Vocal Intent, a six-member a cappella group, gives an encore concert this Sunday, June 21. If you missed their performance in March of A’Round the Table, this is your chance to see it again. The show starts at 7 p.m. at the Arts Centre in Sechelt. Admission is by donation. Find more information at VocalIntent.ca
This weekend
Coast Confidential: Flashbacks in Story and Song performs tonight, June 19 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, June 20 at 2 p.m. Arbutus Sounds Chorus invites you to join them for an hour-long journey, as they explore Sunshine Coast highlights from the last century through stories and songs. Admission is by donation. Show is at the Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden, 5941 Mason Rd. in West Sechelt. Phone 604-886-4722.
The following day, Sunday, June 21, The Sojourners Gospel Trio give a benefit concert for Habitat for Humanity at 2 p.m. also at the Botanical Gardens. Phone 604-885-1945 for details. Tickets are at Laedeli in Gibsons and EarthFair Store in Madeira Park.
Music at the Legion
On Saturday, June 20, Dave’s Not Here! performs live at the Gibsons Legion, 747 Gibsons Way. Come on out for all your favourite hits of rock, rhythm and blues. Members are $5, guests $10.
Fun choir
The Suncoast Phoenix Choir gave a purely fun and entertaining concert in Gibsons last weekend. With the theme of Canadian music, the 50-member strong choir sang through the Scots and Irish pioneer songs and the uniquely Canadian folk tunes such as Grand Hotel. “There’s a place in Vancouver the loggers know well…” The several Stan Rogers tunes were a delight.
Six of the choir broke ranks to recite the famous Robert Service classic poem, The Cremation of Sam McGee, and there were several solos with Rod Olafson on clarinet and Phyllis Dyson on flute. Choir leader and conductor Sara Douglas was a bundle of barefoot energy and encouraged the audience to sing along on such rousing folk songs as I’se the B’y and Alouette.
Culture ambassador
BC Culture Days has announced the winners of the Ambassador and Awards program and local artist Miyuki Shinkai of Gibsons has been selected to organize a family art workshop. Each ambassador was awarded $1,000 towards the production of their own Culture Days event and will act as spokesperson for Culture Days. They will engage the public to discover the behind-the-scenes world of artists, creators, historians, architects, curators, and designers at work in their community during the Culture Days weekend, Sept. 25, 26, 27. Culture Days is a collaborative movement to encourage awareness, participation, and engagement of all Canadians in the arts and cultural life of their communities.
Keep me posted
Send your notice of arts events by Tuesday at 5 p.m. for Friday’s newspaper to [email protected] or phone 604-886-4692. Art Beat covers events one day to one week ahead.
