Mon Jan 14
JD Organ Trio
Guilt & Co (9:30pm)
Playing you a mix of jazz, blues, funk, pop & latin, the unique & dynamic sound of the JD Organ trio, featuring the mighty Hammond organ, returns to Guilt & Company tonight
Tue Jan 15
Dustbowl Revival & Hot Club of Cowtown Celebrate The Band’s Music From Big Pink
Kay Meek Centre (7:30pm)
Joining for an evening of tribute to ‘The Bands’ 50th anniversary, Dustbowl Revival blends folk-Americana and Stax-era soul, while Hot Club of Cowtown combines hot jazz with Western swing.
Sureando
The Heatley (8pm)
Latin band Sureando entertains & delights with their take on classics by the Gipsy Kings and traditional Mexican folk & Cuban Son at the Heatley.
Wed Jan 16
VSO New Music Festival/Early Music Vancouver New Music for Old Instruments Thomas Tallis & “Missa Charles Darwin”
Christ Church Cathedral (7:30pm)
With two GRAMMY nominations and wide acclaim, New York Polyphony is one of the foremost vocal chamber ensembles active today. With repertoire ranging from Gregorian chant to cutting-edge compositions, they’ve been praised for a rich, natural sound that’s larger and more complex than the sum of its parts.
Mixtophonics 8
Lana Lou’s (7:30pm)
An evening of high-end sonic trip-hop by some of Vancouver’s best creative musicians in the funky surrounding of LanaLou’s.
Siobhan Walsh
Frankie’s Jazz Club (8pm)
As one of Vancouver’s most versatile and authentic vocalists, Siobhan is hitting hard with her soulful, resonant, and powerful voice. With flavours of R&B, neo-soul, and jazz, you’re bound to groove!
Thu Jan 17
Word Sound Have Powah by D’BI & PuSh Festival OPENING
Beaumont Studios (8pm)
Bridging musical traditions with the wider art world, D’BI combines early Jamaican dub with dancehall reggae, as well as Afrobeat, punk and performance art for a cultural converging political discourse of solo musical poetry. Followed by a (FREE) PuSh Festival Opening Night Party for the ages, featuring djs, dancing and pop-up performances by Vancouver’s Kimmortal & Immigrant Lessons.
Way North
Frankie’s Jazz Club (8pm)
Bringing together four musicians who love to use jazz and improvisation as a means of exploring folk and world music, Way North is the best kind of musical collaboration – born out of the joy of playing together.
Fri Jan 18
Tribute to Cannonball Adderly – Cory Weeds Quartet feat. Roy McCurdy
Frankie’s Jazz Club (8pm)
This marks the release of a historic recording from the late Cannonball Adderley and Weeds has assembled a hard swinging band, including the only living member of the original Swingin’ In Seattle date drummer, Roy McCurdy, to celebrate this historic release.
Quiet City #56 Hotham Sound label Showcase
Red Gate Arts Society (8pm)
Quiet City is a series of concerts in Vancouver focused on live performances of experimental, electronic and improvised music in a comfortable and intimate setting. #56 features performances by Alecsi, Dimir Standard, KR75 & C130 and Norm Chambers.
Performance Works (7pm)
The rhythm of dripping water, melodic air vibrato, mechanical groans and much more make up Tetsuya’s unconventional & widly inventive music. What looks like an elaborate science project onstage is actually a system for generating wonders and an experience so beguiling and unique as to redefine the very objects that are being used to generate them.
Sat Jan 19
VSO New Music Festival VSO plays John Luther Adams Become Ocean
Orpheum (730pm)
At times joyful, exploratory, awed, watchful, and even protective, take part in the VSO ‘s New Music Festival for a 3 part treat that makes use of natural sounds, and music that is a human response to the natural world. Emily Doolittle’s Reedbird; Jan Sandström’s Ocean Child, and John Luther Adams’ massive Become Ocean cautions us not to take our natural world for granted, while reveling in its majesty.
PuSh Festival ASUNA plays 100 Keyboards
Russian Hall (4pm & 8pm)
As each electronic note joins the others, the effect is choral—unceasing voices in a fluid mass of beautiful noise as sound artist ASUNA takes battery-powered, analogue keyboards and uses them to create waves of overlapping notes: the Moiré effect of superimposed patterns, here used musically.
Tribute to Cannonball Adderly Cory Weeds Quartet feat. Roy McCurdy
Frankie’s Jazz Club (8pm)
Marking the release of a historic recording from the late Cannonball Adderley. Swingin’ In Seattle: Live At The Penthouse finds the quintet at the height of its powers mere weeks before they would go into the Capitol Studios and record “Live At The Club,” that yielded the hit Mercy, Mercy, Mercy. Weeds has assembled a hard swinging band including the drummer on the Swingin’ In Seattle date and the only living member of the original quintet, drummer Roy McCurdy to celebrate this historic release.
Sun Jan 20
Jazz Vespers Siobhan Walsh
St. Andrew’s-Wesley (4pm)
If you’re looking for ambiance, look no further! Lead by Vancouver based vocalist, Siobhan Walsh, the Siobhan Walsh Group weaves its way from classic jazz standards, to smooth r&b hits with a gospelly groove and style that is uniquely their own!
PuSh Festival Marginal Consort
Performance Works (2pm)
Far apart and fully independent of each other with the audience as liberated as the performers, these four musicians come with enough instruments for an orchestra; acoustic, electronic, and quite a few are of the artists’ own invention. A sonic adventure of ambient, heavily manipulated music. Listeners are free to sit, lie down or move around as they see fit!
Two to Tango w. Jennifer Hayes & Steve Maddock
Frankie’s Jazz Club (8pm)
From swing to bossa nova to blues and ballads, this evening will be a fun, nostalgic, and entertaining program as veteran Vancouver jazz vocalists Jennifer Hayes and Steve Maddock pay tribute to some of the iconic jazz duos of the past.
