Music
Leanne Allen interviews The Grapes of...
The Grapes of Wrath have reunited and are playing at Upstairs Cabaret in Victoria – what used to be Harpo’s – for one of a series of Autism benefit concerts. Leanne Allen asks them what it’s like to be back together after 20 years. Read More »
Johnny Reid performs at SOFA –...
PHOTOS (by Jeff McAllister) – click any image below to view a larger version, then click NEXT or hit “n” to cycle through them… How do you break the hearts of roughly 3,500 women aged six to 60? Sincerity and a Scottish accent certainly help. Baby-faced neo-country crooner Johnny Reid did exactly that at the Save-On Foods Memorial Arena... Read More »
Calgary’s Michael Bernard...
Calgary’s Michael Bernard Fitzgerald Livens Up Lucky Bar PHOTOS – click any image above to view a larger version, then click NEXT or hit “n” to cycle through them… When I heard that Michael Bernard Fitzgerald, a singer/songwriter with a lot of soul and style, was coming to town, I immediately signed up to review the show. Based on... Read More »
Deep Purple – Jeff McAllister
Deep Purple – Jeff McAllister PHOTOS (by Jeff McAllister) – click any image above to view a larger version, then click NEXT or hit “n” to cycle through them… One of the biggest ironies of the aging rockstar is that sooner or later your audience turns against you. “I prefer to remember icons the way they were,” my... Read More »
Singer/songwriter Anne Schaefer gives...
Singer/songwriter Anne Schaefer gives CVV Magazine’s John Threlfall a preview of her new CD – The Waiting Room. Read More »
Carmen – Nice Girl, Till You Get...
Carmen – Pacific Opera Victoria. Music by Georges Bizet. Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy It’s been a while since I’ve done a written review. CVV has such a great team of reviewers now that for the most part I just leave things in their capable hands and concentrate on other multimedia content for the site. But when... Read More »
Hedley – Against All Odds ...
Hedley – Against All Odds PHOTOS (by Jeff McAllister) – click any image above to view a larger version, then click NEXT or hit “n” to cycle through them… Despite 15 years of devout music fandom, I’ve harbored quite a lot of apathy for bands like Hedley. Most of us over 16 feel the same way about Vancouver’s Pop-punk... Read More »
Prince – Amanda Farrell-Low
Let me start off by saying I’m not a huge Prince fan. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I dislike his music, it’s just that I never really got into him. As an ’80s baby, I was just a little too young for the 1999 and Purple Rain era, and it wasn’t the kind of music my parents... Read More »
