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Dancer/choreographer Dongmei, from the Beijing Dance Academy, joins the Sound of Dragon Ensemble in Consensus at the Orpheum Annex on Thursday, March 9 at 8 p.m. The intercultural group includes bowed strings, with Lan Tung and Nicole Li on erhu/Chinese violin and Marina Hasselberg on cello; plucked strings, with Zhimin Yu on the ruan/Chinese lute and Itamar Erez on guitar; winds, with Charlie Lui on the dizi/Chinese flute and Roderick Seed on the flute, and Jonathan Bernard on percussion instruments from around the world. Dongmei, who has travelled extensively throughout China studying the choreography of different cultures, will blend Uyghur and modern styles to Tony Leung’s Desert Dew and Farshid Samandari’s Breath of Life. Tickets: $15 regular, $10 students/seniors/children. For more information visit soundofdragon.com.Supplied

Wild Tchoupitoulas
On a Fat Tuesday in the last week of February, George Landry and his “Mardi Gras Indians,” the Wild Tchoupitoulas, perform “Meet De Boys on the Battlefront” in New Orleans with The Meters:
http://bit.ly/1Yms24b.

Alex Burrows
Left winger Alexandre "Alex" Ménard-Burrows scored both goals in Ottawa Senators win over Colorado last night. The Vancouver Canucks sent him to Marc Crawford’s Senators at the trading deadline earlier in the week. Burrows’ 2-1 OT goal against the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 7 of the 2011 Quarterfinals was just one of his great clutch performances: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TbJ-SKrsYs.

Get Out
Jordan Peele’s marvellous think piece masquerading as a comedy/horror/thriller, Get Out, is the perfect antidote for these Trumpian times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzfpyUB60YY. Richard Brody writes about the film in this week's New Yorker "Jordan Peele's radical cinematic vision of the world through black eyes: http://bit.ly/2mU8s3P.

Tinariwen
North African desert blues rockers return to Vancouver for a gig at UBC’s Chan Centre on April 5. Live performance on Seattle’s KEXP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gINDDDo3do8. North Shore News interview from 2010 visit: http://bit.ly/2m0xLBR.

Vagabon
“The Embers” video from Laetitia Tamko’s new album Infinite Worlds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTo_Dsa8ijM.

Dongmei
Beijing dancer performing with Sound of Dragon Ensemble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2usCRNydwQo.

Tennis
Band performed at Biltmore March 1. Live on KCRW: “Ladies Don’t Play Guitar”: bit.ly/2lSTtHv and “Never Work for Free”: bit.ly/2lPCdGm.

Freddie King
“Goin’ Down” produced by Leon Russell for his Shelter Records in 1971: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy-ivQHf3O8. Colin James pays tribute to King with his version of the song on Blue Highways.

Nikki Lane
“Send the Sun” performed at the LR Baggs soundcheck in Nashville, TN during the 2016 Americana Festival. New album, Highway Queen, out now on New West: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8aQvXu5mxA.

Mizoguchi
The Cinematheque is screening a survey of some of Japanese filmmaker Kenji Mizoguchi’s greatest works, Mizoguchi the Master: Seven Films, through March 12. Kaneto Shindo’s documentary, Kenji Mizoguchi The Life of a Film Director, 1975: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0R0zYtlyF0.