Arts

Austin Stambaugh Magnolia Sessions (Anti-Corporate Music) 4.5/5 If Johnny Cash’s most introspective musical moments and Irish pub folk singer Johnny Duhan’s most morose songs got drunk on a lonely winter night and joined hands, Nashville-based folk singer Austin Stambaugh’s Magnolia Sessions would be the introspective, sad, soul-feeding result. This music on this album—the latest in […]

Fences Wide Eyed Elk Ensemble (Enci Records) 3.5/5 Christopher Mansfield, vocalist and guitarist of Seattle indie pop/rock band Fences, has lived a colourful life, including time spent in rehab. He’s tapped into that on the band’s new EP, Wide Eyed Elk Ensemble: the release is a great grab bag of emotions. “Boot Height” is a […]

“No matter what background you come from, no matter what your politics are, no matter what it is about you that might make you different from somebody else in society, not being able to pee when you need to pee is something that everyone in this world can relate to.” So says Canadian College of […]

From May 11 to 16, the Belfry Theatre is presenting The (Post) Mistress, a lighthearted musical starring Krystle Pederson in a solo performance as Marie-Louise Painchaud, a woman who works in a post office in a small town, where she knows just about everything about just about everybody. She shares stories and songs, accompanied by […]

The first, and most important, person that we will ever come into contact with is our mother. This is why one of our most important holidays is Mother’s Day. And the Victoria Conservatory of Music understands the significance of Mother’s Day: their yearly Mother’s Day Musical Garden Tour has been happening for 39 years, and […]

In support of Youth Mental Health Day, the Greater Victoria Youth Orchestra (GVYO) is presenting a performance of Jordan Noble’s Apollo, featuring over 350 students from across BC, united as the Apollo Initiative. The performance, happening tomorrow, is free, but donations are encouraged in an effort to raise funds to support youth facing mental-health challenges […]

Every year, artists contribute to festivals around the globe to help celebrate the value of art and its ability to cover challenging topics, like racism and gender issues, that some attendees would perhaps not be thinking about. A good example of this is Victoria’s own UNO Fest, which is running online from April 20 to […]

Everyone can find something to like about the Beatles, says Victoria-based director Jacob Richmond, who is directing Spring Beatles, a five-person Beatles tribute show being livestreamed by Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre, starting today. Richmond’s second stab at online directing is still an experiment, he says, because of the many different artistic mediums this show demands. […]

In 2001, Dan Eastabrook made the winning bid on an old Fuji digital camera on eBay and started taking pictures. Twenty years later, he’s being featured in Real Life, Real Light, a solo show at Fortune Gallery. Eastabrook is a multi-genre photographer with a penchant for landscape and urban images. He attended Victoria’s Western Academy […]

The Reds, Pinks & Purples Uncommon Weather (Slumberland Records) 2.5/5 Uncommon Weather is the third album from San Franscisco-based solo indie/pop artist Glenn Donaldson, and is meant to be a portrait of San Francisco. Donaldson’s path to this release has several threads of inspiration, the most important of which is the artistic heritage of his […]