101.9FM.

Read the post below for the details and submit your application by Friday, June 28, 2013.
You can also download the job posting here (right click + save).

But first we’ll explore the patina of sea.

More specifically, we explore IOU at Unit/Pitt Projects. The first show at their new location at 236 Pender, and the unfinished walls and smells of the market next door mingle with the smell of the sea and the roughened exterior of the the pieces.

Kalli Niedoba’s curatorial project brings together works by Steven Brekelmans, Colleen Heslin, Devon Knowles, Ben Raymer, Ian Robert Sandilands and Frieda-raye Green. Their pieces – excluding Frienda-raye Green’s video (click through!) – have been submerged in the Georgia Straight to beautiful and thoughtful results.

(L to R): Ben Raymer’s”Endings and Getaways” cast aluminium cap before submersion.  The pieces are submerged. Steven Brekelmans’ “Rudimentary Figures 1.”

Listen tonight to learn why Kalli decided that her curatorial statement would be crated submersion.

Then stick around for Arts Project, in which Mikey Harker presents his full rendering of his conversation with Jesse Birch about Properties at the Western Front. Properties closes this Sunday, June 16 during their 40th Anniversary Open House.