JULIA JACKLIN
Australian singer-songwriter Julia Jacklin, touring North America in support of her stellar debut release, Don’t Let The Kids Win, performs at the Biltmore on Saturday, Nov. 18. Atlanta’s Faye Webster opens. Doors: 7 p.m. Show: 8 p.m. Visit juliajacklin.com to hear her new 7-inch Eastwick/Cold Caller. NPR Tiny Desk Concert: youtube.com/watch?v=f7-3kiK6F_Q.
ANDREI KONCHALOVSKY'S PARADISE
The latest from Russian filmmaker Andrey Konchalovsky is currently showing at Vancity Theatre: https://vimeo.com/199023582.
GABRIEL THIBAUDEAU
Tonight at The Cinematheque (1131 Howe St.) at 7 p.m. silent film pianist Gabriel Thibaudeau, in residence at the Cinémathèque Québécoise in Montreal, will perform the original score he wrote to accompany the restoration of the film Back to God’s Country. Free admission. The 1919 film features Victoria-born silent film pioneer Nell Shipman: http://www.thecinematheque.ca/canada-on-screen/back-to-gods-country.
ROBERT ALTMAN
Iconic Anti-Western shot in West Vancouver in 1971, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, screening on TCM TV channel today at 2:30 a.m.: youtube.com/watch?v=zS5ipcHbgOk. “Boot and fog: Robert Altman kept his distance from Old Hollywood”: nsnews.com/entertainment/film/boot-and-fog-robert-altman-kept-his-distance-from-old-hollywood-1.1528580.
SHARON VAN ETTEN
Brilliant singer/songwriter Sharon Van Etten releases a re-mixed, remastered and re-titled version of her 2008 debut. (It Was) Because I Was In Love out today on Language of Stone: https://www.sharonvanetten.com.
JOHN MANN
Sold Out Spirit of Canada benefit for John Mann tonight at the Commodore Ballroom featuring Jim Cuddy, Alan Doyle, Ed Robertson of Barenaked Ladies, Sarah McLachlan, Colin James, Barney Bentall, Spirit Of The West, Kendel Carson, Dustin Bentall, Odds, Shari Ulrich, Jim Byrnes, Spirit – The Next Generation: commodoreballroom.com/view-all/2017/11/19/spirit-of-canada-a-benefit-for-john-mann.
JANE
Filmmaker Brett Morgen got access to over 140 hours of “forgotten” 16mm footage National Geographic shot of primatologist Jane Goodall working with chimpanzees in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park in the 1960s. Vancity Theatre screens the new documentary, with a score from Philip Glass, this week: youtube.com/watch?v=erI1UfVUGTk.
SHARON JONES & THE DAP KINGS
“Matter of Time” from Soul of a Woman, posthumous album released today on Daptone Records: youtube.com/watch?v=ipynkBxtMOc.
HAMILTON LEITHAUSER
Performed at the Biltmore earlier this week. “Heartstruck (Wild Hunger)” with Angel Olsen: youtube.com/watch?v=tM1L_1fkCzQ.
PETER TROWER
North Shore logger poet passed away Nov. 10. John Mackie remembers him in the Vancouver Sun: http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/obituary-b-c-s-logger-poet-peter-trower-dies-at-87.
