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Due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions, the 38th edition of the TD Victoria International JazzFest will be held online next month. One of the performers playing at what has been coined Virtual JazzFest is local trombonist, bassist, and producer Nick La Riviere. And while the show is virtual, that doesn’t mean La Riviere isn’t going full-steam […]

The Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival (GVSF) won’t be held at Camosun College this year. The festival, which was postponed last year due to COVID, has been held annually in the area between Wilna Thomas and the Dunlop House at the college’s Lansdowne campus. However, due to construction at Wilna Thomas as well as COVID-19 restrictions, […]

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 […]