SIMONE RAPISARDA CASANOVA
The Cinematheque is screening two works tonight by Simone Rapisarda Casanova, an Italian filmmaker, based in Vancouver: La creazione di significato (Canada/Italy 2014) at 6:30 p.m. and the Canadian premiere of Zanj Helga la (Canada/Haiti/USA/Italy) at 8:30 p.m. Peter Dickinson, director of the Institute for Performance Studies - Simon Fraser University, will introduce the screening of La creazione di significato with the filmmaker in attendance.
KID KOALA
Scratch DJ Kid Koala releases his latest collaborative effort today, Music To Draw To: Io, featuring Belgian-American vocalist Trixie Whitley, via Arts & Crafts. Several singles have been released ahead of the launch, including “All for You.” He says, “I’m very excited to release Io, this second instalment in the Music To Draw To series. It was recorded layer by layer in the studio over the last two winters. It was an honour to have Trixie Whitley appear on several songs as I’ve been a fan of her work for many years.”
Whitley is the daughter of the late musician Chris Whitley (1960-2005) and Hélène Gevaert.
The album is available in double vinyl, sketchbook CD, and all digital formats.
Ólafur Arnalds
Icelandic musician Ólafur Arnalds performs two shows at the Commodore Ballroom on Monday, Jan. 28 at 7 and 10:30 p.m. The second show is sold out. The multi-instrumentalist composer has learned all about the Baroques, the Romantics and the Contemporaries and filters them through his own exploratory sensibility marrying old and new sounds. The Chopin Project with Alice Sara Ott, from 2015, is a personal favourite. Arnalds’ latest album, Re:member, uses Stratus system software that he developed with Halldór Eldjárn. The programming sends instructions to two pianos with Arnalds providing audio values through the chords or notes he plays.
TENILLE TOWNES
Grande Prairie, Alberta, country musician Tenille Townes signed a record deal with Columbia Nashville in 2018 and released the EP, Living Room Worktapes, in April of last year, featuring four acoustic tracks.
Right out of the gate she's making a strong statement with the first single, "Somebody's Daughter," from her debut full-length album set to drop in 2019.
The Canadian-born, Nashville-based Townes opens for Dierks Bentley at Rogers Arena in Vancouver on Jan. 29.
JON PARDI
California country musician Jon Pardi, last seen live on Miranda Lambert's Livin’ Like Hippies Tour, will also be performing at Rogers Arena on Jan. 29 as part of the Dierks Bentley tour. Pardi released five singles from his last album, California Sunrise, and may be getting ready to drop a new one.
DIERKS BENTLEY
Headliner Dierks Bentley, performing Jan. 29 at Rogers Arena in Vancouver on the Burning Man Tour named after the opening track on his latest album The Mountain.
PAUL MCCARTNEY
Former Beatle Paul McCartney is bringing his Freshen Up tour to the Americas in 2019 and announced today that Vancouver will be his only Canadian date at BC Place on Saturday, July 6.
The on sale date and time for tickets has yet to be determined. Visit ticketmaster.ca for details.
The Beatles began recording “Penny Lane,” essentially a Paul McCartney composition, in December 1966, as part of the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band sessions. Plans changed and they instead released it as a double A side single in February 1967, with the John Lennon composition “Strawberry Fields Forever.” Going to Lennon’s house McCartney would get off at the Penny Lane bus stop.
Scandinavian filmmaker Peter Goldmann shot videos for both songs in East London with The Beatles in January 1967. He also took a film crew, without the band, to Liverpool to shoot around Penny Lane.
EMILY KING
NYC contemporary pop R&B musician Emily King releases her new album, Scenery, next week on ATO Records. She plays the Fortune Sound Club in Vancouver on Sunday, Jan. 27 at 8 p.m. 19+
PANCHO VILLA FROM A SAFE DISTANCE
Graham Reynolds and Lagartijas Tiradas Al Sol present the experimental chamber opera Pancho Villa From a Safe Distance at the Vogue Theatre on Jan. 31, 8 p.m. as part of the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Reynolds is also participating in other events at the festival.
NEIL YOUNG
Originally billed as solo gigs, Neil Young is now bringing Crazy Horse to play two shows with him in Winnipeg on Feb. 3 and 4.
