Music

The Orpheum returns to its cinematic roots with a screening of the classic film The Wizard of Oz with music performed live by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

Spring is just around the corner, and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s season is officially past its halfway mark. But many of the season’s highlights are still to come including some Wicked Divas, a trip down the Yellow Brick Road and Maestro Bramwell Tovey’s The Inventory, an opera based on the life of brewmaster Alexander Keith.

Allies of the LGBTQ community can come from the most surprising of places. Locally, one of the newest is the indie band Blanket Barricade and its singer/songwriter Wesley Krauss whose song “A Velvet Affair” was inspired by the documentary film "Beyond Gay (The Politics of Pride)".

For a lot of people the holiday season is all about giving back to the community just like Vancouver singer Tyrell Witherspoon.  With the release of his new single "Glow", Witherspoon is donating a portion of each sale in December to the Dr Peter AIDS Foundation.

The world’s first LGBTQ music video awards competition is in full swing and while professional industry judges are viewing the videos for a variety of awards, fans will also have their say in the Fan Fave Award.

Local gay writer and performer Tyrell Witherspoon is showing no signs of slowing down anytime soon.

From slick, professionally produced videos to home-movie style jams shot in apartments to live footage from concerts and clubs, queer artists from across the globe are throwing their musical hats in the ring for the 2011 RightOutTV Music Video Awards.

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s 2011/2012 season begins Saturday with one of Vancouver’s most famous musical exports, Jon Kimura Parker, as he returns to play one of the most popular (and difficult) piano concertos ever written, Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3.

What better way to celebrate summer than a special Vancouver Symphony Orchestra pops concert featuring music from Hollywood and Broadway.

A lot has happened since we last talked with singer/songwriter/pianist Jeffery Straker, not the least of which is the release of his new album "Under the Soles of My Shoes" which drops June 21 and a return to Vancouver for Pride this July.