BY HEART: POETRY RECITAL and MUSIC
SATURDAY, 27 APril 2024 | DOORS AT 14:30, Words and MUSIC FROM 15:00
By Heart is a poetry recital, hosted by writers Rachel Rose and Aislinn Hunter, followed by a musical performance by singer/songwriter Molly Annelle. What will be recited? Poems published before 2000 and not written by the reciter. Who will recite? You can! Or not. Follow the link below to get the full skinny.
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JAMES HOULAHAN
FRIDAY, 7 JUNE 2024 | DOORS AT 19:30, MUSIC FROM 20:00
Join us for an evening with acclaimed Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter James Houlahan. James has produced a substantial body of work, including six albums over the past twelve years, since devoting himself full-time to presenting his own music. James puts substance over style, in a voice beautifully described by Glide Magazine as “rustic open-heartedness”. His work is is often driven by bluesy chops or floated over acoustic guitar rhythms that could have come straight from a 1960s Greenwich Village coffee house or West Texas roadhouse. This alchemy of Americana has made James a mainstay of the Indie scene in LA.
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MEDUSA QUARTET
FRIDAY, 26 JUNE 2024 | DOORS AT 19:30, MUSIC FROM 20:00
Wielding a sound that would turn classical music scholars to stone, these four folk musicians are reimagining the Western string quartet. By reviving string timbres previously regarded as too ugly for “polite society,” Medusa tempts us to redefine what is beautiful.
Since their formation, this adventurous quartet of Georgia Hathaway, Lea Kirstein, Marta Sołek, and Saskia Tomkins have been slaying all across Canada, including at Vancouver’s own Rogue Folk Club and in the showcases at this year’s Canadian Folk Music Awards in St. John’s, where their debut album was shortlisted for album of the year.
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SARAH JANE SCOUTEN
MONDAY, 15 JUly 2024 | DOORS AT 19:30, MUSIC FROM 20:00
Sarah Jane Scouten is a Canadian folk and Americana songwriter. Her songs are musically steeped in history, paying homage to 60s and 70s country songwriters, British folk revival, and bluegrass and old time music; but we can also hear the impact of her move in 2019 to the hills of southwest Scotland. Lyrically, she is grounded in the present and her work is emotionally resonant and poetically deft. Sarah Jane is touring her fifth album, Turned to Gold, released in the Fall of 2023, and we are lucky to have her bringing her work and spirit back to Canada.
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