Supporting and promoting Vancouver’s vibrant and emerging jazz scene

Afro-Caribbean improvisational trumpet-and-percussion duo Aquiles Navarro & Tcheser Holmes, are longtime friends, collaborators, devotees of New York City’s creative music scenes, and members of celebrated free jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements. In September of 2014, Navarro and Holmes self-released an album of improvisations that they’d recorded in Panama earlier that summer. The following spring, they were […]

Vancouver-born, Berlin-based keyboardist Tyson Naylor has performed internationally in very diverse musical settings, from Free Jazz to Soul to chamber ensembles. He’s played with Destroyer, Frazey Ford, and Dan Mangan, as well as larger groups such as the Warsaw Improviser’s Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and Turning Point Ensemble, and in venues across Canada, the US, […]

Junk Story channels the gritty elegance of 70s and 80s jazz into their own distinctive sound. With a nod to the lost generation of jazz musicians, they capture the spirit of an era when the music was unapologetically raw. For this Frankie’s After Dark performance Junk Story is Chad Makela (saxophone), Brad Turner (electric piano), […]

On July 04, Star System makes their long-awaited return to play the music of the legendary Sun Ra at Hero's Welcome. Led by Dan Gaucher & featuring 13 (!!!!) of […]

Adam Robert Thomas is a JUNO Nominated performer from Vancouver, Canada. He was introduced in the US as the feature vocalist and bassist of the critically acclaimed Dan Brubeck Quartet. […]

One of the finest tenor players in the country makes his return to the Hero's Welcome stage! Ardeshir will be joined by by Winston Matsushita, David Caballero & Graham Villette! […]

Get your tickets at the early bird price of $18 before August 5. Regular tickets will be $25. Here’s the double whammy of the season! Fresh from their sold out […]

MRD3 aka Mad Riddim Dub Trio, features the engine room (Richard Brown - drums, Matt Reid - bass and Cuyler Biller - guitar) of popular Vancouver reggae group Mad Riddim. Forming prior to the pandemic as a way to explore classic reggae albums via a heavy, minimalist and fully improvised dub aesthetic, the group continue […]

Suin Park is a talented piano player and composer from South Korea. She loves music and has a master's degree in jazz performance in Korea. She decided to move to Vancouver, Canada, all by herself, looking for new adventures, even though she didn't know anyone there and wasn't good at English. Suin believes that music […]