Music

Vancouver’s Scatterheart is taking its next big step. After successful headline shows last year at Richards on Richards and Venue, the group takes on the larger and more prestigious Commodore Ballroom on March 27th. We caught up with lead singer Jesse Enright as he finished teaching a yoga class (you certainly can’t get much more West Coast than that) to talk about the band, its influences, feathers and their desire to maintain the mystery behind their sexuality.

From the producers of Vancouver's Next Gay Top Model comes a new competition: the search for Vancouver's first Hot Gay DJ.

With a show scheduled at the Commodore on March 27th and an appearance at the Davie Street Party during Pride 2010, Scatterheart claims they have started a revolution to help make Rock 'n Roll fun again.

Dragonette, that electronic-rock band who write pop songs, returns to Vancouver with a single show at the Commodore Ballroom on March 17th.  True to form, the band tells us, in their own unique way, how they got to where they are today.

After nearly two decade since launching their career with their independently released debut album, Strange Fire, and entertaining millions of fans with 10 major-label studio albums, Grammy-winning duo, the Indigo Girls are back with a new album and performance at the Commodore Ballroom.

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is set to perform Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 as its showcase event of the 2010 Cultural Olympiad featuring over 400 performers including eight vocal soloists, the Vancouver Bach Choir, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and the Vancouver Children's Choir.

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 was his final complete symphony, and arguably the greatest piece of music ever written. The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra presents this epic piece along with Beethoven’s Ah, Perfido! and Fidelio: Overture on January 2nd and 4th at 8pm at the Orpheum Theatre. Maestro Bramwell Tovey conducts a concert that features soprano Joni Henson, mezzo-soprano Norine Burgess, tenor Michael Colvin, baritone Greg Dahl and the Vancouver Bach Choir.

As one of the holiday season's timeless classics, Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons will get a new interpretation this year as violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch will lead the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) in the piece, as well as chamber works by Purcell and Handel. The concerts take place on December 18th and 19th at the Chan Centre for Performing Arts and Massey Theatre in New Westminster on December 21st.

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra returns with one of its perennial favourites, A Traditional Christmas, starting December 10th.  As with previous years, the concert will feature carols, sing-a-longs, and selections from Handel’s Messiah, Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker, and other holiday favourites.

It has been said that music makes the movie and to help prove this to be true the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra will present music from classic movies in its next VSO Pops show November 27th and 28th.