- Strumming, Drumming, and Tapping: an intercultural Jam Session -

Saturday, May 26 2012, 7:30 pm
Doors open at 7pm
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden
578 Carrall Street (at Pender)

Tickets | 604 662 3207 |
Info | 604 683 8240 |
| $15 general/ $10 student and senior|

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Banjo – Nick Hornbuckle
Sanxian – Qing Chang
Tap Dance – Danny Nielson

Erhu – Jirong Huang
Guitar – John Oliver
Percussion – Bruce Henzcel
Dr. Jan Walls as MC

Taps and Twang will bring together the sounds of ethnic traditional music fused with rhythmic dance. Audiences will experience the influences of old-time bluegrass from Nick Hornbuckle on banjo, classical Chinese sounds from Qing Chang on Chinese banjo and the unique style of tap dance from Danny Nielson accompanied by the ensemble on erhu, guitar and percussion.

Our eclectic group will be drawing inspiration from social networking and viral ideas to create new music. The performance is a response to a clip of influential international artist Agatsuma Hiromitsu that can be seen below

Contributing to the vast collection of instrumental works disseminated on the web, the ensemble continues the dialectical nature of online artistic collaboration.

The performers will demonstrate their mastered skills with solo performances to highlight their artistry and then present selected pieces in various unconventional arrangements. They will take time to display experimental innovations that occur during rehearsal and conclude the evening with a new piece. This tune will be the result of the creative opportunistic provided by our concert programming and will be a joint effort by the entire ensemble.

An intercultural jam session Taps and Twang is a collaborative presentation by the Vancouver Chinese Instrumental Music Society and the Dr. Sun Yat Sen Chinese Garden, aspiring to enrich Vancouver with vitality through events that showcase the beauty of diversity and intertwined stylistic identities.

Formed in 1989, the Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble is the first professional Chinese
Instrumental music group established in Canada. Our versatile group embraces the popular and the traditional music of China as well as western classical and contemporary fine art performed with Chinese instruments. Our approach is transformative in nature as each project incorporates innovative collaborations between our ensemble and artists contributing to this creative milieu. New music is created from our eclectic arrangements presenting Chinese instruments in a new light with each performance.

For more information please contact Angie@dkam.ca| Tel 604.683.8240 | Fax 604.683.7911 | www.vancouverchinesemusic.ca
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the City of Vancouver

溫哥華中華樂團與中山公園共同舉辦

踢踏铮铮

2012年5月26日（星期六）7時半
中山公園 | 578 Carrall Street
票價: 成人$15 / 學生, 耆英 $10

購票電話|604 662 3207| 或於當日在表演場所購買
查詢604 683 8240| vancouverchinesemusic.ca

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三弦﹕常青

班卓琴﹕Nick Hornbuckle
踢踏舞：Danny Neilson

二胡、藝術總監﹕黃繼榮
吉他﹕John Oliver
打擊樂﹕Bruce Henczel
主持: 王健教授

傳統的彈撥弦樂和現代舞蹈節奏的鞋底聲將巧妙地融合一體？信不信由你！在5月26日溫哥華中華樂團與中山公園合辦的世界民族音樂系列《踢踏铮铮》音樂會上，聽眾們將體驗到由班卓琴演奏家Nick Hornbuckle的早期藍草音樂、三弦演奏家常青的中國傳統和現代風格表演、Nick Hornbuckle獨特風格的踢踏舞以及另外三位演奏高手有二胡黃繼榮，吉他John Oliver和打擊樂Bruce Henczel的助陣，將匯集成從所未有的嶄新效果。在這次音樂會上，常青將首演一首自編的專為配上踢踏舞的新曲並用站立的方式演奏三弦，藝術總監黃繼榮則新編一首且有江南風味和藍草音樂以及踢踏舞節奏相結合的輕松曲調。節目主持將由著名語言學家王健教授(Dr. Jan Walls)擔任。

溫哥華中華樂團成立於一九八九年，是加拿大第一個由專業中國音樂家組成，以繼承和發揚中國音樂文化為宗旨的音樂團體。樂團的第一次亮相，是在溫哥華奧芬劇場舉行的加拿大總督專場音樂會上演出，隨後在加美各地演出數百場，其精湛技藝和豐富多采的節目深受廣大觀眾評。

An evening of original music at Ironworks Studio featuring

Peggy Lee, cello ▪ Brad Turner, trumpet

Jon Bentley, saxophone ▪ Jeremy Berkman, trombone

Ron Samworth, guitar ▪ Tony Wilson, guitar

André Lachance, bass ▪ Dylan van der Schyff, drums

Friday, June 8, 2012 at 8pm

The Ironworks Studios

235 Alexander Street, Vancouver

$15 (general) / $12 (students & seniors)

Tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com

For reservations & info, call 604.683.8240 or e-mail diane@dkam.ca

The Peggy Lee Band was formed in 1998 as a vehicle for Peggy Lee’s compositions and to improvise within these compositions. The band has released four CDs and toured nationally and internationally to critical acclaim. The band is comprised of local greats whose individual sounds and strengths are critical to the band’s unique sound.

Since moving to Vancouver in 1989, the Toronto born cellist has become a major voice in the creative music community. Current projects besides the Peggy Lee Band include Ron Samworth’s Talking Pictures, The Tony Wilson Sextet, Wayne Horvitz’ Gravitas Quartet, a duo with Robin Holcomb, the string quartet Microcosmos, a new collaboration with Mary Margaret O’Hara called Beautiful Tool, Dave Douglas’ Mountain Passages and the new music ensemble Standing Wave.

This music will be recorded at the Warehouse Studio in June for release on Drip Audio in the fall of 2012.

…fearless and sweet, … adventurous and diverse.   The Georgia Straight

… a strikingly original composer. Wonderfully expressive and individualistic, her pieces defy categorization even as they exploit the free-flowing interplay of her bandmates.   Globe and Mail

Barking Sphinx presents Liquidity this Sunday at the Western Front Luxe theatre! You won’t want to miss new improvised music by Ethos and members of Talking Pictures. Doors open at 6:30pm and donated entrance fee at the door. For more information please contact Diane@dkam.ca or 604 683 8240 or visit www.barkingsphinx.com

7 pm, Sunday, April 29, 2012
Western Front’s Luxe Theatre
303 East 8th Avenue
Doors at 6:30 pm

Ethos Musicians

Samantha Fu, flute
Kathryn Emiko Lee, violin
Stefan Hintersteininger, cello
Chris Morano, piano
Katie Rife, percussion
Timothy Van Cleave, percussion

Talking Pictures Musicians

Ron Samworth, guitar
Dylan van der Schyff, drums

standing wave ensemble

Sunday May 27, 2012, 8pm at The Cultch, 1895 Venables Street

$22.00 general / $17.00 students & seniors

Tickets through The Cultch box office • tickets.thecultch.com • 604.251.1363

Join Standing Wave, Vancouver’s cutting edge chamber ensemble and special guests The Git Hayetsk Dancers for an evening of music borne of myth, legend, and nature featuring the premiere of award-winning Vancouver composer Marcus Goddard’s Raven Tales, inspired by the work of renowned Nisga’a artist Mike Dangeli, and George Crumb’s classic Vox Balaenae, with visual design and masks by Dangeli. Also including works of Steven Mackey, Michael Colgrass and Paul Frehner, along with Olivier Messiaen’s Le Merle Noir, newly arranged by Jennifer Butler.

Standing Wave, in collaboration with Vancouver composer Marcus Goddard and First Nations artist Mike Dangeli, have created an evocative program combining dance, visual installations and new music. In First Nations culture, the raven holds a significant place, described alternately as a powerful creative force, a trickster, or a reflection of oneself. Goddard’s new work, Raven Tales draws on this history, musically exploring how the complexities of the raven’s character are echoed in the human world.

Standing Wave is an ensemble of six exceptional musicians who perform contemporary music with virtuosity and style, cutting across musical landscapes with sharpness, wit and intelligence. The ensemble is equally comfortable performing complex chamber compositions, new music and works with electro-acoustics. Their adventurous programming and dynamic performances combine to capture listeners’ hearts and imaginations, placing Standing Wave at the forefront of Canada’s new music scene.

www.standingwave.ca

 “…fresh sounds that twist and surprise… Standing Wave is a vital contemporary voice with drop-dead ingenious musicians.”

Vancouver Sun

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the British Columbia Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Province of BC through Direct Access to Charitable Gaming, The Hamber Foundation  and the City of Vancouver through the Office of Cultural Affairs.

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Hard Rubber Orchestra Plays Mahavishnu Orchestra

 John Korsrud’s 18-piece jazz powerhouse, plays the music of the famed Mahavishnu Orchestra 

Saturday, April 14, 2012 at 8pm

Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre ● Goldcorp Centre for the Arts

SFU Woodward’s ● 149 W.Hastings Street

Tickets $25 General, $15 Students/Seniors

Buy tickets at  www.brownpapertickets.ca

For more info: www.hardrubber.com or phone 604.683.8240

On April 14, 2012 Hard Rubber Orchestra, John Korsrud’s 18-piece jazz powerhouse, plays the music of the famed Mahavishnu Orchestra.  In the early 70’s, this five-piece unit, lead by guitarist John McLaughlin, blew minds and drew a cult following with their ground-breaking fusion of jazz, Indian ragas and high volume rock n roll. Hard Rubber will perform original arrangements by John Korsrud, Fred Stride, Bill Runge and others, with guests; drummer Randall Stoll, and Chris Gestrin on keyboards, along with the 18-piece orchestra.  Come and see the Mahavishnu Orchestra re-visited and re-imagined by Vancouver’s one and only Hard Rubber Orchestra.

Formed by artistic director John Korsrud twenty years ago, the Hard Rubber Orchestra has consistently been Canada’s most active and unpredictable ensembles of creative music, presenting concerts of original music by some of Canada’s most exciting composers, performed by Vancouver’s finest musicians. They have toured across Canada several times and to Europe, released 2 CDs, and have produced operas, TV specials, ice shows and raves. They are the recipients of the 2005 Alcan Arts Award, the largest arts award for creation in Canada.

Described by the Georgia Straight as the “Godzilla of the Vancouver jazz scene, a big, goofy monster that stomps through complex charts with the swagger of big swing band and the heat of a thermonuclear explosion,” The Hard Rubber Orchestra has commissioned many of the finest composers from Vancouver and across Canada, including Scott Good, Linda Bouchard, Ian McDougall, Brad Turner, Phil Dwyer, Michael Blake, Fred Stride, Hugh Fraser, Peter Hannan, Howard Bashaw and Montreal’s Jean Derome and René Lussier.

The performance was one of the most exhilarating I’ve been to in ages. I’ve rarely encountered such a magical combination of terrific musicians exploring well-crafted new repertoire with wit and intelligence. The sheer energy and commitment that went into the event was staggering . . . it was one of the most impressive musical events I’ve experienced in Vancouver in several years.”

Denise Ball, Producer, CBC Radio

Kozmik Zoo, 53 W.Broadway, 8:30pm Thursday March 29, 2012

ONE DAY WORKSHOP: Sunday, March 25, 2012 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Learn about taiko history, notation, and basic rhythms at this one-day, hands-on workshop. At the end of the workshop, participants will have learned a taiko piece. No previous experience is necessary.

Venue: Taiko Space, 1254 Frances Street, Vancouver (just west of Clark Drive)

Fee: $75 general or $50 for students/ seniors/ unemployed. Participants must be a minimum of 16 years of age.

Please wear loose, comfortable clothing, and bring a lunch. Bring soft-soled indoor athletic footwear, or be prepared to go barefoot – street shoes cannot be worn inside the taiko space. Water and juice will be provided.

Please call 604-683-8240 OR visit www.kataritaiko.bc.ca for information on how to register.

A Day’s Life Productions presents:

Tony Wilson’s A Day’s Life Band

Tony Wilson, guitar ▪ JP Carter, trumpet
Jesse Zubot, violin ▪ Peggy Lee, cello
Russell Sholberg, bass ▪ Skye Brooks, drums
Friday, February 17, 2012 at 8pm
The Ironworks Studios
235 Alexander Street, Vancouver
$15 (general) / $10 (students & seniors)
For reservations & info, call 604.683.8240 or e-mail diane@dkam.ca

Tony Wilson, hailed as “unquestionably one of the most original guitar stylists on the Canadian scene”, presents music inspired by the plight and lives of the homeless and drug addiction in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. His novella, A Day’s Life, is a fictional account of a day in the life of a crack-addicted musician who lives and busks on the streets of the DTES. A limited number of advanced copies will be released at the concert. The evening will feature Wilson’s music performed by A Day’s Life Band consisting of some of the finest musicians and improvisers in Canada – JP Carter on trumpet, Jesse Zubot on violin, Peggy Lee on cello, Russell Sholberg on bass and Skye Brooks on drums. Wilson has toured across Canada and internationally with his own groups as well with other renowned artists such as cellist Lee, clarinetist François Houle and singer Elizabeth Fischer. He studied with many acclaimed jazz musicians including Oliver Gannon, Dave Holland, John Abercrombie, Kevin Eubanks and Steve Coleman. He won a West Coast Music Award with his band Video Barbeque and released the critically acclaimed ‘Lowest Note’ in 2001, which went on to become a pick of the year in the Globe and Mail. Wilson’s compositions have been played by artists as diverse as the NOW Orchestra, the Hard Rubber Orchestra, Myra Melford, Kokoro Dance, Marilyn Crispell and Zubot & Dawson. He has shared the stage with well known international artists such as Vinny Golia, William Parker, Wilbert de Joode, Gerry Hemingway, Han Bennink, Marilyn Lerner, Toby Delius, Benoit Delbecq & Eric Boeren in the US and Europe.

…utterly abandoned and impossibly tight. Wilson is an unusually direct and emotional player.
…the music, though fierce, was also suffused by feelings of joy and love; the respect that these players have for
each other is obvious. The Georgia Straight
…a talismanic West Coast figure. Downbeat Magazine

http://www.tony-wilson.ca/

Related show

• Artist: Tony Wilson
• Date: Thursday, February 17th 2011
• Time: 8:00pm
• City: Tony Wilson in Vancouver
• Venue: Iron Works
• Address: 235 Alexander Street
• Country: Canada
• Admission: $15 general / $10 students & sen
• Age restrictions: No Minors
• Box office: 604.683.8240
• Notes: For reservations & info call 604.683.8240 Tickets available at the door
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Sunday, October 23, 8pm
Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street (at Granville)
$20.00 general / $15.00 students & seniors
Tickets: www.ticketstonight.ca or by phone 604.684.2787 or at the door
For more info: www.standingwave.ca, www.barkingsphinx.com or phone 604.683.8240

Christie Reside, flute ♦ A-K Coope, clarinet ♦ Rebecca Whitling, violin
Peggy Lee, cello ♦ Allen Stiles, piano ♦ Vern Griffiths, percussion
Ron Samworth, guitar ♦ Dylan van der Schyff, drums
Special Guests: Reg Quiring, viola and John Korsrud, trumpet

On Sunday, October 23, Standing Wave, Vancouver’s leading contemporary chamber ensemble, and Talking Pictures, Vancouver’s cutting edge improvising ensemble, join forces for an evening of extreme music creation. The program will feature Iannis Xenakis’ classic chamber works Ikhoor, Oophaa, and Plekto, bookended by improvisatory explorations as well as premieres of new works by John Korsrud and Peggy Lee for the combined Talking Pictures and Standing Wave ensemble.

Ten years have passed since the death of Iannis Xenakis, (1922-2001) the Romanian-born, Greek composer who was arguably the most influential iconoclast of 20th Century Western music. During his lifetime Xenakis was an architect, a mathematician, a scholar of philosophy, Greek Classicism, atomic physics, and computer science, and a political exile, all of which informed his work as a composer.

Xenakinesis! is Standing Wave’s tribute to this musical revolutionary. Three works of Xenakis on the program, the unremittingly intense Ikhoor (1978), the gamelan-inspired Oophaa, and Plekto (1993), with its gestures jabbing out from a dense core of sound, exemplify what the Czech writer Milan Kundera wrote about Xenakis’ music in his 1981 essay “The Prophet of Insensibility”: “…a mass of sound which does not rise from the human heart, but which approaches us from the outside, like raindrops or the voice of wind.”

Taking Xenakis’ music and ideas as a point of departure, internationally acclaimed Vancouverites John Korsrud and Peggy Lee will compose works for the combined forces of Standing Wave and Talking Pictures which we will premiere on this concert. Improvised creations of members of both ensembles will round out the concert.

“Once again, Standing Wave presented a varied and stimulating program,
played as ever, with lashings of intelligence and heart.” – The Georgia Straight

ard Rubber New Music, SFU Woodwards Goldcorp Centre for the Arts and Coastal Jazz present