DJANGO REINHARDT
Capilano University’s A Band and NiteCap Ensembles pay tribute to the music of Django Reinhardt tonight at the BlueShore at Cap at 8 p.m. Tickets $30/$27. Jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stéphane Grappelli perform “Jattendrai Swing” live in 1939.
KENDRICK LAMAR/SZA
Kendrick Lamar, up for seven Grammy Awards on Sunday, brings The Championship Tour to Rogers Arena on May 4 with Schoolboy Q and SZA among others. Tickets go on sale today at noon. Kendrick Lamar and SZA perform “All The Stars” on Black Panther soundtrack.
PHANTOM THREAD
Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood nominated for Academy Award for Phantom Thread soundtrack. Jonny Greenwood performing film scores with the London Contemporary Orchestra at Boiler Room Manchester: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG8GR1msPpo.
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER
All the Money in the World performance nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Plummer starred in The Silent Partner, directed by West Vancouver filmmaker Daryl Duke, back in 1978 alongside Elliott Gould and Samantha York.
FLEETWOOD MAC
2018 MusiCares Person Of The Year: Fleetwood Mac. Musicians pay tribute to the band tonight at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Busker Slim Freedom performs Stevie Nicks’ “Landslide” in Chicago’s subway on the Blue Line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x--yddOolRQ. Peter Green and Fleetwood Mac play their ‘new single’ “Oh Well” on the BBC’s Monster Music Mash in 1969: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yq-Fw7C26Y.
HUGH MASEKELA
South African jazz icon Hugh Masekela passed away on Jan. 23. His original band The Jazz Epistles perform at UBC’s Chan Centre on Feb. 18.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2Ec1InLOCw. “Hugh Masekela’s music was black as night,” Eric Burdon sang in the 1967 track “Monterey”:
LEAVING THOMAS
The Rockin’ River Music Fest returns to Merritt, B.C. on August long weekend with new business partner Live Nation. The four-day schedule includes Leaving Thomas. “Wrong One, Right Time”.
SHANE MACGOWAN
Dublin bash (featuring the likes of Nick Cave, Bono, Johnny Depp, Sinead O'Connor) celebrated Shane MacGowan’s 60th birthday on Jan. 15: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffHCh6ZCZfo.
BLOODIES BUT UNBOWED
Susanne Tabata’s history of the Vancouver punk scene screens at The Cinematheque on Jan. 29 at 8:30 p.m., with the filmmaker in attendance: http://www.thecinematheque.ca/the-image-before-us-take-4/bloodied-but-unbowed.
MARK. E. SMITH
Manchester music iconoclast Mark E. Smith dies age 60: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jan/24/mark-e-smith-the-fall.
