Keep Musical Productions presents Doug Cox, followed by Todd Butler. This double-bill concert will be at the Haven’s Phoenix Auditorium on Saturday, February 13th, at 7:30pm.
Doug Cox is an all-round roots renaissance man. The slide guitar and dobro master has carved out an amazingly diverse career as a recording artist and touring musician playing [...]
Keep Musical Productions invites you to hear Corwin Fox, followed by Jennifer Scott with Rene Worst. This double-bill concert will be on Friday, February 12th at 7:30, at the Haven’s Phoenix Auditorium.
Corwin Fox is well-known for his masterful lyric and melody writing, and his unique style of highly contagious personal and political folk songs, Corwin [...]
Here’s your chance to help victims of the earthquake in Haiti: join Gabriola musicians at the Gabriola Community Hall for a fundraising concert on Sunday, January 24th, at 7:30pm. (Doors open at 6:45pm.)
This Island to Island benefit includes Victory Anthony & friends, Bob & Gee Bossin, John & Ken Capon & Saburo Murata, Gary Fjellgaard, [...]
The legendary Cougar Annie (see www.boatbasin.org) will be brought to life on Friday, January 29th at the Gabriola Coffeehouse (see event time, place, price) as Katrina Kadoski brings her original songs, stories and pictures of the person and place to us.
As caretaker at Cougar Annie’s Garden, in its spectacular setting of coastal rainforest in [...]
Sarah Tradewell will play at the Roxy on Saturday, January 30th, with special guest Victor Anthony. Sarah is a dazzling young fiddler from Victoria. She plays traditional Irish tunes (and whatever else strikes her fancy) with a few vocal numbers in the mix as well. Victor will play a short set of trad material to [...]
The Haints, with the Fiddlesniffers opening, will play at at The Roxy on Thursday, January 21st at 7:30pm.
The Haints play old-time stringband music, both songs and tunes. These are four world-class musicians in this traditional style (Pharis Romero, Jason Romero, Erynn Marshall and Carl Jones). The Fiddlesniffers (Victor Anthony and Alison Humphries) play hillbilly chamber [...]
Tune In and Tune Up will happen on the weekend of February 12th to 14th at the Haven. The invitation says:
This weekend includes workshops, concerts and merriment. With guest instructors: Jennifer Scott (Vocal Technique/VocalHarmony/Vocal Improv), Doug Cox (Slide in D, Fingerstyle Picking, Dobro), Corwin Fox (Mando, Clawhammer banjo, Songwriting), Todd Butler (Flat picking, Performance Skills, [...]
Poetry Gabriola presents Veda Hille and Her Band: Do You Want What I Have Got?. This concert will be at the Haven on Saturday, January 9th at 7pm. Tickets are 20.00 and are available at Artworks and through the Poetry Gabriola website.
Here’s more about the music from Poetry Gabriola:
A smash hit at the 2009 PUSH [...]
The Gabriola Chamber Ensemble presents Music and Poetry of Place. Performances will be at the Gabriola United Church on Sunday, December 13th at 3 pm and 7:30 pm.
This is the first performance of the Gabriola Chamber Ensemble under its new director, Leah Hokanson. The ensemble will present a collection of musical works by various composers, [...]
Victor Anthony’s 3rd annual Concert For The Commons is set for Saturday, December 5th (and Sunday, December 6th) at The Roxy. All ticket proceeds will go to funding the many various projects both planned and ongoing at the Gabriola Commons.
Last year, Victor was joined onstage by Gabriola favourites Kathy McIntyre and Nathan Tinkham and this [...]
Mel Watson will perform at the Roxy on Saturday, November 21st at 7:30pm. (Doors open at 7pm.) The news release about this event says:
From her incarnation as a leading talent in the Australian sensation ‘Fruit’ to her recent solo work, Mel Watson is one of the most innovative indie artists to come out of [...]
Camp Cooks will play at Rasberry’s on Sunday, October 18th from 2 to 4pm. Musicians: Dale Graham, Vocals; Tim Kelly, Saxaphone; Ken Capon, Bass; Jerry Silver, Guitar.
Join Lulu on Thursday, October 22nd from 6 to 8 pm at the Surf Lodge. Get a burger and Lulu for only $10.00! Lulu says Join us as we celebrate a new season, and the launch of a new brew! (Lulu is proud to work with the Longwood Brewpub in Nanaimo to bring you what [...]
Garnet Rogers will play at The Roxy on Tuesday, October 13th at 7:30 pm.
Barely out of high school, Garnet Rogers was on the road as a full- time working musician with his older brother Stan. Together they formed what has come to be accepted as one of the most influential acts in North American folk [...]
Interested in West African drumming and dancing? This is for you. On Thursday, October 29th Thursday, October 22nd, Kocassale Dioubate (Griot, master drummer, and dancer from Guinea) will be on Gabriola for these workshops:
KC Kelly and Sandra Profitt will perform at the Gabriola Coffeehouse (at the Agi Hall) on Friday, August 28th.
KC Kelly has been described as bluesman with a delta feel…a consummate songwriter and instrumentalist
Here’s more from the event announcement:
Gary Fjellgaard will play two concerts at the Roxy: Wednesday, August 26th and Thursday, August 27th. Both concerts will start at 7:30pm.
Gary has samples of his music on his website, and information about his albums as well.
Tickets are 20.00 at Gabriola Artworks.
On Friday September 4th, singer/songwriter Victor Anthony will play a kitchen concert at The Roxy. This will be his first show on the island since last December and tickets usually go fast so don’t delay. What is a “kitchen concert” you ask? It just means that the gig will be informal, unplugged and Victor will [...]
This year’s Concert on the Green will be on August 6th at the Gabriola Golf and Country Club.
Gates open at 4 pm. At 5:15 pm the concert starts with music from Gabriola’s Ssvelt. At 6 pm the feature act begins: Bobby Bruce’s
Lloyd Arntzen and Tom Arntzen will play at the Surf Lodge on Saturday, July 25th at 7:30 pm. Tickets are 15.00 and are available at Artworks.
DraycottRoad.com has samples of Lloyd’s singing and a .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) ‘artist bio’ document that includes information about Lloyd and Tom. These musicians have their own websites, too: LloydArntzen.com and [...]
Sweatshop Union will play on Gabriola on Saturday, July 25th at 5pm; they’ll be at the Descanso Bay Park Outdoor Stage. Tickets are 18.00 in advance, and are available at Artworks. Tickets at the gate are 20.00.
Music samples are available on the Sweatshop Union website and on their MySpace page.
Gabriola’s ever-more-famous Kerplunks will be playing at the Descanso Bay Park Outdoor Stage on Saturday, July 25th. Their concert starts at 1:30 pm. Tickets are 5.00 per child, or 15.00 per family. (Get your tickets at Artworks.)
By now everybody on Gabriola knows that the Kerplunks are award-winning children’s entertainers. See the Kerplunks website or the [...]
If rockabilly and roots music is your kind of thing, don’t miss Cousin Harley. They’ll be at the Gabriola Community Hall on July 24th at 7:30 pm. Tickets are 18.00 at Artworks.
There’s lots of Cousin Harley on Youtube, waiting to tempt you towards those tickets.
On Thursday, July 23rd, The Message will play at the Surf Lodge. Tickets are 15.00 and are available at Artworks.
The group’s website explains that The Message explores the good vibes that Horace Silvers music evokes. We are going to celebrate, re-invent, and re-energize the brilliant musical legacy of Horace Silver.
Danny Schmidt will play at the Roxy on Thursday, July 23rd at 8pm. Here’s a bio blurb from Danny’s website:
Winner of the prestigious Kerrville New Folk award in 2007, Austin, TX-based singer/songwriter Danny Schmidt writes with a lyrical complexity and a style drawing comparisons to Townes Van Zandt and Leonard Cohen, leading Sing Out Magazine [...]