This week let s have a look at next week.
Live music continues apace. I ve picked out three very different gigs of interest, one leaning Celtic, an international rock show, and a heaping helping of Indian music. Variety being the spice of life this seems a particularly well-seasoned column.
Let s take these chronologically: next Friday you might decide to head to Katikati where this month Katikati Folk Club hosts The Whittakers, a local band who released a debut album a year or so back and have been active round the area recently at the Barrel Room, the Farmer s Market and more.
Events in Metro Vancouver: Live and virtual things to do April 15-21 This week s events around Metro Vancouver include Academy Award-nominated shorts, the world premiere of yellow objects, and a double-bill from Ballet B.C.
Author of the article: Shawn Conner
Publishing date: Apr 14, 2021 • 4 hours ago • 3 minute read • Catch all the short film nominees, including the animated short Burrow, through viff.org now until April 29. jpg
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Whether you’re looking for date-night ideas, free things to do or just something fun to do with the kids, you can’t go wrong with our list of events happening around Metro Vancouver between April 15-21. Headlining this week’s picks are the Academy Award-nominated short films streaming at viff.org.
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Jonathon Harper needs little introduction. He has paid his dues now after half a century of touring, composing, and recording.
His career has fallen into different eras with the focus on mastering a certain type of music: Folk, Classical, Latin, Rock, Italian, Flamenco, and (naturally enough) World Music.
His recent concert at Waikanae’s public Art Gallery with his ART GHETTO band featured a multi-instrumental mix of South American, Folk, and Jazz.creating their own local version of World Music. It included two South American musicians.
Now, with his upcoming solo Road Works concert for us, he will present an equal measure of original guitar instrumentals and poetic songs that reflect ordinary life in New Zealand. Jonathon admires and likes to emulate Sam Hunt’s approach that has harnessed a sophisticated knowledge of language and poetry to successfully reflect the experience of life back to ordinary Kiwis - including shows in p
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‘Just keep rocking’, and then die’: John Spillane on his new album and how he hopes his best songs are ahead of him
From crowd-funding his new album, to keeping his long-running residency at DeBarra’s of Clonakilty alive via the magic of live streaming, it’s been a hectic lockdown for Cork’s songwriter, John Spillane. Downtown gets a chat in via Zoom, while the singer sorts another round of records and CDs for the post-office in his native Passage West.
John Spillane is only getting started. Picture: Shane J Horan
Mike McGrath Bryan
The fixed-perspective view offered by a video-call has offered up its own kind of subtleties and storytelling, over a lockdown of Zooms, Hangouts and the like.
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