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.
Today is the evening to strike lightning / Aaj To Bijiliyan Girane Ki Shaam Hai
Indian Summer Festival is thrilled to present an original, newly commissioned dance work. Justine A. Chambers and Simran Sachar’s first choreographic collaboration is an act of devotion that collapses Waacking, choreographic scores, and gestures sourced from memories and images of their mothers dancing. Today is the evening to strike lightning is a poetic consideration of dances past in order to surface what has been submerged over time.
Echoes of joy, resistance, and care are embodied in a tender act of reclamation, a quiet riot against forgetting. Folding the past into the present to make way for something newly possible, here, every step is an offering toward what endures.
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Indian Summer Sounds
As the sun sets over Coast Salish skies, join us for an evening of genre-defying live music featuring some of the West Coast’s most inventive artists.
The night begins with the expressive strings and vocals of Sejal Lal, moves into the soulful sounds of Jody Okabe, and flows into the hip-hop-infused elemental soundscapes of Ruby Singh’s kraKIN. The evening crescendos with the bold brass of Surya Brass Band, who will lead a procession through the plaza to Horizons, our ticketed event inside the Playhouse.
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Horizons
How do we hold grief in these fractured times? When nation states starve the innocent and empires redraw borders with ruthless intent, when tools meant to connect us end up driving us apart, we turn to artists to offer meaning and remind us of our humanity. Horizons gathers a luminous constellation of award-winning artists who offer us vision, sanctuary, and solidarity.
Jeremy Ledbetter Trio & Ragaverse
It’s happening! When Jeremy Ledbetter and Shruti Ramani met for the first time at the 2025 Juno Awards they shared their hopes to share a stage one day. Now the dream is coming true! Preparations are underway: fresh drum heads for Grammy-award winning drummer, Larnell Lewis, have already arrived at Pyatt Hall, all the way from Daddario, the world’s largest musical instrument accessories manufacturer. The drums will be tuned up just right to sound extra good for the show. Come listen for yourself – get your tickets before they sell out!
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Alam Khan In Concert
When Alam Khan moves across the sarod’s steel strings, time dilates. As the Khalifa of the Maihar Gharana, son of the legendary Swara Samrat Ali Akbar Khan and grandson of Ustad Allauddin Khan, Alam Khan offers not just performance, but transmission.
As an internationally celebrated virtuoso, Alam Khan stands today as the head of one of the world’s most influential and revered lineages of Indian classical music. He has graced many of the world’s most prestigious stages, including Royal Jodhpur Palace, the Dover Lane Music Festival in Calcutta, and New York’s Lincoln Center Jazz festival, as well as highly acclaimed concerts all over the United States, Canada, Europe and India, in addition to his teaching work with CalArts.
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Much Ado About Nothing
“As merry as the day is long.” Two of Shakespeare’s most tumultuous couples—sparring singles Beatrice and Benedick, and young lovers Claudio and Hero—discover all is not as it seems in an idyllic town recovering from war. Will the truth win in this mischievous game of love? Secret love, courtship, and marriage intertwine with darker themes of warfare, deception, and mischief in Much Ado About Nothing. Romance, wit, and mistaken identities power this new staging of Shakespeare’s beloved comedy full of colourful characters, passionate poetry, and Shakespeare’s wittiest wordplay.
Directed by Johnna Wright with additional text by Erin Shields.
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