by Steve Newton on March 11th, 2021 at 11:15 AM 1 of 2 2 of 2 Anyone who believes arts and culture have taken a hiatus during the pandemic needs to start paying attention to livestreamed events, wrote the
Georgia Straight s Charlie Smith in his rave review of Music on Main s
Graveyards and Gardens earlier this year.
Smith described the show s world premiere at Vancouver s PuSh International Performing Arts Festival in January as mesmerizing and captivating , and now anyone who missed it will get a second chance to see what all the fuss is about.
Music on Main is presenting
Graveyards and Gardens: On Demand from March 18 to 31. The pay-per-view performances, broadcast in 4K high-definition video, feature original choreography and dance by Vancouver s Vanessa Goodman juxtaposed with a musical story created and voiced by Pulitzer Prize–winning musician Caroline Shaw.
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by Mike Usinger on March 2nd, 2021 at 4:55 PM 1 of 3 2 of 3
Labels are endlessly fascinating, and often terribly misleading, when it comes to the world of music. Think about how the White Stripes were slapped with “garage rock” when they first exploded out of the American underground in 2001, even though that didn’t begin to describe “Hotel Yorba” or “We’re Going to be Friends”.
If ever-reliable Wikipedia is to be believed, System of a Down can be filed under (take your pick) alternative metal, nu metal, or heavy metal at the record store. That none of those tags do the tiniest bit of justice to “Arials” or “Cigaro” seems to matter to no one.
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Popular Vancouver journalist Bob Mercer died Feb. 26 after a battle with cancer, which shocked people who knew him, partly because he had kept his illness quiet, and partly because Mercer seemed kind of invincible.
Mercer was a master at reinventing himself. The self-described “son of a preacher man” his father was a United Church minister Mercer was a hippie, a Yippie, an artist, a musician, and a teacher.
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But he will be remembered mostly as a journalist, starting off in the underground press in the late 1960s and early ’70s with The Yellow Journal, The Grape, and The Georgia Straight before moving over to more mainstream fare such as Vancouver magazine and The Province.