The Pender Harbour Music Society presents its Mid-Winter Chamber Music Weekend with two afternoon concerts, Saturday, Feb. 22 and Sunday the 23rd at the School of Music in Madeira Park. Performances are at 2 p.m. each day. The featured ensemble is Sea and Sky, with violinist Joan Blackman, François Houle on clarinet, and pianist Jane Hayes. The programs will include works by Mozart, Bartok, Khachaturian, and Brahms. Tickets are $25, available at Strait Music, Harbour Insurance or online at penderharbourmusic.ca
Feast for the ears
MOTET Chamber Choir will perform a concert for the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Gibsons on Saturday, Feb. 22 at 2:30 p.m. The concert features music drawn from the First Vespers and Mass liturgies of the feast, including works by William Byrd, Maurice Duruflé, and more. Admission is by donation.
Comedy show
Comedian Tim Nutt headlines a show also featuring fellow funnyman Jon Gagnon and hosted by Coast comic Toby Hargrave for an evening of stand-up comedy on Saturday, Feb. 22 at the Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons. Part proceeds will help support the Bellies and Babies program at Sunshine Coast Community Services. Tickets are $25 from Gibsons Florist, The Fish Market in Sechelt, and online at www.share-there.com. Adult humour: the show is for those 18+.
Young and older
Dance Works Academy presents its winter show, For the Love of Dance, in two shows this weekend, featuring the Spectrum Youth Company Dancers, plus the Junior and Senior Competition Teams. At the Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons, Friday, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 22 at 1 p.m. Adults $20, kids $10, at the door or in advance from the Dance Works website.
Lots more music
• The Burying Ground and Deanna Knight play The Kube in Gibsons, Friday, Feb. 21 at 8 p.m. Deanna opens with a short set of original tunes, followed by the band, with its “rustic old-timey country-blues, and swinging, jazz-flecked folk music,” $20.
• There’s good music to eat well by at the Roberts Creek Legion’s Wilde Kitchen, with veteran local folkie Grant Olsen on Friday, Feb. 21 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
• Later on Friday at the Creek Legion, starting at 9 p.m., Killing Floor Blues Band brings its homage to Chicago electric blues of the ‘50s and ‘60s. Killing Floor also plays the Gibsons Legion on Saturday, Feb. 22.
• The mother-son duo of Anna Lumiere and Noah Ord play a French-Canadiana soirée of fiddle-and-bellows traditionals and originals at the Gumboot Café on Friday, Feb. 21 at 7:30 p.m.
• Jim Foster performs at the Backeddy Resort and Marina in Egmont on Saturday, Feb. 22 at 7 p.m.
• And on Feb. 23, the Steve Hinton Band hosts the Sunday Jam at The Clubhouse restaurant at the Pender Harbour Golf Course, 2 to 6 p.m. Admission by donation.
Food for thought
One year after the publication of her latest book, The Co-op Revolution: Vancouver’s Search for Food Alternatives, Sunshine Coast author and editor Jan DeGrass is still being invited to do readings and speak to audiences about the Vancouver food co-op scene in the 1970s and food today in general. The next is a free event at Banyen Books in Vancouver on Wednesday, Feb. 26 at 6:30 p.m. DeGrass will share the spotlight that evening with Jon Steinman, the author of Grocery Story: The Promise of Food Co-ops in the Age of Grocery Giants.
Heads up
• The Artesia Café at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt is back on Friday, Feb. 28 with a lineup that includes guitarist Bradley Wells, the family folk trio Bits of String, and poet Kaia Nielsen. Closing out the evening with a bang will be local fan favourites Sh-Boom and their ‘50s, ‘60s and beyond four-part pop harmonies, backed by Sascha Fassaert on guitar and Barry Taylor on drums. $15 at the door with a 7:30 p.m. start.
• Victoria-based live electronic music band Astrocolor brings its show to the Sunshine Coast for the first time on Saturday, Feb. 29 at Roberts Creek Hall. Tickets are $25 at The Kube, MELOmania, Strait Music and www.share-there.com.
Submissions
If there’s an event you’d like considered for Art Beat, please let us know by 11 a.m. Tuesday at arts@coastreporter.net. Space is limited and, regrettably, we can’t list everything. Also check Coast Reporter’s Coast Community Calendar for more music and events.
