Jeni’s Picks for the week ahead Dear Picks People,  here we go again. Please visit my website for additions as the week progresses. As usual make sure to check with venues for changes to schedule.  Enjoy!   WISE Hall – Petunia & The Vipers By Donation This event runs from November 5, 2018 until December 24, 2018. Monday night Residency…  Petunia & The Vipers Hillbilly-flavoured-swing inflected-ragtime-goodtime-thunderously rolling-one-of-a-kind music. Vancity Theatre – Horn From The Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story November 19, 2018 8:15 pm   Music Mondays presents… Dynamite on the blues harp, Paul Butterfield took the Chicago blues scene by storm in the 1960s – he even stole Muddy Waters’ rhythm section out from under him. Through his music and words, along with first‐hand accounts of his family, his band mates and those closest to him, not forgetting BB King, Todd Rundgren, Bonnie Raitt and other legends, Horn From the Heart tells the complex story of a man many call the greatest blues harmonica player of all time.  Tickets $11 Sylvia Hotel – Ingrid Stitt Trio Free event November 20, 2018 8:00 pm INGRID STITT (saxophonist, pianist, educator) was born into a musical family in Dauphin, Manitoba, and began playing the saxophone early in life. She has performed with a variety of artists including Charlie Biddle, Tommy Banks, Bo Diddley, Slim Williams, Corey Hart, Rita McNeil, and Jim Galloway. In addition, she always led her own jazz trios, quartets and quintets. Acoustic jazz/swing.   Provence Marinaside – Hip Pocket featuring Diane Lines Free event November 21, 2018 6:00 pm Hip Pocket Trio featuring Diane Lines Adam Rohrlick: tenor saxophone and electric guitar Diane Lines: keyboards and vocals Brent Gubbels: acoustic bass Lana Lou’s – Mixtophonics #6 By Donation November 21, 2018 8:00 pm Mixtophonics.  An evening of ambient groove electronica with  some of Vancouver’s best creative musicians cover $5-10 Rogue Folk Club – The White Album Revisited (PAL Fundraiser) November 22, 2018 7:30 pm Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Beatles’ White Album! To commemorate the occasion, some of Vancouver’s funkiest musicians including Duncan Bain, Llowyn Ball, Mike Braverman, Bill Coon, AK Coope, Michael Creber, Moshe Denburg, Allan Dionne, Sandy Fiddes, Martin Fisk, Dave Gibbons, Ed Henderson, Andy Hillhouse, John Korsrud, Kate Hammett-Vaughan, Jacquie Leggatt, Steve Maddock, Giorgio Magnanensi, Rob McKenzie, Finn Manniche, Andrea Minden, Laurence Mollerup, LJ Mountenay, Tony Nickels, John Oliver, Marin Patenaude, Ron Samworth, Doug Smith, Allen Stiles, Lesley Sutherland, Cameron Wilson and Ari Wise are gathering together to pay homage to the classic album in a gala benefit concert for PAL Vancouver. 29 innovative interpretative arrangements of 29 songs. The album will be performed in its entirety and in its original order. All concert proceeds will be going to PAL Vancouver (The Performing Arts Lodge provides longstanding members of Vancouver’s performing arts professions with affordable housing). **Sold out but some tickets will be on sale $45 at the door. First come, first served. Jazz at Tangent Cafe – Lloyd Arntzen BC Music Hall of Fame Induction Party By Donation November 22, 2018 8:00 pm Celebrated clarinetist Lloyd Arntzen inspired generations of Arntzen to pursue lives in music. His swinging melodies bring us back to a simpler time.  Celebrate Lloyd’s induction into the BC Music Hall of Fame. With special guests. 21st Annual European Film Festival November 23 – December 4, 2018 This event runs from November 23, 2018 until December 4, 2018. EUROPE WITHOUT THE JETLAG! The Cinematheque’s annual celebration of new cinema from the European Union. This year’s festival showcases entries from 26 EU members. First stop Austria with Mademoiselle Paradis, a sumptuous historical drama, followed by a trip to Malta with Gozo, a stylish psychological thriller.  Travel time in Hungary, tour uncomfortably comic family relationships in Croatia, discover a major photographic artist nearly lost to the dustbin of history in Lithuania, and rock out to Ireland’s poignant tale of friendship and mental health. Tickets $13/11 Emily Carr University – Legendary Student Art Sale This event runs from November 23, 2018 until November 25, 2018. Original paintings, drawings, ceramics, and sculpture, along with photographs, prints, wearable works, housewares, greeting cards and more! Discover + support the work of emerging designers and artists. Get your holiday shopping sorted while sustaining your local creative economy. Vancity Theatre – Out of State November 23, 2018 7:15 pm Indigenous IFF Opening Gala… Out of State Shipped thousands of miles away from the tropical islands of Hawaii to a private prison in the Arizona desert, two native Hawaiians discover their indigenous traditions from a fellow inmate serving a life sentence. It’s from this unlikely setting that David and Hale finish their terms and return to Hawaii, hoping for a fresh start. Eager to prove to themselves and to their families that this experience has changed them forever, David and Hale struggle with the hurdles of life as formerly incarcerated men, asking the question: can you really go home again? Ticket includes Welcome Songs and prayer (7.15); Film (7.30), Skype Q&A and post-screening Hawaiian Luau Reception (9-10pm). $20/$11. Pat’s Pub – VLJO Tribute to Maynard Ferguson November 23, 2018 8:00 pm Michael Kim & Fred Stride present… Vancouver Legacy Jazz Orchestra with the music of Maynard Ferguson! Featuring 18 of Vancouver’s premier musicians (see the line-up on the poster!). $15 at the door   Tyrant Studios – Jimi James Fraser featuring John Gross & Hugh Fraser November 23, 2018 9:00 pm The Jimi James Fraser trio was started 2 years ago when several students of music decided to move in together and create Jazz House. Since then  they have been practicing and jamming almost every night with amazing musicians from all over Vancouver.  John Gross the great L.A tenor player has been a big inspiration to the band. Plus Hugh Fraser, father of Jimi James, will be joining the band for one set. Cover $10 at the door Jazz @ The Pat – Anita Eccleston Quintet Free event November 24, 2018 3:00 pm Jazz favorites, done up trad and not-so-trad, mingled with  funky original songs, plus unique takes on classic and current covers.   Anita Eccleston – Vocals & Trumpet Doug Gorkoff – Cello Andrew Smith – Guitar & Vocals Graham Clark – Bass Bernie Arai – Drums The Cultch – 25th Annual Westcoast Guitar Night November 24, 2018 8:00 pm The West Coast Guitar Night features an impressive array of finger-style acoustic guitarists that all play completely different yet complementary styles of music. The show is produced by String Plunker Records and has been a popular annual concert in Vancouver since 1999.     Acoustic Jazz, Filipino, Classical, Folk, World, and Flamenco with: Kent Hillman Edgar Avelino Les Finnigan Simon Fox Itamar Erez John Gilliat with Rossi Tzonkov Tickets $34 8East – MAGIK November 24, 2018 9:00 pm MAGIK is a new Vancouver-based project bringing together the historical work of Giorgio Magnanensi’s sound genesis that became West Coast Radians, with two of Vancouver’s most respected players to create a multi-layered, live electro acoustic performance.     Marina Hasselberg Cello Giorgio Magnanensi 8 Cedar panels, piano & electronics Kenton Loewen Drums & Percussion $10-20 suggested donation (You will not be refused if you are unable to pay) China Cloud -Star System plays the music of SUN RA By Donation November 24, 2018 10:00 pm Sonic Translations from L O S T W O R L D S featuring: Elisa Thorn H A R P Lisa Cay Miller P I A N O JP Carter T R U M P E T Joshua Zubot V I O L I N John Paton S A X O P H O N E Ben Henriques S A X O P H O N E / F L U T E Lee Hutzulak S Y N T H / E L E C T R O N I C S Tom Wherrett G U I T A R Skye Brooks P E R C U S I O N Colin Edward Cowan B A S S Daniel Gaucher D R U M S B O A R D I N G begins at *9* pm D E P A R T U R E at *10* pm The Heatley – Sunday Brunch with the Burying Ground By Donation November 25, 2018 12:00 pm Sunday brunch plus rustic old-timey, country blues, and swinging jazz flecked, folk music with the Burying Ground Jazz Vespers – Bill Runge Quintet By Donation November 25, 2018 4:00 pm Versatile saxophonist and band leader Bill Runge brings his jazz quintet to Jazz Vespers Guilt & Co – Andrea Ramolo : An Homage to Leonard Cohen Pay-what-you-can November 25, 2018 8:00 pm Andrea Ramolo is a multiple Canadian Folk Music Award nominee and one-half of the acclaimed folk/pop duo Scarlett Jane. Celebrating the Vancouver release of her newest recording ‘Homage’ – an album honouring songs by Leonard Cohen. With special guest Noah Walker on guitar. Listen here Douglas College – Z’Appostrophe plays the music of Frank Zappa Free event November 26, 2018 7:30 pm Eight-piece Vancouver band plays all Zappa and nothing but Zappa! From familiar tunes like Peaches en Regalia to the odd-metered madness of Echidna’s Arf, this band will be a treat for Zappaphiles and those who aren’t yet. Blair Fisher trumpet and keys, Nick Apivor marimba and percussion, Blair Lewis and Gunter Schulz guitars, Mike Simpson keyboards, Doug Smith bass, Bob Caldwell drums, Jerry DesVoignes vocals. Libra Room – John Korsrud Latin Band By Donation November 26, 2018 9:00 pm Monday Latin Night Trumpet player/composer/band leader John Korsrud (Goma Dura/Hard Rubber) will bring some of Vancouver’s finest players to the Drive --

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