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Jeni’s Picks for the week aheadHello Picks People… lots to keep you dry and happy in case the weather forecast is right about all that rain this week! Folk Festival is up soon … think sunshine please. This is a free compilation so, as usual, please make sure to check with venues for changes to schedule. Additional events will be added to the website during the week.
 CBC Musical Nooners July 9-12, 2019 Free eventThis event runs from July 9, 2019 until July 12, 2019.
Celebrate 10 years of supporting local music with the community. The tenth season of Musical Nooners: CBC Vancouver’s free summer-long outdoor concert series, weekdays from 12 – 1 p.m. on the Outdoor Stage and Plaza. July 9 Tariq July 10 Mazacote July 11 Rare Americans July 12 TrailerHawk  Provence Marinaside – Hip Pocket Quartet Free eventJuly 10, 2019 6:00 pm
Hip Pocket Quartet Adam Rohrlick: electric guitar and tenor saxophone, Jason de Couto: keyboard, Brent Gubbels: acoustic bass, Joel Fountain: drums & vocals  Music III – F.Houle/Hasselberg/Zubot/Loewen/Tamborazo/ClouserJuly 10, 2019 7:30 pm
House Concert at Marina’s – III Set 1 Marina Hasselberg, solo cello Set 2 Josh Zubot, violin François Houle, clarinet Kenton Loewen, drums Marina Hasselberg, cello Set 3 Chacal del Tamborazo, drums Todd Clouser, voice / guitar 7.30pm DOORS 8.00pm MUSIC $20/PWYC (cash only) Tea on the house Welcome to BYOB See Facebook posting for address.  Roedde House Summer Jazz Series- Ben Henriques TrioJuly 11, 2019 7:00 pm
Roedde House Presents…Summer Jazz on the Porch! “Pay What You Wish” for casual concert seating in Barclay Heritage Square. First up.. Ben Henriques Trio Ben Henriques (sax), Omar Amlani (drums), Jodi Proznick (bass) Bring your own chairs, blankets and snacks! Complimentary lemonade will be served.  Italian Cultural Centre: Opera Nights at Il Centro – Italy vs. France Duelling Contest PWYCJuly 11, 2019 7:30 pm
Hosted by the Consulate General of Italy, the Consulate General of France, Il Centro and the Alliance Française, this concert will be a fun, friendly ‘duel’ over which country has come up with the best opera villain, the best opera hero, the best opera death, the best opera romantic, the best opera vixen, etc.! With audience participation, this will certainly prove a fun, nail-biting concert! With singers Eve-Lyn de la Haye (soprano), Martin Renner Wallace (tenor), Meghan Latham (mezzo), Jason Cook (baritone), Roger Parton (piano). The bell for the first round sounds at 7:30 pm in the Ballroom. Pay-What-You-Can at the door.  Jazz at Tangent Cafe – Chad Makela Quartet By DonationJuly 11, 2019 8:30 pm
Baritone saxophonist Chad Makela takes his horn into outer space! His unique music takes post Coltrane and adds odd time signatures. This firey quartet is thrilling and provocative! With David Blake – guitar, Wynston Minckler – bass and Bernie Arai – drums  Red Lion – Creber/Hood By DonationThis event runs from July 12, 2019 until August 2, 2019.
For the next few weeks on Fridays while Ron Johnston is recovering from hip surgery (we wish him well) it will be Michael Creber at the keys and Cameron Hood on bass…. plus surprise guests.  Havana Theatre -7 Stories by Morris PanychJuly 12, 2019 7:30 pm
A man stands alone on the ledge of a building 7 storeys above the street contemplating his life. He finds his train of thought interrupted by the absurd and self-involved inhabitants of the building. As he becomes involved in their dramas he begins to question which is the better choice, to stay where he is or to step off the ledge? Spark Productions presents Morris Panych’s absurdist black comedy is a leap of faith guaranteed to entertain and delight audiences. Tickets $15 Also on July 13/16.  Tyrant Studios – Bonnie Northgraves QuartetJuly 12, 2019 9:30 pm
Fresh from the release of her new album and returning from a European tour, singer, pianist and trumpet player Bonnie Northgraves performs with her quartet. $10 cover cash at the door. Cash bar.  Jazz @ The Pat – Boyle, Young, McFetridge Free eventJuly 13, 2019 3:00 pm
The group BMY will be introducing their new CD ‘Frolics’. with Patrick Boyle – trumpet James Young – bass George McFetridge – piano  Vancity Theatre – The InvisiblesJuly 13, 2019 3:00 pm
While Goebbels infamously declared Berlin “free of Jews” in 1943, 1,700 managed to survive in the Nazi capital. Claus Räfle’s gripping docudrama traces the stories of four real-life survivors who learned to hide in plain sight. Moving between cinemas, cafés and safe houses, they dodged Nazi officials and a dense network of spies and informants. Yet their prudence was at odds with their youthful recklessness Tickets $13/$11  Rio Theatre – The SouvenirJuly 13, 2019 3:30 pm
Set in the 1980’s, British writer-director Joanna Hogg‘s (ARCHIPELAGO, UNRELATED) fourth film THE SOUVENIR concerns itself with a shy film student (Honor Swinton Byrne, in a breakout performance) who begins finding her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent courtship with a charismatic, but untrustworthy, man. She defies her protective mother (Tilda Swinton) and concerned friends as she slips deeper and deeper into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship which comes dangerously close to destroying her dreams. Tickets $10.50/$12.50 Also showing on Monday July 15  Red Lion – Kellett/Hood By DonationJuly 13, 2019 7:00 pm
As Ron Johnston recovers from hip surgery (wishing him well!) it will be Lorne Kellett at the piano and Cameron Hood on bass for the next few Saturdays. With surprise guests as always.  Frankie’s Jazz Club – Brad Shigeta BoptetJuly 13, 2019 8:00 pm
Trombonist Brad Shigeta spent two decades in New York City working and recording with Clifford Jordan, Illinois Jacquet, and Wynton Marsalis. This quintet will be playing fiery new arrangements of bebop standards of the ’40s and ’50s and features Mike Allen saxophone, Sharon Minemoto piano, Jen Hodge bass, and Julian MacDonough drums. Cover $17.  8East – Darius Jones meets 8East PWYCJuly 13, 2019 8:30 pm
Darius Jones is an alto saxophonist and composer living in New York. He makes modern, soulful, scintillating music. Darius Jones – alto saxophone JP Carter – trumpet Lisa Cay Miller – piano Kenton Loewen – drums Doors at 8, music at 8:30  Jazz Vespers – Norm Quinn presents Q5 By DonationJuly 14, 2019 4:00 pm
Jazz Vespers in Exile Q5 JAZZ… is a Vancouver based Modern Jazz Quintet. It s members are all professional players, veterans of the Vancouver music scene, who have worked together for many years in various combinations, in different orchestras, covering a wide gambit of jazz styles ranging from Trad to Be Pop, Post bop ,Latin, Big band, Smooth jazz and Pop. LORNE KELLETT- PIANO STAN TAYLOR-DRUMS ALLAN JOHNSTON- BASSES AARON HARDIE- SAXOPHONES NORM QUINN -TRUMPET AND FLUGELHORN  Rio Theatre – RocketmanJuly 14, 2019 4:15 pm
ROCKETMAN is an epic musical fantasy about the incredible human story of Sir Elton John‘s breakthrough years. The film follows the fantastical journey of transformation from shy piano prodigy Reginald Dwight (Taran Egerton, in a breakout performance) into international superstar Elton John. This inspirational story — set to Elton John’s most beloved songs and performed by Egerton — tells the universally relatable story of how a small-town boy became one of the most iconic figures in pop culture. ROCKETMAN also stars Jamie Bell (BILLY ELLIOT) as Elton’s longtime lyricist and writing partner Bernie Taupin, Richard Madden as Elton’s first manager, John Reid, and Bryce Dallas Howard as Elton’s mother, Sheila Farebrother. Tickets $10.50/$12.50 **Also showing on Wednesday July 17.  Jazz at Tangent Cafe – Laura Crema Trio By DonationJuly 14, 2019 6:00 pm
Exquisite vocalist Laura Crema brings her long time trio to Tangent. Laura’s bitter sweet voice dances through standards, bossa nova and her own original tunes. With Bill Coon – guitar and Paul Rushka – bass  Vancity Theatre – Music Monday That Pärt Feeling: The Universe of Arvo PärtJuly 15, 2019 8:30 pm
In the lovely, slender documentary That Pärt Feeling: The Universe of Arvo Pärt, producer-director Paul Hegeman highlights the music of renowned Estonian composer Arvo Pärt while attempting to unveil the mystery around the purportedly reclusive writer of such famed works as “Tabula Rasa,” “Fratres,” “Trivium” and “Für Alina,” all stirringly performed here. But Hegeman, who also shot the film (with Auke Dijkstra), eschews a typical biographical recounting of the 83-year-old maestro’s prolific life; we learn little of his past, his process or what makes him tick. Perhaps then the “mystery” of the man billed here as “the most performed composer of our times” is just that he’s a serene, low-profile guy who lives to create his uniquely spiritual and minimalist brand of classical music — and the world is better for it. Tickets $11 |
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