Our Recommendations
Indulge your appetite for arts and culture.
With so many exciting arts and culture events happening you can feel overwhelmed. The Music on Main Team is here to help! We’ve carefully chosen a list of wonderful digital and live events to discover and experience. Whether you’re looking for a theatrical diversion or a blockbuster art show, some new dance or a classical concerto, our recommendations is a list of must-see events whenever you’re looking for a hit of culture. Make sure to check back often, as we are always scouting fun events that we think you’ll love!
Our Recommendations are must-see events, some from our Vancouver home base and a few from across the globe that we think you’ll enjoy. We’re your trusted source that you’ll want to come back to every time you’re looking for something new and exciting to discover. If you’re looking for only Music on Main events check here.
ANNIE
Join Gateway Theatre this holiday season for Annie, a family-friendly musical for all ages! Don’t miss little orphan Annie this winter for adventure after fun-filled adventure in NYC! On a journey to find her parents, she encounters billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary Grace Farrell, and a lovable mutt named Sandy, played onstage by real dogs! This heartwarming show is filled with familiar favourite songs like “It’s the Hard Knock Life” and ”Tomorrow” that will have you singing all the way home.
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Artifacts l: Zero Input Enclosure Movement
Zero Input Enclosure Movement (ZIEM) is an 8-channel sculptural sound installation created by Winnipeg-based artist AO Roberts that invites audiences to shift their sonic attention within a timed, spatially responsive environment structured through layered interactions of performance and audience engagement. Using a zero-input mixing technique (where a sound system’s output is fed back into its input), ZIEM produces oscillating drones that echo the immersive tones of a sound bath yet drift into the spectral persistence of MRIs, HVAC systems, and power transformers.
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James Ehnes Plays Beethoven
Celebrate the 50th birthday of internationally renowned violinist and friend to the VSO, James Ehnes, as he presents Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. Maestro Tausk and the VSO also welcome Krisztina Szabó to perform Jeffrey Ryan’s Miss Carr in Seven Scenes, a series of songs celebrating the iconic British Columbian painter. Dive into Swim, an invigorating work by Cassandra Miller whose compositions have been described by The New Yorker as “engulfing… music that reminds us how to cry.”
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Left of PuSh RELAY
On January 28 and 31st Plastic Orchid Factory partners up with Mile Zero Dance, Studio303, and the CanDance Network to facilitate RELAY, a tri-city handoff where three mid-career artists will carry their works from Montreal, to Vancouver and then Edmonton; Moving from seedling ideas, to full production — developing, and refining their propositions at each stop.
Features Camille Huang’s “Puncture and Pull”, interdisciplinary performance “Do You Love Me?” by Kait Ramsden and “fort.” by Stephanie Cumming & Chris Bullough.
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Ravel’s Boléro
Feel the beat with an evening of pulsing music led by Conductor Naomi Woo. Haydn’s “Drumroll” Symphony kicks things off on a thrilling note, alongside Ravel’s iconic Boléro with driving snare drum and one of the most unforgettable climaxes in classical music. Performed at the BBC Proms in 2022 by percussionist Colin Currie, Nicole Lizée’s concerto for percussion and orchestra, Blurr is the Colour of My True Love’s Eyes, is a tour-de-force inspired by techniques found in stop-motion film and photography.
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INFINITY
The season continues with INFINITY, featuring two of the world’s foremost and truly masterful choreographic voices. Crystal Pite’s Frontier is back following its unforgettable 2024 Ballet BC debut, and the work of Jiří Kylián makes a triumphant return to our stage with the visionary 27’52”.
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