SONGROOTS INSTRUCTOR CONCERT
FRIDAY, 4 September 2026 | DOORS AT 19:30, MUSIC FROM 20:00
THIS IS A SOLD OUT EVENT
As SongRoots Summer Camp completes its 13th year, it will close the festivities off with a Vancouver show featuring its world class instructors: Dawn Pemberton (Vancouver), Gideon Crevoshay (Vermont), Jennifer Scott (Vancouver), Jenny Lester (Vancouver Island), Kali Paguirigan (Colorado), Kathy Bullock (Vermont), Lexi Ugelow (Massachusetts), Lysander Jaffe (Massachusetts), MÃ iri Britton (Cape Breton), Moira Smiley (Vermont), Mollie Stone (Chicago), and Karla Mundy (Vancouver).
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ITAMAR EREZ
SATURDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER 2026 | DOORS AT 19:30, MUSIC FROM 20:00
THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT
Vancouver’s Itamar Erez is an internationally celebrated composer and guitarist whose musical inspirations are also broad and cherished. Itamar blends the delicateness of Middle Eastern music, the freedom of jazz, and the passion of flamenco, creating a distinctive sound all his own.
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CLARA SHANDLER
FRIDAY, 23 OCTOber 2026 | DOORS AT 19:30, MUSIC FROM 20:00
THIS IS A GIFT ECONOMY EVENT
Vancouver’s Clara Shandler performs under the modest moniker Sidewalk Cellist; but we think of her more as a scenic highway cellist. She’s a songwriter of haunting melodies which skate just to the romantic side of edgy, on which sit direct, socially resonant lyrics, and under which pulses deeply soulful playing. She also composes instrumental pieces which have a punky classical feel, eschewing the stark minimalism and dissonances of modernism while feeling absolutely contemporary.
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DANIEL CAINER AND BOB BOSSIN
SUNDAY, 25 OCTOber 2026 | DOORS AT 13:30, MUSIC FROM 14:00
TTHIS IS A TICKET EVENT (DETAILS SOON)
The UK’s Daniel Cainer and Gabriola’s Bob Bossin are elegant, sophisticated, funny, poignant, brilliantly literate songwriters. As Bob might say, they’ve been doing this a long time — and they are exceptionally good at it. Come for an afternoon of songs that matter.
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The Rogue Folk Club Presents: CAROLINE KEENE AND TOM DELANY
SATURDAY, 7 NOVember 2026 | DOORS AT 19:00, MUSIC AND READING FROM 19:30
THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT
Playing Irish traditional music on concertina and uilleann pipes, Caroline Keane & Tom Delany are a vibrant, young duo whose musical expression transcends their years. Their sound, deeply rooted in tradition yet bursting with energy and heart, is a compelling celebration of the music they were raised on.
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THE SODA CRACKES AND GUESTS: an East Van Gogos Benefit for the Stephen Lewis Foundation
SUNDAY, 1 November 2026 | DOORS AT 13:30, MUSIC FROM 14:00
THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT (DETAILS SOON)
Vancouver bluegrass and country swing mainstays The Soda Crackers (Sue Malcolm, Don Fraser, and Stu MacDonald) team up with special guests Michael Burniyat (fiddle), Mark Kilianski (banjo, guitar), and Jeremy Freeman (dobro) to present a torrid afternoon of music in support of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, which has provided decades essential services to the African grandmothers in 14 sub-Saharan countries who have been holding their families and communities together in the aftermath of the AIDS and COVID epidemics.
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KEVIN SPENST AND CATHERINE OWEN: READINGS FROM THEIR NEW WORKS
THURSDAY, 12 NOVember 2026 | DOORS AT 19:00, MUSIC AND READING FROM 19:30
THIS IS A FREE EVENT
Poets Kevin Spenst and Catherine Owen will read from their new works, which utilize a broad range of literary voicing — verse, narrative prose, inteview, essay — and photography to inquire about the nature of home and place. The fingerstyle guitar artistry of Chika Buston will open the evening.
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