Edmonton Events

Canada’s only active university record label – kicks off with a celebratory launch party and concert, April 6, 2017, 7 to 9 pm at the John L. Haar Theatre, at MacEwan University’s Centre for the Arts and Communications. The launch will feature performances by three of Bent River’s inaugural recording artists: • Mallory Chipman performing from her release, Nocturnalize, • Kent Sangsters Obsessions Octet with selections from their third recording, Steppin’ Up, • Acid Bunny (Jean-Nicolas Trottier) with songs from their release, High School Fantasy. Free - RSVP - at eventbrite

The Edmonton Jazz Festival Society is set to host its annual benefit event, Spring Spectacular, an evening of unforgettable jazz featuring Juno-award winning singer Emilie-Claire Barlow and the Edmonton Jazz Orchestra. Tickets for Performance only are $40 + service fees, Tickets for Dinner are $135 + service fees. The Spring Spectacular will provide guests with the option of attending solely as a concert-goer or, to add a dinner component to their evening, enjoy a three-course meal before the show. The event offers many elements for patrons including both live and silent auctions. All proceeds of this event will be used in support the EJFS outreach initiatives, including: Jazzworks Workshops, Jazz In Schools, Edmonton Jazz Orchestra, and the Edmonton Jazz Collective. These initiates were developed by the Edmonton Jazz Festival Society to promote jazz in the community as well as support developing musicians.

FRI APRIL14 at The Chvrch of John w/ SWIM JOSES MARTIN DUSTY GROOVES & MIKEY WONG $7 Advance/ $10 at the Door Doors 9pm $9 Absolut Doubles All Night

YEG Music is proud to present: MelAfrique with Landry Rap Music, Grace Miazga, and Abandon Your Town, live at Mercury Room Yeg on April 15, 2017. Doors open @ 7:30 PM Music starts @ 8:30 PM Tickets available online (http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1442714) and at the door. Tickets are $15 each ahead of the event and $20 at the door, or you can bring a new or gently used hoodie or jacket instead which will be donated to YESS. *Cash & Debit Accepted at Front Door* If you have any questions/concerns/comments please email kristinyegmusic@gmail.com

Live Rhythm and Blues, Soul Music, Doo-Wop, Funk and Rock & Roll Motown Legends

The Community Refugee Committee of St. Albert cordially invites you to attend our second fundraising concert on Friday, April 21 at 7 pm to help raise money for sponsoring refugees. This concert offers a taste of world music with musicians from the Middle East, North Africa, China, India, and of course Canada ~ music transcends...

Come out for a Toe Tapping Good Time with the Canadian Country Music Legends and Canadian Idol Runner-up Jaydee Bixby! New Location – 2 New Performers – 4 Hour Concert in support of the Resident Comfort Fund. Tickets $30.00ea or $35.00ea at the Door. Tickets available from Whispering Waters 5303-47 Street, Stony Plain or Romantic...

Both Festival City Winds Intermediate Bands, under the direction of Artistic Director Wendy J. Grasdahl, play some Ragtime & Riffs on Saturday, April 22, 2017 at 7:30PM in the Robert Tegler Centre, Concordia University of Edmonton (7128 Ada Boulevard – 73 St. south of 112 Ave.). The bands are also pleased to welcome the Stephen Stone Percussion Trio as their special guests for the evening. From ragtime and folksongs to slightly more modern rock riffs, there is sure to be something to transport the audience back to an earlier time. The Intermediate Two Band will explore the swing music of a Chicago gangster’s private night club (David Weirich’s Diamond Joe’s Riviera Club), folksongs, Debussy’s Golliwogg’s Cakewalk, the theme from the movie The Great Escape, and a fast-paced musical ride in William Owens’ Cruisin’. The Intermediate One Band will explore Scott Joplin’s music from the movie The Sting, Brian Balmages’ That Old Hound Dog Rag (inspired by his two lively and zany dogs, Toby and Angel), and an arrangement of The Beatles’ classic song When I’m Sixty-Four. The Stephen Stone Percussion Trio will dazzle the audience with three people playing the marimba at the same time, and many other awe-inspiring performances. Tickets for Ragtime & Riffs are $12 for Adults and $5 for Children (12 & Under), and can be purchased at the door.

The clarinet students from the University of Alberta will be performing their fourth annual clarinet studio showcase. This group, under the study of Don Ross and Julianne Scott, contains members from the Ceremonial Guard, Edmonton Youth Orchestra, and various university music ensembles. The recital features a variety of clarinet pieces by Schmitt, Weber, Lowry, and many more. Come see Adriana Jankovic, Claire Neilson, Elizabeth Smith, Linnea Signore, Nadya Ajani, Meijun Chen, Bailey Hansen, Kassandra Tchir, Marina Powers and Jacob Eisenstat perform an evening of diverse clarinet music. There will be a reception to follow in the Arts Lounge. Admission is by donation.

Opus@12 presents "Arrival of the Queen of Sheba". Chamber music by Handel, Haydn, Purcell, Villa-Lobos and others. Free admission. Informal setting. Great for families with young children etc.

This show offers the best music by the two greatest piano singer/songwriters, Billy Joel and Elton John, delivered by two of the most accomplished performers Canada has to offer, Mick Dalla-Vee and Michael Sicoly!

The Edmonton Winds invites you to join us for an afternoon of music, as we travel back through time and experience the timeless favourites of the British rule, spanning from King Henry VIII, all the way to Queen Elizabeth II, as well as the premiere of a Clarinet Concerto written by Canadian Composer Elizabeth Raum, featuring Don Ross.

Helix, Canadian Heavy Metal rockers bring to the stage their greatest hits "Rock You", "Heavy Metal Love", "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'" and more! Kick Axe, one of the best heavy rock groups to come out of Canada in the eighties, performs such hits as "Heavy Metal Shuffle", "On the Road to Rock", and "Rock The World"!

The Rotary Club of Edmonton invites you, your office, your family & your friends to a luncheon near and dear to the hearts of many. The luncheon beneficiaries will be those who live in the intercity who are vulnerable and facing challenges. This event is open to the public, please consider joining Leslie MacDonald as she MC's this fundraiser with entertainment by Tommy Banks and PJ Perry. Parking: NO FEE, Courtesy of Chateau Lacombe Hotel

They say the neon lights are bright, there’s always magic in the air….On Broadway! Experience the glitter and magic for yourself at the Edmonton Columbian Choirs Night on Broadway. Enjoy a delicious dinner while being serenaded by the songs of some of the biggest Broadway and classic pop hits. This show will be the perfect ending to an exciting 50th Anniversary Season of Edmonton’s Family of Choirs.

Here’s To Song! Presented by the St. Albert Singers Guild What do strawberry gelato, a Carpenter's song, kazoos, strawberry candy and Amazing Grace have in common? Come and find out in this unique and compelling tribute to Canada's 150th birthday celebration by way of a fun-filled and delightful strawberry social hosted by the two choirs of the St Albert Singers Guild. What a great way to spend some time with friends and family around a table together listening to songs that will rock your socks and move your soul while discovering unexpected facts and fun trivia about Canada....not to mention, door prizes! Call 780-418-4184 for more information. May 12 at 7:30, May 13 at 2:30 and 7:30. $20 ticket - general seating at Al Shamal Shriner's Centre www.stalbertsingers.org

Juno award winning BIT FUNK makes his SWEAT debut Friday May 12th at Nightjar YEG. $15 presale tickets ensure guaranteed entry AND a voucher for a beverage is included in the price! Entertainment starts at 8PM with DJS: Joses Martin | Polyesterday | Rudy Roman | Will Hempfree Visuals by: Foxy Smulders

Three Edmonton acts who landed tracks on Bristol, UK-based digitalDIZZY Records play a special early show engagement with a focus on ambience and experimentation. Admission $5 at the door.

On Friday, May 19 and Saturday, May 20, 2017, six string players from across Canada will take to the stage of Muttart Hall at the Alberta College Campus of MacEwan University (10050 MacDonald Drive, Edmonton) as they vie for the $8,000 top prize in The Shean Strings Competition and the opportunity to play with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra at a later date. The competition will see the competitors perform their String Recital Programs on Friday, May 19 from 1:00 – 4:00 PM and 6:30 – 9:30 PM, and perform their String Concertos on Saturday, May 20 from 2:00 – 4:00 PM and 6:30 – 8:30 PM. The adjudications and awards will follow the concertos on Saturday at approximately 9:00 PM, and a reception will follow the awards. This year’s competitors (with hometowns in parentheses) are: Shang Ko (Sunny) Chan, violin (Surrey, BC); Gabrielle Després, violin (Edmonton, AB); Sean Gao, violin (Burnaby, BC); Alice Lee, violin (Toronto, ON); Grace Sohn, violoncello (Coquitlam, BC), and Grace Takeda, viola (North Vancouver, BC). The adjudicators for this year’s competition are: David Hoyt, Chair; Norman Adams, violoncello; and Edmonton-born Jessica Linnebach, violin. Admission to The Shean Strings Competition is $10 per day.

Chamber music by Mancini, Piazolla, Telemann and others. Informal concert great for all. Young children are welcome! Bring your lunch or grab a bite at Café Bicyclette.

In 2 minutes & 42 seconds, Chubby Checker revolutionized pop culture and changed the music business forever. When he appeared on American Bandstand in 1960 and performed "The Twist", it was the dawn of a new era in Rock and Roll. Chubby stands alone as a one-of-a-kind Rock icon, who has had 36 hit records, int he only artist to have a single go to #1 twice, and, according to Billboard, has the #1 Single of the decade in the 60's!

Live Eagles Tribute

Festival City Winds (Adult Concert Bands), under the direction of Artistic Director Wendy Grasdahl, invites you to experience an evening of musical Post Cards taking place on Saturday, May 27, 2017 at 7:30PM in the Robert Tegler Centre, Concordia University of Edmonton (7128 Ada Boulevard – 73 St. south of 112 Ave.). The evening concert will feature all four Festival City Winds’ concert bands — Novice Band; Intermediate 2 Band; Intermediate 1 Band; Advanced Band — each performing their own selections. The bands will be conducted by Wendy J. Grasdahl and Dr. Eila Peterson. There will be a reception following the concert as well as door prizes. The evening’s program will transport the listener around the world with a variety of musical post cards. Listeners will be taken to England with “The Earl of Oxford’s March” and “Three London Miniatures” (which includes an expressive, lyrical tribute to the late Princess Diana); to the Spanish countryside with “Visions of Aranjuez”; to Latin America with a tango call “The Blue Orchid”; to Egypt with “Sun Cycles”; to the USA with “American Overture” and “Diamond Joe’s Riviera Club” (taking the listener inside a Chicago gangster’s private night club); to Greece with “One Night in Athens”; to Vancouver Island with “Cathedral Grove”; and out to sea with “The High Barbaree: Songs of the Sea”. Tickets for Post Cards are $12 for Adults and $5 for Children (12 and under), and can be purchased at the door.

On May 28 the Edmonton Youth Choir presents a very special concert, In Our Dreams. Together with the award-winning Coastal Sound Youth Choir and the Edmonton Children’s Choir, the choirs will explore the world of dreams – imaginations, hopes, and visions. From the exhilaration of Eric Whitacre’s “Leonardo Dreams of his Flying Machine” to the tranquility of Ēriks Ešenvalds’ “Only in Sleep”, the music will probe humanity’s ability to explore our world via the imagination. The concert features works by Canadian composers Lavinia Kell Parker, Jeff Enns, James Rolfe, Cy Giacomin and Robin John King, as well as pieces by Hans Leo Hassler, Orlando Gibbons, Ivo Antognini, Jan Sandström, Jake Runestad, Shawn Kirchner and more. This is going to be an enchanting concert and it’s all in the fabulous setting of the Hawrelak Park Amphitheatre. May 28 is also the CD Release Concert for Playing with Fire – the latest CD recording of the Edmonton Youth Choir. Playing with Fire was recorded over three seasons and includes music prepared for tours to the Baltic Region and South Africa, and for competitions in Canada and the World Choir Games - where the choir won two gold medals. CDs will be available for purchase at the intermission and after the concert.