BC Events

The Spooky Stanley Park Ghost Train is back for another year! Opening to the public October 11 - 31st!

Doors 9pm Show 9:30pm Pay-What-You-Can Old-school, new school, even in between school. The Joan Bessie Band is bringing you a four-piece live experience to debut brand new original material with the perfect sprinkling of covers. This Parlour Rock sound is a powerhouse collaboration featuring Mary Ancheta, Darren Parris and Ali Siadat.

Doors 7pm Show 8pm Pay-What-You-Can Hide in the Light, the latest album from award-winning singer-songwriter Myc Sharratt, captures a feeling fit for a joyful journey home at summers end. The collection is a showcase of the intimate, more subtle side of Sharratt’s vocal rarely revealed in the Vancouver Island product’s first four independent albums. Beautifully...

Doors 9pm Show 9:30pm Pay-What-You-Can It’s Wednesday! Time to get your swing on, so strap on your dancing shoes and join us at Guilt & Co for a night of jazzy goodness! Vancouver-based upright bassist Jen Hodge leads a rotating cast of local and visiting musicians through a night of high energy traditional jazz music...

Take a stroll down memory lane with VAMS musicians and special guests rocking to tunes from the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. Experience a fun and interactive evening filled with nostalgia to celebrate 30 great years of showing that disability is not a barrier to creativity.

Doors 7pm Show 9:30pm Pay-What-You-Can After 12 years of quietly sending ripples through the independent music scene, David Ward’s latest, a cinematic and soulful opus, Violet, Gold + Rose, has garnered support from some of the most respected artists in music. b Ward has spent the last two years between Vancouver, London and Berlin, building...

Ellen has been entertaining in film and TV for decades and now she is coming to Vancouver for A Conversation With Ellen DeGeneres at Rogers Arena October 19th!

Join Canadian Memorial United Church in celebrating its 90th anniversary with a special pipe organ concert featuring international and prize-winning organist Neil Cockburn. Celebrated for his diverse repertoire and expertise, Neil Cockburn performs an all-encompassing spectrum of solo organ recitals from all-Bach recitals, to symphonic programmes and concerts of entirely new works. The 90-year-old organ...

New New Music Curator Aram Bajakian’s first concert in the Luxe nods to DB Boyko’s 24 years of inspiring work with voice. New York Times critic, Ben Ratlif, called vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Jen Shyu’s concerts “The most arresting performances I’ve seen over the past five years. It’s not just the meticulous preparation of the work...

Doors 7pm Show 10pm Pay-What-You-Can Ryan Guldemond, Mike Young and Ali Siadat of local indie rockers Mother Mother are joined by friends, enemies and formless entities for an evening swim in endless streams of consciousness.

Doors 7pm Show 10pm Pay-What-You-Can Los Duendes is Vancouver’s very own Psych Latin Fusion group. Infectious tropical rhythms intertwined with spicy Latin melodies designed make people get uplifted and groove. Tener Duende loosely means having soul, a heightened state of emotion, expression and authenticity. The artistic and especially musical term was derived from the Duende,...

Please join us on Sunday, October 21 at 4 pm for our monthly Taizé-style contemplative candlelight service in the acoustically beautiful historic church sanctuary. Musicians Jocelyn Pritchard (piano), Pete Matthews (viola), Andrew Wilson (vocals), Alexandra Scott (vocals), and Adrienne Wills (flute) provide musical leadership. The service is comprised of beautiful music, Taizé songs, silences, and...

On October 21st, join us in the parlour for Tango Toward the Sea, a flute and guitar program featuring music from France, Argentina, and Japan. Two of Vancouvers most acclaimed solo and collaborative players, flautist Mark McGregor and guitarist Adrian Verdejo combine forces for what promises to be an excellent afternoon concert.

The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC presents the boisterous cheer of Balkan virtuoso Goran Bregović and his Wedding and Funeral Band on Sunday, October 21, 2018, at 7pm in the Chan Shun Concert Hall. Described as “a musical spectacle unlike anything else on North American stages” (San Francisco Chronicle), the dynamic artist...

Presented by “Players & Singers” TWO SHOWS: 3pm and 8pm The greatest masterpiece of the English Baroque, Dido and Aeneas has some of the most wonderful characters and arias in the operatic repertoire. Based on the Virgil epic, the story recounts the brief courtship between Queen Dido of Carthage and Prince Aeneas of Troy. 

Doors 7pm Show 8pm Pay-What-You-Can Meiwa has performed alongside legends such as Jim Byrnes, Ken Boothe, Leroy “Heptones” Sibbles, Barrington Levy, Lee “Scratch” Perry, and Toots and the Maytals. Other internationally acclaimed artists Meiwa has performed with include Shaggy, Easy Star All Stars, and Taj Weekes and Adowa. Meiwa is currently based in Melbourne, Australia,...

Doors 9pm Show 9:30pm Pay-What-You-Can Two beloved Vancouver keys players from the R&B/fusion scene share the stage for a special one-night-only show full of fat grooves, cosmic synth jams, and soulful chord progressions. With combined experience playing with some of the city’s top artists, these keyboard wizards will blow your mind. Featuring: Jonny Tobin –...

Doors 7pm Show 9:30pm Pay-What-You-Can Sam Pace was born and raised in Milwaukee, WI. Growing up he quenched his musical thirst with everything from oldies to classic rock to golden age hip-hop. When he picked up the guitar at age 15 he had simultaneously began his love affair with the blues. In March 2015, Sam...

Doors 7pm Show 9:30pm Pay-What-You-Can Sam Pace was born and raised in Milwaukee, WI. Growing up he quenched his musical thirst with everything from oldies to classic rock to golden age hip-hop. When he picked up the guitar at age 15 he had simultaneously began his love affair with the blues. In March 2015, Sam...

Doors 7pm Show 8pm Admission $20 Intimate and interactive, The Darlings Cabaret is a Rock & Roll based dance show that also combines elements of blues, jazz, and soul. A modern cabaret show that fuses together an edgy rock flavour with the feel of the golden age supper club era. High-energy, gritty, whimsical, classy, sensual,...

Join HOT JAZZ JAM for a night of swingin’ hot jazz & super fun dancing at ANAF298 this Tuesday (OCT 23)! **YES! HOT JAZZ JAM Tuesdays is BACK TO ANAF298!!** Noah Gotfrit & Friends feat. James Danderfer will heat up Hot Jazz Jam at ANAF298 with awesome swinging rhythm and hot NOLA jazz this Tuesday!...

Doors 9pm Show 9:30pm Pay-What-You-Can Canadian Guitar Legend Tony Wilson brings his talent stacked Quartet to Guilt & Company. Tony is joined by J.P. Carter (trumpet) Skye brooks (drums) Russell Sholberg (bass).

An evening of R&B and Latin Jazz, is a fundraising event for Venezuelan refugees organized by Action for Venezuela on behalf of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Special presentations by: Dutch Robinson and his band, maestros at delivering a powerful, soulful, and heartfelt performance with a mix of both classic Soul covers...

Doors 9pm Show 9:30pm Pay-What-You-Can It’s Wednesday! Time to get your swing on, so strap on your dancing shoes and join us at Guilt & Co for a night of jazzy goodness! Vancouver-based upright bassist Jen Hodge leads a rotating cast of local and visiting musicians through a night of high energy traditional jazz music...