
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.
Absolute Unit
For those looking for an unusual musical experience, Absolute Unit is an unpredictable 18-piece psychedelic lounge orchestra, playing indescribable music combining drum’n’bass, ambient, noise, soundart, and a few funky hits from the 70s. Absolute Unit is made up of an all-star collection of Vancouver’s top artists: 4 laptop/ electronica performers, two drummers, two keyboard players, bassist, guitarist, six horns, vocalist and projection artist.
Innovative, high-energy and fun, this concert at the Fox will feature the mesmerizing visuals of Hadis Fard.
Started in 2022 by John Korsrud, Absolute Unit has history of creating site-specific performances, starting with workshops at LanaLou’s in Vancouver’s DTES and more recently exploring the immersive acoustics of the SFU Woodwards Atrium. This will be its first show at the Fox Cabaret.
Learn MoreSankofa Danzafro (Colombia)
“Dance is a voice in favor of equity. It helped us survive in times of slavery. It was our voice when we were denied the word. It became a narrative, a memory and a hope for the future.” – Rafael Palacios, choreographer
Created in celebration of Colombia’s 159th Anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery, The City of Others takes apart the country’s history and culture to examine its complex and often agonizing past.
For thousands of people, cities can be a place of hostility, loneliness, and discrimination. Palacios believes that for life to be positive and constructive for collective communities, it is necessary to embrace the extended family concept prevalent in rural communities: what I own is for everyone; under my roof, there is room for someone else.
With the second largest Afro-descent population in Latin America, Colombia’s diasporic communities have suffered discrimination and inequality. In The City of Others, twelve dancers and musicians occupy the stage, laying claim to political and social power, reconstituting the theatrical space as a site of democracy, equality, and wholeness. This is their city – it is everyone’s city.
Learn MoreKara-Lis Coverdale
Kara-Lis Coverdale is a composer and musician who combines traditional organ sounds with contemporary electronic elements, creating immersive and layered compositions within unique sonic landscapes that challenge conventional perceptions of organ music. She will perform new work that will be presented on the Pacific Spirit United Church’s magnificent Casavant Frères pipe organ, the largest of its kind in Vancouver. With an opening set by Immix, a new solo project by Robyn Jacob (Vancouver).
Learn MoreYUNCHAN LIM PIANO
The Rach 3 heard round the world” was how it was described when 18-year-old South Korean pianist Yunchan Lim astonished listeners with his rendition of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 at the 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. His breathtaking performances at the Cliburn secured his place as the youngest person ever to take home the gold medal, and a star was born. He was dubbed an “immediate sensation” by The New York Times, and the official video of that Rach 3 performance has since garnered over 14 million views on YouTube. Moments after his victory, Lim revealed that the next piece he intended to learn for performance was J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations. He has made good on that promise, and we’re thrilled to present him in his Vancouver debut playing Bach’s crowning keyboard achievement.
J. S. BACH: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
“That rare artist who brings profound musicality and prodigious technique organically together.” — Marin Alsop
Learn MoreWe All Fall Down
Street and contemporary dance collide as three dancers weave in and out of sync, supported by a live, hypnotic musical soundtrack that blends the sounds and rhythms of jazz, hip-hop and drum’n’bass. Inspired by chaos theory and complex mathematical equations, Papillon reflects on order and disorder, singularity and similarity, loneliness and togetherness, and the importance of human connection. We All Fall Down formalizes a 20-year collaboration between Helen and composer Roger White. The company examines the relationship between movement and sound, creating shows where performers are in a constant state of metamorphosis.Presented with Music on Main.
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