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Friday, October 14, 2022 / 7:30 pm
Door 6:00 pm for dinner service
Upstairs Lounge, Oak Bay Recreation Centre, 1975 Bee Street, Victoria, BC V8R 5E6airs
“Jeff Plankenhorn has become an Austin institution, sought after by many artists to lend his musical talents to their albums and performances. Calling him a guitarist doesn’t do him justice, though. Sure, he’s designed his very own guitar – a custom lap steel guitar called, perhaps not surprisingly, “The Plank”. And you can give him […]
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Saturday, October 15, 2022 / 7:30 pm
Door 7:00 pm
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, corner of Broughton & douglas Street, Victoria, BC V8W 1C1
“Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, something roars in and it turns you about.” Connie Kaldor writes this and more about the unexpected twists and turns of life and love. She could well be writing about her personal artistic complexities. Music pundits have tried to define the essence of the prairie-born acoustic […]
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Saturday, October 29, 2022 / 7:30 pm
Door 6:00 pm for dinner service
Upstairs Lounge, Oak Bay Recreation Centre, 1975 Bee Street, Victoria, BC V8R 5E6
Big Hank & The Kingpins are a hard-hitting fun-loving band of veteran musicians who play classic Swing an R&B from the ‘50s and ‘60s (plus a few original songs penned within the idiom). Fronted by the lion-voiced Hank Lionhart and powered by a dynamic horn and rhythm section, these guys are guaranteed to bounce the […]
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Friday, November 4, 2022 / 7:30 pm
Door 7:00 pm
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, corner of Broughton & Douglas Street, Victoria, BC V8W 1C1
True power inspires awe, and Irish Mythen packs a lot of it – lyrical, musical, and personal – into a relatively small frame. Mythen is a globetrotting troubadour – an Irish-born, contemporary Canadian folk artist who’s been amassing accolades and achievements across several continents over the years. Her presence and charisma simply command attention, and […]
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Friday, November 18, 2022 / 7:30 pm
Door 6:00 pm for dinner service
Upstairs Lounge, Oak Bay Recreation Centre, 1975 Bee Street, Victoria, BC V8R 5E6
“Three powerful musicians playing and singing some powerful music – Bluegrass Unlimited The Lonesome Ace Stringband is an old-time band with bluegrass chops that play some righteous folk and country music. There’s a depth of groove and sense of space not often heard in bluegrass today, a level of instrumental interplay and vocal blend uncommon in old-time, and […]
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Saturday, November 19, 2022 / 7:30 pm
Door 6:00 pm for dinner service
Upstairs Lounge, Oak Bay Recreation Centre, 1975 Bee Street, Victoria, BC V8R 5E6
The Fabulous B-Sides are Musical Shape Shifters! The musicians in The Fabulous B-Sides can take any song and make it a hit on the dance floor! If you want a band that tears up the stage with klieg-light exuberance and some serious chops then you’ll love the Fabulous B-Sides. We work hard to engage audiences […]
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Friday, November 25, 2022 / 7:30 pm
Door 6:00 pm for dinner service
Upstairs Lounge, Oak Bay Recreation Centre, 1975 Bee Street, Victoria, BC V8R 5E6
For those who don’t know of Madison Violet, it all began in 1999. Brenley MacEachern and Lisa MacIsaac (yes, Ashley’s sister) met over weak coffee and broccoli omelettes, in a restaurant called The Green Room, in Toronto. It was a chance meeting, 1900 kms away from the small Cape Breton town where both Lisa and Brenley’s […]
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Saturday, January 7, 2023 / 7:30 pm
Door 6:00 pm for dinner service
Upstairs Lounge, Oak Bay Recreation Centre, 1975 Bee Street, Victoria, BC V8R 5E6airs
The musical partnership between consummate performer Alasdair Fraser, “the Michael Jordan of Scottish fiddling”, and brilliant Californian cellist Natalie Haas spans the full spectrum between intimate chamber music and ecstatic dance energy. Over the last 20 years of creating a buzz at festivals and concert halls across the world, they have truly set the standard […]
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Friday, January 20, 2023 / 7:30 pm
Door 6:00 pm for dinner service
Upstairs Lounge, Oak Bay Recreation Centre, 1975 Bee Street, Victoria, BC V8R 5E6
A Saskatoon native transplanted to the Niagara Region of Ontario, Canada, Suzie Vinnick is the proud owner of a gorgeous voice, impressive guitar and bass chops and an engagingly candid performance style. Suzie has won 10 Maple Blues Awards, 1 Canadian Folk Music Award and is a 3X Juno Nominee. She has also twice won […]
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Saturday, January 21, 2023 / 7:30 pm
Door 6:00 pm for dinner service
Upstairs Lounge, Oak Bay Recreation Centre, 1975 Bee Street, Victoria, BC V8R 5E6
Beppe Gambetta is a guitarist, vocalist, researcher and composer from Genova, Italy, who has developed a personal style that brings American and European Roots together with one voice. In his unique approach, Gambetta blends energetic grooves with passionate melodies, giving new life to sources from different times, periods and places. In addition, the original music […]
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Friday, January 27, 2023 / 7:30 pm
Door 6:00 pm for dinner service
upstairs Lounge, Oak Bay Recreation Centre, 1975 Bee Street, Victoria, BC V8R 5E6
Sisters Cassie and Maggie MacDonald bring their traditional Nova Scotia Celtic roots back to the Island! Cassie & Maggie have found the perfect balance between musical integrity, and sheer entertainment. While still staying true to their Celtic roots, they have explored and tested the boundaries of traditional music, bringing a breath of fresh air to […]
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Friday, February 3, 2023 / 7:30 pm
Door 6:00 pm for dinner service
Upstairs Lounge, Oak Bay Recreation Centre, 1975 Bee Street, Victoria, BC
Who better to play the music of Fats Domino and Little Richard than David Vest and his band? They don’t make them as real as David Vest anymore. Long revered as one of the great boogie-woogie piano players, he’s the son of an Alabama sharecropper. He grew up in genuine juke joints and has amazing […]
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Friday, February 24, 2023 / 7:30 pm
Door Doors 6:45 pm
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Corner of Broughton & Douglas St., Victoria, BC V8W 1C1
Punching through the walls of tradition, The McDades’ Celtic-rooted music fuses the spontaneity of jazz improvisation and infectious global rhythms. The Juno Award winners’ cutting edge sound is the perfect complement to their fiery performances. At the heart of the group are siblings Shannon, Solon & Jeremiah who grew up playing Canadian folk music alongside […]
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Friday, March 3, 2023 / 7:30 pm
Door 6:00 pm for dinner service
Upstairs Lounge, Oak Bay Recreation Centre, 1975 Bee Street, Victoria, BC V8R 5E6
Rosier is an outstanding bilingual group from Quebec that forges a unique blend of folk traditions and indie pop textures. Rosier takes an audacious approach to their award winning music, blending traditional songs with well-crafted indie pop sensibilities. Bilingual, feminist and feminine to the four fifths, the band maneuvers effortlessly between French and English, between […]
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Friday, March 10, 2023 / 7:30 pm
Door 6:00 pm for dinner service
upstairs Lounge, Oak Bay Recreation Centre, 1975 Bee Street, Victoria, BC V8R 5E6
Danny O’Keefe is an American songwriter and recording artist whose career spans over 50 years. In 1968, O’Keefe was a member of a four-man heavy psychedelic rock band named Calliope. O’Keefe is best known for the hit single, “Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues”, which was released in September 1972, and reached number 9 on […]
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Friday, March 24, 2023 / 7:30 pm
Door 6:45 pm
First Church of Christ, Scientist, 1205 Pandora Ave, Victoria, BC V8V 3R3
Two of Canada’s greatest roots singer-songwriters have finally done what everybody’s wanted — heck, what they’ve wanted — for years. Dave Gunning and J.P. Cormier are releasing their first album together, called Two. Great friends, frequent collaborators, co-writers and touring partners, the pair has been talking about this album since pretty much the day they […]
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Saturday, March 25, 2023 / 7:30 pm
Door 6:45 pm
First Church of Christ, Scientist, 1205 Pandora Ave, Victoria, BC V8V 3R3
“He has the depth and maturity to match his unending virtuosity on the guitar” –John Jorgenson, Grammy Award Winning bluegrass guitarist/mandolinist Although best known as an acoustic guitar virtuoso with a focus on Celtic and gypsy jazz, Quinn Bachand is a multi-instrumentalist and innovator whose diverse musical talents also include bluegrass, western swing, and various […]
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