Music

From The Beatles to The Beastie Boys, from Alan Parsons to Pink Floyd, from Rachmaninoff to Radiohead, Vancouver's Roundhouse Productions is celebrating 30 years of indie laser and light show production at the H. R. Macmillan Planetarium with the launch of Laser Radiohead.

One of the most iconic and influential pop acts in the world, Pet Shop Boys will play The Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts on September 19th, 2009 promoting their latest album "Yes".

Israel-bred, LA-based psy-trance duo Infected Mushroom - Amit "Duvdev" Duvedevani and Erez Eisen - is set to play the Commodore Ballroom on July 4th as part of their 2009 tour.

The City of Burnaby has teamed up with Live Nation in presenting the 10th Annual Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival at Deer Lake Park on August 9th featuring the legendary Smokey Robinson.

Following the success of his hugely popular and critically acclaimed solo-acoustic tour, Bryan Adams is returning to small venues across the country with a string of intimate performances including a return to Vancouver at the Orpheum Theatre on October 1st and 2nd.

The VSO's Season Finale is a real barn-burner: Carl Orff's extraordinary masterpiece Carmina Burana is a musical setting of medieval poetry, from the sacred to the profane, from devotional love and piety to drinking songs and debauchery! It also happens to be one of the wildest live concert experiences you can possibly have.

Recognized as one of the most beloved musical figures of our time, the great mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade (affectionately known as ‘Flicka' worldwide to her friends, family and legions of fans) makes her VSO debut teamed up with Samuel Ramey, the world's foremost operatic bass-baritone.

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) annpunced its 2009/2010 season featureing a line-up of guest artists, mixing the next generation of stars with long-established superstars and local favourites.

This Saturday May 23, Celebrities Nightclub will release its first CD compilation, titled "RELEASE". Mixed by resident DJs "The Threesome" (Ryan Bazeley, Dan James and Zach Shore) the CD was inspired by Saturday nights at Celebrities and features some of the hottest tracks to have rocked the dancefloor since the re-launch of Celebrities gay Saturday nights last fall.

Pianist Benjamin Hochman plays Mozart's rarely heard Piano Concerto No.9 in his VSO debut. This is followed up by the huge, exciting, passionate music of Russian master Sergei Prokofiev. Conductor Laureate Kazuyoshi Akiyama returns to conduct the final PricewaterhouseCoopers Masterworks Silver concerts of the season, which take place on Saturday, May 30th and Monday, June 1st at 8pm at the Orpheum Theatre.