The Gibsons Music in the Landing series presents three free concerts this weekend. On Friday, July 28, at 7 p.m. singer-songwriter Jim Foster performs at the end of the Gibsons pier. Foster has recorded three albums for Quest Records over the last decade. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own chairs.
On Saturday at Winegarden Park, the Poppa Gregg rock band performs at 3:30 p.m., featuring Poppa Greg on guitar and vocals, “Smiling” Mike West on bass and vocals, and Tim Rannard drums and vocals.
That night, the Colorifics appear on the Winegarden stage at 7 p.m. The group has been a mainstay of the Vancouver live music scene for almost 25 years. The group takes inspiration from the entire history of recorded music, combining uptempo swing, sultry bossa nova, Afro-Cuban rhythms, cabaret noir and pop music of every era through unique original songs that rival jazz standards of the past and pop hits of today.
Swell selections in Sechelt
In Sechelt, on Saturday, July 29, as part of the free-of-charge Sechelt Summer Music Series, two groups appear on the Hackett Park stage starting at midday.
Farm Team began as a recording project for the album Grooves and Ruts featuring Simon Paradis. Appearing with Paradis will be drummer Jay Bundy Johnson, keyboardist and trumpeter Walter Martella and bassist Boyd Norman. The Colorifics (who appear in Gibsons later in the day), will take to the stage at 1 p.m.
Roberts Creek rocks every Sunday
The Roberts Creek Community Association hosts a lineup of live performers every summer Sunday afternoon, at the gazebo behind the Community Library, through its Slow Sundays in the Creek series.
On July 30, the playbill will include the Beachcombers (noon), The Wildlflowers (12:30 p.m.), David Morgan and Richard Price (1:20 p.m.), and at 2 p.m., Budge Schachte Quartet, with Ken Grunenberg, sax, John Tolson, bass, and Dennis Burke, drums.
Reading out loud
The Gibsons and District Public Library is calling all readers, performers, and writers to live out loud on Aug. 2 at 6:30 p.m.
Readers are invited to share their own original material, or favourite works by someone else: novels, stories, poems, songs, plays, memoirs, and creative nonfiction. Regular participants enjoy reading, performing, or just listening.
A five-minute maximum per person is enforced. Teens, adults, and performers at all levels of English are welcome. For more information, email [email protected]. In-person space is limited; contact the library to register or attend via the Zoom link accessible from the library’s website.
Art is blossoming
On Aug. 5, 6, and 7, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day, the Landing Artists multidisciplinary collective will be at the Botanical Gardens at 5941 Mason Road.
The show will feature new works from familiar favourites: Charmaine Bayntun, Shirley Burton, Diane Clark, Ed Hill, Nancy Hugh, Trisha Joel, Ruth Rodgers, and Coralie Swaney.
The artists encourage guests to visit for free and experience the gardens and browse the paintings, textiles, jewellery, prints and hand-carved wooden utensils.
