BURLESQUE COMES TO THE ISLAND! Chai Tease, Salt Spring Island born and raised, is bringing her burlesque company from Victoria, BC to her hometown! Come watch her dance the night away with her sisters in stripping, Jacqueline Daniels, Tommy Tricker and Ginger Vicious, and our favourite drag daddy, Oliver Clozoff! Come explore the world of […]
Backbeat Presents The Cavalcade of Stars – A Complete 60’s Music Experience! Backbeat Entertainment, in conjunction with RM Productions, is proud to present The 60’s Cavalcade of Stars – the greatest decade in music recreated! A live multi-media celebration, featuring the music of 6 of the world's greatest musical groups, lovingly performed by BackBeat, Canada's most […]
Backbeat Presents The Cavalcade of Stars – A complete 60’s music experience! BUY TICKETS Backbeat Entertainment, in conjunction with RM Productions, is proud to present The 60’s Cavalcade of Stars – the greatest decade in music recreated! A live multi-media celebration, featuring the music of 6 of the world's greatest musical groups, lovingly performed by BackBeat, […]
Mar 13 | Incorporating beautifully handcrafted puppets and an original pop/rock musical score, Cementland comes to life as two enigmatic garbage collectors tell the story of a very special boy whose singular wish is to find a TREASURE! One day, the boy discovers a rusty tin box packed with colorful envelopes and an old wrinkled […]
Featuring the return of Ariel Barnes, cello and Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet, we bring you music by Brahms, Messiaen and Canadian composer Joan Mackey that explores the edges of time. John Mackey Breakdown Tango Johannes Brahms Clarinet Trio in A minor, Opus 114 Olivier Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time Jane Hayes, piano Jose Franch-Ballester, […]
MET OPERA Now On Sale. LA FORZA DEL DESTINO | Giuseppe Verdi Mar 9 | 8:55am Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Verdi’s La Forza del Destino, with stellar soprano Lise Davidsen, following a string of recent Met triumphs, in her role debut as the noble Leonora. Director Mariusz Treliński delivers the company’s first new Forza in nearly […]
Mar 8 | An estimated five percent of jazz instrumentalists are women. In February 2022, Canadian bassist Jodi Proznick (JUNO nomination 2007, 2018) and pianist Amanda Tosoff (JUNO nomination 2022) decided to challenge the almost-exclusive male narrative by bringing together outstanding Canadian female jazz musicians, each one a composer and bandleader in her own right. […]
Mar 5 | Diyet & The Love Soldiers is an alternative country, folk, roots and traditional ensemble with catchy melodies and stories deeply rooted in Diyet’s Indigenous world view and northern life. She spent her childhood on the ancestral lands of the Kluane First Nation people in Canada’s Yukon Territory. Coming from a family rooted […]
The Legacy of Lightfoot was born out of an enduring respect and reverence for the iconic music of Gordon Lightfoot. Take a journey through one of the deepest and most prolific catalogues of songs ever written. Not only was Gordon Lightfoot one of the most skilled songwriters of his generation, but he had the voice […]
Feb 29 | The members of the quartet are violinists Adrian Steele and Phoenix Avalon, violist Devin Moore, and cellist Joshua McClendon. The four began as an ensemble at the Juilliard School, and following a break during the global pandemic reconvened at the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival in the summer of 2021 under the […]
Monday February 26, 2024 | Doors Open 6:30 | Presentations + Members Vote 7:00-8:00pm The 100 Women Who Care initiative was launched in 2006 as a simple, efficient, and effective collective fundraising model for charities. One hundred (or more) women each contribute $100 and vote for one of three nominated charities three times a year. […]
SS Film Festival presents "CALL ME DANCER," and award-winning film from India. In the bustling and competitive streets of Mumbai, a self-taught acrobatic dancer named Manish defies his working-class parents’ insistence that he follow a traditional path. “Dancing is a hobby for rich kids,” his cab-driver father tells him, counting on his only son’s future […]
Feb 18 | The Luce e Ombra project, “Light and Shadow,” brings together extracts from opera, a cantata, and instrumental pieces by the famous Venetian composer Antonio Vivaldi. These exceptionally beautiful works are a little in his image, all in contrasts: chiaroscuro, sadness-gaiety, exuberant despair-joy, all sprinkled with characteristic oddities which pleasantly spice up his […]
Feb 16-17 | Get ready to jump to your feet and sing along! The Buddy Holly Concert is a dynamic two-act show featuring Zachary Stevenson in a dead-ringer performance of the famed rock-and-roller with such hits as “That’ll Be the Day,” “Peggy Sue,” and “True Love Ways.” Stevenson presents Buddy Holly so perfectly we seem […]
Feb 10 | As one reviewer said, “Joëlle Rabu is Edith Piaf, Bette Midler, and Carole Burnett all rolled into one extraordinary performer. Her passion-filled voice is spine-tingling and her stage presence electric.” Known for her ability to delve into several musical styles, Rabu’s interpretation of classic European cabaret-style tunes and jazz melodies, her rich […]
SS Film Festival presents "20,000 Species of Bees," award winning film from Spain. What if your child is not the child you think you know? Over the course of an idyllic summer vacation in the beautiful Basque countryside, a sculptor grapples with her identity as an artist in this intimate and understated Spanish film, as […]
Feb 3 | Victoria Symphony presents a Saturday matinee entitled “Transfigured Night,” an early, overtly romantic program with musical echoes of Brahms, Wagner, Mahler, and Richard Strauss. Taking the helm is dynamic music director and charismatic conductor Christian Kluxen, now in his seventh season with the Victoria Symphony, and largely regarded as one of the most […]
From Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet to the Russian composer Babajanian to the great Brahms, this piano trio program will speak directly to the heart. Sergei Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet for Solo Piano: Young Juliet, Mercutio, Romeo & Juliet Arno Babajanian Piano Trio in F sharp minor Johannes Brahms Piano Trio in B major Opus 8 […]
