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Bremner Duthie, a classically trained singer and musician gives us an idea of how stifling and stultifying it must be for long-term performers at Disneyland, 'the happiest place on earth' ™.   But what about the risks of moving on and leaving the security of a good pay cheque, benefits, an early retirement age?  With story-telling, songs and mean self- accompaniment on the button accordion and ukelele, we're taken cabaret-style through an exploration of one of those timeless questions:  What is happiness?

Characters like a world war veteran returning home to Canada (with a somewhat anachronistic but kinda sweet Joni Mitchell...

Bremner Duthie

Armed with an Oboe commonly mistaken for a clarinet, and an unusual green ‘significant other’ called Juliet, talented Englishman and actor-musician, Tim Goldman, takes his audience on a train ride of calamity across London from one demanding unsuccessful audition to the next.

Goldman Variations is a one-man show that combines comedy, storytelling, clowning, music, and a cast of crazy characters all of whom are played by Goldman himself. With the addition of a headband or a pair of sunglasses, a hat or a wig, as well as a posture and voice change, the audience is introduced to the girl on...

Goldman Variations

HIVE has returned to Vancouver and solidified it's place as the best performance event this city has to offer.

What it's like inside the HIVE: Sugar featuring Raes Calvert, Nita Bowerman, Lisa Oppenheim

The Magnetic Fields are one of those rare bands don’t neatly fall into a clearly defined category or genre, nor have they been adopted and defended by any single generation or demographic.

Magnetic Fields

Christ Church Cathedral; a smooth black Celtic harp; a sexy hot curvaceous chick in black Goth wear; gray haired old lady in the front row; Jesus on the cross; punk rocker sitting in the third row; sounds of musical passion and love; words of  profanity and poetry; edgy unique performance - this melange of contradictions is what the Fringe Festival is all about for me.

Punk with harp

Vancouver: What a premise, I thought. If I ever ride the rails from coast to coast, what more could I ask for than a Canadian soundtrack performed live by a guitar virtuoso? Not much but the artists themselves and the time-travelling ability to catch the train in 1969.

Colin Godbout

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