To celebrate the music of Sun Ra, two of Vancouver’s strongest creative voices join forces for a one-night only performance at the VIFF Centre, along with a rare screening of the revolutionary 1974 Afro-Futurist film Space is the Place, featuring Sun Ra. Feven Kidane is a Vancouver-based trumpeter who has been selling out shows at […]
The Quincy Mayes Brazilian Soul Experience is thrilled to present a special performance showcasing the diverse, Afro-centric roots of samba, soul, and funk. Featuring musical selections from an eclectic group of all Black Composers and alongside a screening of the quintessential Brazilian film City of God (2002), this evening is curated in tribute to the […]
Qalandar are a contemporary Persian ensemble that strike a balance between tradition and innovation. Get Tickets The ensemble (featuring Ali Razmi on vcocals, Hamin Honari on tombak and daf, Kenton Loewen on drums, Gordon Grdina on oud, and Hidayat Honari on tar) combines Arabic, Persian music and free improvisation with traditional and contemporary Persian pieces. […]
Early bird tickets are available now! There are a limited number of early bird tickets available, so don’t wait! Our latest VIFF Live presentation combines a jazz set led by drummer Kevin Romain and one of the most notorious music docs ever made, Jay Bulger’s bruising encounter with the legendary Ginger Baker, aka “the world’s […]
The Happiest Big Band on Earth had their first show on April 27th, 2018, and was born through Matt Grinke’s love of jazz and Disney. Since then, the Happiest band has continued to morph and shift into many different sounds and sizes, anywhere from a trio to the full 17-piece big band, including this quintet! […]
Returning to the VIFF stage, Biboye Onanuga, presents: ’The Music of Monk’. Get Tickets The Edmonton-based drummer is joined by an iconoclastic ensemble of Vancouver musicians Quincy Mayes (piano), Jodi Proznick (bass), and John Nicholson (tenor) for an evening of Monk tunes and arrangements before the 1988 documentary Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser. “The key […]
Early bird tickets are available now! There are a limited number of early bird tickets available, so don’t wait! Get Tickets If you don’t know the Betty Davis, prepare to be blown away. With her deep, raw, earthy voice, a knack for stringing together funky riffs, and sexually super-charged lyrics, Davis shook and shocked American […]
Four of Vancouver’s best jazz musicians come together as BC’s Blue Note Legacy Quartet! Get Tickets For 85 years, Blue Note Records has been the gold standard for recorded Jazz music all over the world, with icons like John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Ornette Coleman, and literally hundreds of others having recorded […]
Presented with an original live score by acclaimed pianist and composer Chris Gestrin, the first signature Hitchcock movie is based on the Jack The Ripper murders (here renamed “The Avenger”). As the suspicion that a neighbour may not be all he seems, the cat- and-mouse tension reaches almost unbearable proportions. Get Tickets Made in 1926 […]
After selling out multiple venues across Vancouver, Jeffery Chen’s Chen Baker band is back (and bigger than ever) to present a set of city pop and jazzy J-pop before the […]