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.
On Native Land
On Native Land is a sweeping love story from Corey Payette, the creator of Starwalker, Les Filles Du Roi, and Children of God.
This new musical, produced by Raven Theatre in collaboration with Urban Ink (Vancouver), intertwines the lives of three seemingly disparate characters — a lawyer, a Chief, and a rising singer-songwriter — whose paths converge in a powerful tale of identity, land, and love.
“Payette has proven himself one of the most exciting talents in Canadian theatre, providing a First Nations perspective in his stirring musicals” — Jerry Wasserman, Vancouver Sun
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End of Greatness
End of Greatness is a new multidisciplinary performance by friends and longtime collaborators Veda Hille and Maiko Yamamoto. Through songs and stories about moss, mushrooms, sisterhood, parenthood and a few big cosmological ideas, the audience gets swept up on a wild hunt — from the forest floor to the edges of the known universe.
What are the systems that are taking us down? What are the systems that are keeping us alive? Is cake at the centre of it all?
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VÍKINGUR ÓLAFSSON, piano
Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson has become one of the world’s most sought-after artists in recent years, capturing the public and critical imagination with profound musicianship and visionary programs. His recordings have led to over one billion streams and he has won numerous awards, including the 2025 GRAMMY for Best Classical Instrumental Solo for his recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, BBC Music Magazine’sAlbum of the Year, and the Opus Klassik Solo Recording of the Year (twice). He makes his VRS debut with a deeply personal program, “Opus 109”, centred around Beethoven’s sublime Piano Sonata No. 30.
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A Voynich Manifesto – SJ Kirsch, Viviane Houle & Mind of a Snail
On Curation Mentorship Project Curated by Terri Hron (Montreal) Mentor: Peter Hatch (Salt Spring Island) Post-show artist chat moderated by Terri Hron
An immersive, collaborative audiovisual performance, A Voynich Manifesto takes inspiration from a mysterious medieval manuscript, written in an unknown language that describes and visualizes plants and star charts unknown to us on Earth. Exploring themes of indecipherability and hidden meanings in sound, shadow theatre duo Mind of a Snail (Chloé Ziner & Jessica Gabriel), and vocalists SJ Kirsch and Viviane Houle create this reenchanted world in collaboration with Terri Hron.
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Hard Rubber Orchestra World Premieres
Hard Rubber Orchestra will premiere new work by Anna Webber, Matt Choboter and Noah Franche-Nolan.
We are thrilled to announce Canada’s jazz powerhouse, the Hard Rubber Orchestra’s concert of new work by three Canadian composers: New York-based Anna Webber, Copenhagen-based Matt Choboter and Vancouver resident Noah Franche-Nolan.
Grimaud Plays Gershwin
Celebrated French pianist Hélène Grimaud returns to the VSO to treat us to George Gershwin’s Concerto in F Major, brimming with enthusiasm and rhythm. English conductor Alexander Shelley summons the orchestra’s many musical colours in Ravel’s sensual ballet, Daphnis et Chloé. Peruvian composer Jimmy López’s Aino, hailed by The Chicago Tribune as “one of the most effective CSO commissions in recent seasons” receives its hotly anticipated Vancouver premiere.