If you love jazz and world music, have I got a prize for you: a pair of tickets to this weekend’s Water’s Edge Music Festival at the Evergreen Cultural Centre on the pretty shores of Lafarge Lake in Coquitlam, BC.
Beginning at 9:30 am on Saturday, March 7 and for 25 non-stop hours, more than 300 performers will strut their musical stuff during 25 events at seven indoor and outdoor venues. The question isn’t whether to attend, but who to attend to: will you catch R. Murray Schafer’s Music for Wilderness Lake featuring 12 trombonists playing to one another across the lake? Or 2008 National Jazz Award winner Jodi Proznick and her quartet? Grammy-nominated Cuban jazz great Bobby Carcasses? Or maybe the midnight drum circle?
And that’s just for starters…you’ve got to have stamina for this marathon swim in deep musical waters…
WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS!
Just leave a comment telling me which of the following four shows you’d most like to attend on Saturday, March 7. I’ll do a random draw for a pair of tickets (valued at $50) tomorrow (Friday, March 6), at 5 pm. Remember to leave contact info!
Saturday, 3 PM: Vocomotion brings to life music from many cultures and traditions
Saturday, 6 PM: Jodi Proznick Quartet
Saturday, 8 PM: JUNO-nominated Brad Turner Quartet
Saturday, 10:30 PM: Bobby Carcasses and AFROJAZZ from Cuba
Be quick and good luck!
March 5, 2009 at 8:35 am
I’d love to go and hear the AfroJazz from Cuba and as a starter I’d warm up with Vocomotion — Brian Tate, Dawn Pemberton & Karla Mundy.
March 5, 2009 at 10:13 am
Hi Julie–I’d love to have tickets to the Brad Turner Quartet!
March 5, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Hi Julie,
I’d love to win tickets to vocomotion.
March 5, 2009 at 9:30 pm
What a great event! Vocomotion sounds fantastic, and as I’ve long been a fna of the Linda Tillery choir, I’m sure I’ll love it.
I think I’d also like to take my granddaughter to see the Coastal Sound Youth Choir, as she is in a choir and would enjoy it.
March 5, 2009 at 10:42 pm
This is a great thing you are doing!
I would love to attend the Vocomotion show.
My family is very musical and this can be an opportunity to open the kids’ ears…
Thank you for doing it.
March 6, 2009 at 10:40 am
Don Foran Says:
March 6, 2009 at 10:35 am
It was crawlin’ and it stunk,
But of all the drinks I’ve drunk,
I’m gratefullest to one from Gunga Din.
March 6, 2009 at 10:42 am
LOL Don…was that you over at Miss 604 earlier this am? So which show do you want to be in the running for at Water’s Edge?
March 6, 2009 at 2:59 pm
I’m thinking claro que si! to Bobby Carcasses and AFROJAZZ from Cuba. Por favor, chiquita…
March 6, 2009 at 5:41 pm
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March 6, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Just happy to be here Jules!
Ya, Miss 604 passed me over for the Wine gala contest –
(Stoppard right there-
not “The Real Thing” ?!?)
but that’s her loss…
I’m just glad to re-connect w/ U &
I will follow your Tweets from hereon in-
I got a Row 7 seat behind the boyz’ bench vs the Sharks tomorrow nite…!
Keep up the Gunga Din!