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Ice Cream Truck Live rolls into local parks and beaches with music by diverse artists

A bona fide ice-cream truck hosts the weekly, inclusive, socially distanced pop-up music fests, with Mauvey headlining July 10

MUSICGail JohnsonJuly 8, 2021Ice Cream Truck Live, Mauvey, Teon Gibbs, Bo Henrik

Vancouver Folk Music Festival announces At Home program for 2021

Tsatsu Stalqayu (Coastal Wolf Pack), Khari Wendell McClelland, and Kathleen Nisbet among the featured performers for the virtual fest

Side Door raises US$3 million in seed funding to grow, boost visibility in the United States

Co-founded by Vancouver’s Dan Mangan, the performance platform offers a low-overhead touring model for artists

MUSIC, THEATREGail JohnsonJuly 5, 2021Dan Mangan, Side Door, Some Assembly Theatre

Singer Dee Daniels' creativity is reborn after a bout with cancer, and a brush with the divine

She went into the operating room as a leading interpreter of the Great American Songbook, and emerged as a songwriter

MUSICStir VancouverJune 28, 2021Coastal Jazz, Vancouver International Jazz Festival

Jill Barber returns to the Jazz Fest stage with something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue

The chanteuse closes the annual festival with an in-person and streaming concert

FESTS, MUSICGail JohnsonJune 28, 2021Jazz Fest, Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Jill Barber

VSO to release recording of final live concert of its 2020-21 season featuring Steven Page, Kevin Fox, and Craig Northey, July 6

The in-person show will live on online

Emad Armoush bridges Arabic, jazz, and even flamenco worlds with new Rayhan project

At the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, the Syrian ex-pat’s new quintet crosses cultures in captivating ways

The importance of family fuels jazz guitarist Jeff Parker and the New Breed's Suite for Max Brown

The jazz fest artist uses sampling and sequencing on an album made with his mother in mind

Stir Pairing: Chor Leoni's One Another concert meets summer ramen and BC rosé

The Vancouver men’s choir joins forces with youth voices in its new digital concert that calls for Kinton Ramen’s latest dish and Red Rooster’s pink wine

Tabla master Zakir Hussain reconnects with his late father while strengthening cross-cultural ties

The musician, who appears at Indian Summer Festival, has found happiness revisiting music of the past during the pandemic

LIVESTREAM, MUSICJanet SmithJune 21, 2021Indian Summer Festival, Homepage feature

Elation and swirling emotions as VSO holds its first live concert in 15 months at the Orpheum

Program of Martin and Strauss offered a range of moods to mark the reopening of live classical music

MUSICJanet SmithJune 20, 2021VSO

Jazz at Pyatt Hall keeps musical traditions alive, from hard bop to effortless swing

Cory Weeds, Jennifer Scott, Rene Worst, and Phil Dyer among the luminaries performing at the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival series

Sound of the City: Juno-nominated IAMTHELIVING and Teon Gibbs make music for dancing with JNGL

The musicians bridge the gap between R&B, pop, hip-hop, and soul

SOUND OF THE CITY, MUSICStir VancouverJune 18, 2021Sound of the City, music, Teon Gibbs

Marathon outdoor piano concert at Mountain View Cemetery marks A Vexing Time

Ida Nilsen, Leslie Dala, Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa, and others pitch in on Eric Satie’s epic Vexations, as Little Chamber Music fetes the reopening of the world

MUSICJanet SmithJune 17, 2021Little Chamber Music