Tofino Concerts
by Adam Buskard, Tofino
The following concerts in Tofino are happening this month. Tickets are available at Tofitian, Long Beach Market (Esso) and at the Common Loaf.Also check our Tofino events for listings of all local events and the Tofino festival page for our festival event calendar.
Patricia Hoy with Alexander Suleiman
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Clayoquot Sound Theatre
Call 725-3373, Doors 7:30pmAn evening of Brahms, Rachmaninov & Piazzolla with cellist Alexander Suleiman, winner of the Brahms International Competition and critically acclaimed pianist Patricia Hoy. Patricia Hoy has won numerous competitions and was the inaugural recipient of the Los Angeles Arts Council Distinguished Young Artist Award. Cellist Alexander Suleiman has been praised by the press as "a soloist who fascinates musicians and audience alike with unique and powerful interpretations that at first shock by their newness and then delight as their logic reveals new realms of meaning". He has won several first prizes in the piano and cello categories.
Nation Beat
Friday, March 14, 2008
Tofino Legion
Tix $15 • Doors 9:00 pmThis Brooklyn-based group has taken the seemingly impossible task of melding Afro- Brazilian rhythms of Maracatu, with the funk and jazz from New Orleans. They are rhythm gatherers, harvesting the fruit of 500 years of cultural cross-breeding, which is why the sounds of the northeast of Brazil and the southern United States blend together so seamlessly. Nation Beat performs with an indispensable audacious energy, and seamlessly bridges folkloric Brazilian rhythms with classic American roots music. Rising Brazilian star Liliana Araujo fronts the ensemble with her soaring powerhouse vocals. Rolling Stone Brazil ran a photo of Liliana when the publication listed Nation Beat's track "Old Wooden Chair" as the #1 track on their Hot List.
Sabir Sisters
Monday, March 17, 2008
Weigh West
Tix $5 • Doors 9:00 pmFrom deep in the heart of British Columbia's Fraser Valley come these four young sisters, multi-instrumentalists, singers, songwriters, and step dancers. Lead Fiddler, composer, and vocalist, eldest sister Shamma was the first female, and youngest B.C. nominee to place in Canada's top eleven at the National Grand Masters Championships in Ottawa. Sarah, the second eldest, brings her experience from the Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra to influence the group with a classical twist with fiddle, base and percussion. Roxanna, pianist, fiddler and guitarist, leads the group with her haunting vocals while the youngest in the group, Laila, is known not only for her gift for fiddling but for her high-stepping dance routines.
Tina Jones
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Tofino Community Hall
Tix $30 • Doors 9:00 pmTina Jones' style allows for the traditions of souland r&b masters to meld with the provocative and intuitive techniques of jazz, hip hop, and deep house. Her reputation as a recording artist, entertainer and songwriter are recognized throughout Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands, the Sunshine Coast and Lower Mainland music scenes. On stage and in the studio, she has the ability to execute breath taking vocal performances along with adept improvisational abilities on the trumpet, fluegelhorn, and piano. With a roster of talented musicians, the Tina Jones Band's dynamic is evident; communication, skill and flow are paramount. The sound result is funky with a jazz influenced nuance that satisfies not only the avid music appreciator but also gets people dancing with r&b elements.
Jill & Matthew Barber
Friday, March 21, 2008
Tofino Legion
Tix $15 • Doors 9:00 pmSister Jill and brother Matthew have set out from their homes in Halifax for a North American Sibling Revelry tour. Both are very accomplished and acclaimed artists in their own right. 2007 was a landmark year for Jill Barber. Back in February she took home two East Coast Music Awards for Best Female Solo Artist and Album of the Year and this year she's nominated for 2 Junos. Matthew just finished recording his latest album Ghost Notes which was recorded at the infamous Bathouse Studio. The Sibling Revelry Tour will see the Barbers backed by The Sevilles, featuring Paul Mathew on upright bass and Les Cooper on piano, guitar and mandolin. If you are a lover of real music this is not a show to miss.
Ken Lavigne
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Clayoquot Sound Theatre
Call (250) 725-3373 • Doors 7:30pmEqually at home in the classical tenor repertoire, Lavigne returns to his first love, the musical theatre, performing a program of beautiful melodies, mixed with Neopolitan love songs and familiar contemporary tenor ballads. Founding member of Romanza, Lavigne has toured the uk and us and performed with the Victoria Symphony and for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. He charmed audiences at the 2007 Pacific Rim Summer Festival in Tofino.
You Say Party! We Say Die!
Friday, April 4, 2008
Tofino Legion
Tix: $ 12 • Doors 9:00pmVancouver’s resident dance-punk savants You Say Party! We Say Die! are a catalyst on the edge of a scene brimming towards explosion; hybridized, mechanized, philosophizing machines that have learned self-awareness and found their soul. Self-styled pioneers and genre-warriors alike are noticing that this is a band taking on the world on their own terms. They are reaching a fever pitch in Vancouver's indie rock scene with their insanely catchy beats and viciously fun live show. Reminiscent of the vocal stylings of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, YSP! built upon textured melodic ideas that complimented their spastic, but richly diverse rock riffs. YSP!'s perpetually dance-inducing tracks have gained them considerable attention amoung the dance rock scene in Vancouver, so much that theyve found themselves opening for Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Blood Brothers, North of America, SNFU and DOA.
Julie Doiron
Friday, April 11, 2008
Tofino Legion
Tix: $ 10 • Doors 9:00pmJulie Doiron began her career in music in 1990 at the age of 18 in Moncton, New Brunswick Canada playing bass in Eric's Trip, a folky yet psychedelic band that was to become the undisputed underground darling of Canadian Music. Julie began to write more of her own songs in 1993 which she released on 7" and performed solo while still in Eric's trip. With her dark, stripped-down guitar figures and quivering barely enunciated soprano that sounds like she's singing to herself and no one else, Julie touches your most vulnerable points. Julie won a Juno Award in 2000 for her album "Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars." Julie manages to be as painfully honest as songwriting icons like Johnny Cash and Hank Williams, though her lyrical candor is coupled with a fragile voice and plunky guitar.
Heavyweight Dub Champion
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Tofino Legion
Tix: $ 12 • Doors 9:00pmCreated in the mountains of Colorado and now based in San Francisco, Heavyweight Dub Champion is firmly rooted in Hip Hop, Dancehall, Dub and Electronic music. They are one of the most exciting live PA performances in the world.
The Heavyweight Dub Champion experience is like no other musical liberation movement. A live mix on 50 channels of audio featuring 3 shamanistic sonic alchemists - Resurrector, Patch and Totter Todd. Their passion is powerfully represented in music, words, visual art, and video.
Through the use of ancient divination practices and sonic vibration, HDC+ brings the audience into a hypnotic trance that opens channels and empowers the listener. While in this state, HDC+ infiltrates minds and removes layers of deception, thus enabling Truth to flourish.
This collective artistic performance is called the Liberation Process.
Buck 65
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Tofino Legion
Tix: $20 • Doors 9:00pmBuck 65 started out as a b-boy back in '82 but today this no-nonsense white boy is the Jimmy Castor of hip hop. Handling production, lyrics, and Djing duties by himself, Buck may be the man to single-handedly rescue hip hop. Many regarded Buck as somewhat of a weirdo because his subject matter includes fashion design, freestyle bmx, baseball, and ichthyology. Maybe he's a throwback, maybe he's the future, but you can't hear any death threats or hollow boasting coming from this honky. Forget about it. This is music that picks up where the rap performance in Revenge of the Nerds left off. Born in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, Buck 65 spent the majority of his adolescence as a self-described b-boy. He eventually moved to Halifax in 1989, where he founded a seminal hip-hop show on local college radio.
Sweatshop Union
Friday, May 16, 2008
Tofino Legion
Tix: $15 • Doors 9:00pmSweatshop Union is not just a hip hop group with diverse vocal styles and crisp, soulful beats--they are the breath of fresh air that hip hop fans have been waiting for. Originally operating as four independent units (Kyprios, Dirty Circus, Creative Minds, and Innocent Bystanders), the Sweatshop Union Collective came together to offer an alternative to the seemingly repetitive, negative-natured release of rap music.
Hey Ocean
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Tofino Legion
Tix: $15 • Doors 9:00pmHey Oceans mellow guitar grooves, eargasmic vocals, and upbeat jazzy licks keep listeners comfortably sitting, standing, or dancing, while they are washed out to sea and carefully brought back to shore. Passionate voices, pensive words, and frivolous fun keep this music honest and pure: from the heart, for the soul.
The quartet draws on influences from folk, reggae, funk, jazz, rock, hip hop, and more delivering finely crafted pop and funky freeform jams. Their music also borrows from several world music genres; due to the band members travels in Central America, Nepal, China and Europe.
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