Jim Byrnes lives and breathes music. For nearly fifty years he’s crooned, drawled, belted, hollered and sweet-talked more songs into a microphone than most people ever get to hear in a single lifetime. His evocative, smoky vocals are found in a truth that doesn’t come overnight. The sheer joy you can hear in the music he creates is a reason to celebrate Jim Byrnes as a living musical treasure.
World-renowned composer and Kora Virtuoso Tunde Jegede, Cree hoop-dancer and musician Jessica McMann and international classical violinist Daniel Bhattacharya combine for a unique collaboration.
Oktopus is a major presence on the Canadian world music scene, primarily devoted to klezmer and distinguished by a novel approach that incorporates various components of the classical and Quebecois repertoire, with some jazz and Balkan accents.
La Cafamore is a classical music chamber group based in Rossland, which regularly tours the Kootenays. This concert will be an exploration of the string quartets of siblings Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn.
Inspired by traditional Coast Salish and Sto:lo music, Th’owxiya is the story of an old hungry spirit that inhabits a feast dish full of bountiful delicious foods.
Begonia’s Alexa Dirks has never been able to fit into the box of being a "conventional woman". “I’m loud, I’m awkward and I’ve always taken up space. I've done things my whole life that some people would tell me weren't appropriate 'for a girl'.” That narrative that once tore Dirks down is now what empowers her to take charge of her own story, in her own way.
As the forest fire rapidly encroaches, Moose, Beaver, Skunk, Snake, Wolf, Crow and Fox seek safety in Bear’s cave a theatrical world that is part cave part nightclub.
