JEFF YOUNGER'S DEVIL LOOPS - Wednesday, June 18, Orpheum Annex

Jeff Younger is a 6-string master who has learned the most extreme techniques of the guitar and developed some of his own.     

The Halifax Jazz Festival

photo credit Wendy D

We are so excited to bring innovative guitarist/composer Jeff Younger to our Trier Performance Series, Orpheum Annex, Wednesday, June 18 at 8pm. The concert celebrates the release of Devil Loops volume 2, some of his most intense and riveting explorations in improvised music.

Jeff is just wrapping up a month long European tour that included Amsterdam, Berlin and Mannheim, and performances with some of Europe's finest improvisers, including Michael Moore, Ab Baars, Ig Henneman, Achim Kaufmann and Raoul Van der Weide. Joining him at the Orpheum Annex are some of Vancouver's best, including JP Carter and Dylan Van Der Schyff. We'll be posting more information soon about dancers and videographers that will also be part of this multimedia collaboration.

Directly after the Devil Loops release concert, Jeff will be featured in The Vancouver International Jazz Festival’s opening weekend Tonal Interactive Media Experiment, and wrap things up as the only non-international clinician during the festival’s closing weekend.

Devil Loops are completely improvised pieces for solo electric guitar, utilizing electronics and a wide array of extended techniques. Jeff brings a composer's mind and an improviser's fingers to the process, not thinking about the piece until he sits down to play the first note. The result is unplanned and untethered sonic expressions of beauty, darkness, fire and humour. Teeming with musical language and rhythmic complexity one minute or fuelled by primal and abstract expressionism the next, the audience is both witness and participant in the unpredictable unfolding of the moment.

Railtown Cultural Eclective’s Trier Series provides a showcase for the myriad talents of Vancouver emerging and established artists. The support of City of Vancouver Theatre Rental Grant Program makes it possible to present the series at Vancouver’s new performance venue the Orpheum Annex.

The concert, June 18, starts at 8pm at the Orpheum Annex, 823 Seymour Street. Doors open at 7pm. Tickets are $20 which includes CD/ $15 general admission and available at www.northerntickets.com soon. For more information email info@railtownce.ca or call 604-836-9943.

more information on Jeff Younger can be found at jeffyounger.net

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Making a Circus Of The Seven Deadly Sins

Leah James makes a circus of greed and envy in The Seven Deadly Sins

Thursday, November 14, 2013
Orpheum Annex, 823 Seymour Street
Show 8pm Doors 7pm
Tickets $20/$15 Students, Seniors & Arts Workers

Tickets available at northerntickets.com

The Seven Deadly Sins Simply Heaven

The Seven Deadly Sins 
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Orpheum Annex, 823 Seymour Street
Show 8pm Doors 7pm
Tickets $20/$15 Students, Seniors & Arts Workers

Tickets available at northerntickets.com 

Railtown Cultural Eclective, brings The Seven Deadly Sins to their Trier Performance Series at the Orpheum Annex, Thursday, November 14 at 8pm.

The Seven Deadly Sins, is a musical  journey to hell and back, in dance, clown, and circus, depicting the cardinal sins of pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and sloth.

The music of Tim Sars is rooted in Vancouver counter cultures, which in nature draw on musical genres from around the world, such as Balkan brass, Calypso and New Orleans Jazz. His sound provides the perfect backdrop to Vancouver’s vibrant performance art community and is the inspiration for this production.

Anna Mayfire’s animated dance depicts anger turning to lust, while sloth and gluttony are presented in the dark humor of Gerardo Avila’s expressive clowning. Lexi von Wonderful and Golden Brian display pride in burlesque. With her suspended silks Leah James makes a circus of greed and envy.

Sars, on reeds and vocals, is joined by Roisin Adams on piano, trumpet and vocals; Jocelyn Waugh on trumpet;  Ross Barrett on tenor sax, Pim van Geffen on trombone, Russell Scholberg on bass, and Jamie Carter on drums.  The interplay between sight and sound makes The Seven Deadly Sins simply heaven.

With the Trier Performance Series, Railtown Cultural Eclective provides a showcase for the talents of Vancouver emerging and established artists. The support of City of Vancouver Theatre Rental Grant Program has made it possible to present the series at Vancouver’s new performance venue, the Orpheum Annex. 
For more information email info@railtownce.ca or call 604-836-9943.

Orchestra Familia October 9th at the Orpheum Annex

Railtown Cultural Eclective
Trier Series Presents
Orchestra Familia 
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Orpheum Annex, 823 Seymour Street
Show 8pm Doors 7pm
Tickets $20/$15 Students, Seniors & Arts Workers

Vancouver, BC….Railtown Cultural Eclective, brings Orchestra Familia to their Trier Performance Series at the Orpheum Annex, Wednesday, October 9 at 8pm.

The well loved Rio Samaya Band with leaders Fransisco Pace (vocals, guitar, charango, ukeleles, quena and flutes) and Sal Pace (vocals, accordion and percussion) have merged with sought after Bocephus King (vocals, lead guitar percussion), Wynston Minckler (bass), Charlie Hase (pedal steel, dobro), Paul Townsend (drums, vocals), Persian wizard Ali Razmi (tar, setar, saz),  Colin "Tutuks" Maskell (baritone, soprano and tenor sax, flute and vocals) and Ja Pace (dancer, percussion, saw) to create Orchestra Familia. 

Together, they have developed a unique voice of a multi-cultural community.  Their spirited rhythms, gypsy grooves and dynamic tunes will take you on a journey across the globe, through its deserts, forests, and busy streets.  Their original, classical and new music has a refreshing personality and celebrates the world coming together.

The members of Orchestra Familia come from all corners of the earth but fate has gathered them together in Vancouver, British Columbia.  They have all played in various configurations, in myriad venues, in a town known for its multicultural diversity.  But something happens with this particular unit that defies description.  They can take you to that "OTHER PLACE" so quickly, so consistently and so joyously…..you'll be transformed!

Orchestra Familia performs Wednesday, October 9 at 8pm at the Orpheum Annex, 823 Seymour Street.  Doors open at 7pm. Tickets are $20 Adults/ $15 students, seniors and arts workers and available at www.northerntickets.com . For more information email info@railtownce.ca or call 604-836-9943.

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Orchestra Familia will transform you! October 9 at the Opheum Annex

Ever made that list of all that you desire.......

What do you need in a partner?  Lauri Lyster shares her criteria in a song "The List" from her musical revue, The Drummer Girl, coming up July 25 at the Orpheum Annex.  She's funny, fab and backed by a hot band!   Tickets are going fast so get yours now at http://northerntickets.com/events/the-drummer-girl/ 

Summer Sizzles & The Drummer Girl Is Hot!

Railtown Cultural Eclective Trier Series Presents

A Diamond Tree Foundation Production
The Drummer Girl
July 25, 2013,  8 pm Doors 7pm
The Orpheum Annex, 823 Seymour Street, Vancouver
Tickets  $20/$15 Seniors, Students & Arts Workers

available at Northern Tickets

 Multi-talented percussionist, Lauri Lyster brings The Drummer Girl to the Orpheum Annex, July 25.  No stranger to “structure, rhythm, and flow”,   Lyster has grounded everything from the landmark jazz/blues ensemble Mother of Pearl to the Vancouver Opera Orchestra but in this production her writing, acting and comedic skills shine as she steps out from behind the kit to take centre stage.

“The Drummer Girl moves from blues to balady, frame drum to kit”, says Lyster. “Costume changes and slide images accompany me as I take you on a journey through my life as a female drummer making a living making...a lot of noise!”

Lyster has assembled a great line-up of musicians to join her in this musical romp: Laurence Mollerup on bass; Brenda Baird on keyboard, vocals;  Evan Arntzen on saxophone, clarinet;  Kat Wahamaa on vocals, mandolin and Simon Stribling on saxophone and trumpet.  Stribling fronts the Jeff Healey Award-winning New Orleans Alestars and The Hoppin’ Mad Orchestra, projects of which Lyster is also a member. The two are a trio in real life along with their young daughter Scarlet.

To satisfy a yearning to be more than a “side-man”, Lyster hit upon the idea of creating a musical revue that would showcase her various abilities in a range of musical styles. The Drummer Girl debuted at the Firehall Arts Centre last year to rave responses. From standards such as Cheek to Cheek and Wild Women Don’t Get the Blues to Lyster’s originals, The Road to Utah and The List, The Drummer Girl dances to a different drum with a beat sure to please.

Lyster is also offering a women’s drumming workshop entitled We're All Drummers! An Introduction to Hand Drumming and Percussion, on Saturday, July 20 from 1-3pm.  This beginner’s session covers basic rhythmic practice using some of the more common percussion instruments that you’ll encounter, including bells and clave, shakers and hand drums (ie. conga, dumbek and djembe). Cost is $20 with pre-registration by July 18 required. For more information and to register please contact info@railtownce.ca  or call 604-836-9943.

Tickets for The Drummer Girl are on sale now at Northern Tickets at www.northerntickets.com or by phone at 604-569-1144. For more info on The Drummer Girl email info@railtownce.ca or visit www.railtownce.ca or  www.thedrummergirl.com  or call Railtown Cultural Eclective at 604-836-9943.