Archive for the ‘concerts’ Category
September 11th, 2008 by
Miss604
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Yesterday afternoon and evening I had the chance to meet Zac, Isaac, and Taylor Hanson. Three brothers, singers, songwriters, record company owners, and musicians from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Thanks to Keira, I took the initiative to set up an interview with them for my weekly E! Online post (Hanson interview to be published next week). She [...]
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Posted in concerts, interview, music, vancouver
August 21st, 2008 by
Miss604
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Tanya, Me, Jenny
Last month I published a personal post about the loss of my friend Tanya’s brother.
As he left behind two young sons there have been ongoing fundraising efforts to help cover the cost of his funeral and everyday expenses the family has incurred. Also, since his celebration of life ceremony was held in [...]
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Tags: benefit
Posted in concerts, music, surrey
July 23rd, 2008 by
DaveO
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The following is a guest post by DaveO - you can catch a multitude of links to hise various projects on his website and more video on his Blip channel.
All my hipster/greenie/crunchy/urbane pals were all bound for the luminary, venerable Vancouver Folk Fest this past weekend. I turned down extra tickets, rumoured media passes, friendly [...]
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Tags: festival, surrey, whalley
Posted in cheap fun, cheap things to do, community, concerts, guest post, music, surrey
July 20th, 2008 by
Miss604
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We’ll be heading out to Surrey again for some of this evening’s performances at Fusion Festival which will run from 11:00am until 8:00pm in Holland Park.
All photos by John Bollwitt, check out his entire Fusion Festival collection on Flickr
Leave the car at home as this is easily accessible from Surrey Central or King George Skytrain [...]
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July 19th, 2008 by
Miss604
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Last night the Fusion Festival kicked off in Surrey’s Holland Park with dusk performances and all anticipating this morning’s events, concerts, food, crafts and activities. Day two of the Fusion Festival will be going strong until 10:00pm tonight.
All photos by John Bollwitt, check out his entire Fusion Festival collection on Flickr
Tomorrow things will pick [...]
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July 14th, 2008 by
Miss604
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This weekend I’ll be out in Surrey for Fusion Festival but for those who cannot make the Skytrain out to Surrey Central for this (free) three day event filled with dancing, food and concert performances in the park, there’s another event happening down at Jericho Beach Park.
Celebrating three days of world music. Vancouver Folk Music [...]
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Tags: concerts, festival, music
Posted in community, concerts, music, music news, surrey, vancouver
June 26th, 2008 by
Miss604
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Tonight there is a pre-show meetup at the Kingston (everyone is invited) then it’s off to the Orpheum to see Matthew Good play a hometown gig. He’s never played the Orpheum before so he said it will be a pretty special event. Although I have written about the venue before, I haven’t been there since [...]
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June 24th, 2008 by
Miss604
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Traditionally attending an outdoor concert in Vancouver means packing a garbage bag just in case you need to turn in into an emergency rain poncho. Hopefully this summer will be a bright one as there are so many outdoor events lined up, I’m not even sure I’ll get them all in this post but I’ll [...]
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Posted in community, concerts, jazzfestival, music, north vancouver, richmond, surrey, vancouver
June 19th, 2008 by
Miss604
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Last summer I had the pleasure of meeting Jennie Roth in Vegas when we both attended Matt’s private birthday show.
A Pittsburgh girl who has become involved in the local social media scene, Jennie is helping to organize PodCamp Pittsburgh this fall. Over the last year she’s made her way to Vancouver for visits and [...]
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June 18th, 2008 by
Miss604
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A quick update to a previous post about the Dandy Warhols show tonight as it will now be taking place at Richards on Richards (and not The Vogue). Doors @ 8:00pm.
John and I will be attending later this evening and we hope to have a recap with some photos to add to this post as [...]
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