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Funkiness, satire, and soul: Josh "Socalled" Dolgin spreads the love of Yiddish music

Accompanied by a local string quartet, the Montreal-based artist brings his Di Frosh project to Vancouver for the 2021 Chutzpah! Festival

FESTS, MUSICGail JohnsonNovember 12, 2021Chutzpah! Festival, Josh Socalled Dolgin, Yiddish music, Homepage feature

Bassist James Meger's new How to Do Nothing band sails into unpredictable elements at IronFest

The versatile acoustic and electric musician draws from pandemic downtime spent at sea

MUSICJanet SmithNovember 11, 2021Coastal Jazz, IronFest

Local choir singers and brass players join forces for Remembering Together, Apart, November 11 at Mountain View Cemetery

Three choirs join Little Chamber Music to spread out across the Fields of Honour

MUSICJanet SmithNovember 11, 2021Vancouver Bach Choir, Little Chamber Music, musica intima

Hasalala Danxalax: Marion Newman & Friends brings Indigenous operatic voices to the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Mezzo soprano to be joined by soprano Melody Courage, tenor Asitha Tennekoon and baritone Jonathon Adams

MUSIC, OPERAStir VancouverNovember 10, 2021Partner Content, CHAN CENTRE

Martha Wainwright delves into the pain of divorce—and the beauty of hope—On Love Will Be Reborn

The Montreal-based singer-songwriter brings her tour supporting her new album to the Massey Theatre

MUSICGail JohnsonNovember 9, 2021Massey Theatre, music, Martha Wainwright, Homepage feature

Vancouver Bach Choir announces upcoming performance of Benjamin Britten's famous Saint Nicolas cantata

Composed in 1948, the piece is joyful, heartfelt, and festive

MUSICStir VancouverNovember 9, 2021Partner Content, Vancouver Bach Choir, Leslie Dala

Avi Avital and Miloš Karadaglić bring fresh musicianship to mandolin and guitar

The Israeli and Montenegrin artists make a dynamic duo, interweaving Bach, Glass, and a Duplessy premiere

MUSICStir VancouverNovember 8, 2021Vancouver Recital Society, VRS, mandolin, Homepage feature

Listener meets santour player: As dreams are made makes intimate magic again at Modulus Festival

Escaping into the vibrations of an ancient instrument at Music on Main’s one-on-one concerts

MUSICJanet SmithNovember 8, 2021Music on Main, music on main

Tiffany Ayalik performs Itqakaijuq/Tries to Remember at Western Front, November 12 and 13

The multimedia work breathes new life into songs of the artist’s Inuinnait ancestors and community

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonNovember 8, 2021Western Front, Tiffany Ayalik

Sapphire Haze mesmerizes at Modulus Festival, November 9

The musical duo presents electronic diffusion at the Music on Main fest’s ambitious closing concert

MUSICGail JohnsonNovember 7, 2021Music on Main, David Pay, Modulus Festival, music on main

Bramwell Tovey, Yefim Bronfman perform Beethoven with the VSO, November 12 and 13

The Grammy-winning artists join forces for a program that also includes Tchaikovsky and Balfour

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonNovember 7, 2021VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey

With a hand-carved bow and a gong, master percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani creates otherworldly sounds

Powell Street Festival Society brings the New Mexico-based, Osaka-born musician to Vancouver for two concerts

MUSICGail JohnsonNovember 6, 2021Powell Street Festival, percussion, Mark Haney, Massy Arts Society, Homepage feature

Vancouver Chamber Choir announces FIFTY, its 50th-anniversary tribute concert

Founder and conductor emeritus Jon Washburn returns to the podium with artistic director Kari Turunen to look back at a half century of championing new work

MUSICStir VancouverNovember 5, 2021Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir

Piano virtuoso Behzod Abduraimov plays without reservation

The Uzbek-born artist has selected four of his favourite pieces to perform with Vancouver Recital Society

MUSICGail JohnsonNovember 5, 2021Vancouver Recital Society, piano

Sound of the City: Sad China talks about the challenges of being a young, racialized, nonbinary artist and the power of community

The musician also known as Sunny Chen wants to see more Black and Indigenous peoples of marginalized genders in leadership positions, especially in the arts

SOUND OF THE CITY, MUSICStir VancouverNovember 5, 2021Sound of the City, music