Sat, Oct. 3
12:00 - 1:00
Admission:
$5.00 |
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Noontime Concert Co-presented by
Quality Foods
RICHARD GRAINGER
(From England) (FOLK MUSIC)
One of the great Singing Bards of Northern England, Richard has written some of the biggest industrial and maritime songs to emerge from the revival over the years.
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Richard Grainger is a singer and songwriter steeped in the Northumbrian and English Folk Traditions. As a singer and a songwriter within the tradition his achievements are well documented. Richard has been involved in many art and heritage projects , working with artists, local authorities, galleries, museums and festivals to create new songs and even works for the stage. In between times he still tours and is always hotly pursuing his latest idea or song. He became a member of the legendary 'Teesside Fettlers' in the late '80's . His solo career started in 1984 with the release of his first album by Fellside Records ( FE038) titled 'Herbs on the Heart' - Produced by Paul Adams. The album received great reviews hailing him as 'the new Carthy or Nic Jones'. Today,after nearly twenty-four years in the business, he is acknowledged as one of the finest exponents of folk song in the UK and has earned respect for his tireless efforts to promote folk music. Richard is a guitar player with his own unique approach to accompaniment. With more than a dozen albums to his credit,he is among the UKs most prolific folk song writers. Richards latest CD Album 'Warhorse' released in January 2008 received some great reviews . The album - described by www.folkradio.co.uk as 'a classic' prove's Richards enthusiasm and sheer connection to his music continues to grow stronger. Richard takes his music around the world,touring in the UK, USA, CANADA,NEW ZEALAND, BELGIUM, DENMARK, GERMANY,HOLLAND,ITALY, PORTUGAL & SPAIN. He has created 5 productions for the stage,written some British folk 'classics', recorded more than 12 CD's, and appeared on TV and radio. He's got a sense of humour too - widely acknowledged for his introductions which turn into fascinating and often hilarious stories in their own right. Richard is touring constantly from his base on the North York Moors in Northern England and plans to continue performing before a wider audience. If he's down your way- don't miss him he's one of the strongest 'folk-roots' artists around. 'A folk singer in the truest sense' Hoy at Anchor,Leigh on Sea,Essex 'One of the great northern bards'- Keith Kendrick
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Sat, Oct. 3
2:00 - 3:30
Admission:
$10.00 |
 
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CREATIVE MOVEMENT WORKSHOP with Lori Hamar & Percussionist Kelby MacNayr
Artful exercise and sheer fun for families and everyone from age 5 to 105!
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Lori Hamar began dance training in Edmonton, Alberta and continued with professional training at LADDMI in Montreal, Dancers Studio West in Calgary, MainDance in Vancouver and various summer programs in the U.S. She quickly discovered her drive to create as well as perform and has honed this craft by co-founding three different companies to date: Motivity Modern Dance in Fort MacMurray, AB, Suddenly Dance Theatre, and triPOD dance collective in Victoria, BC.
Lori began teaching preschool children improvisational dance 5 years ago and working in integrated dance three years ago. Lori recently completed her tenure as the Acting Artistic Director for Holly Bright with the Crimson Coast Dance Society. She works as an independent dance artist while continuing the facilitation of children’s improvisation classes.
Lori is eager to continue creating new dance works and contributing to the exquisite art form. She has been supported by the CRD, BC Arts Council, and Canada Council. She works with the Victoria School of Contemporary Dance and is passionate about building healthy foundations that will continue to develop and grow both the dancer and the art form
Kelby MacNayr (drums/percussion): Kelby performs in a wide range of musical styles that includes jazz, classical music, dance accompaniment, and the musical traditions of Brazil, Cuba, and Portugal. Formal studies include the University of Toronto, the Banff Centre for the Arts and the University of Victoria. Kelby has performed with Phil Dwyer, Louise Rose, Ingrid Jensen, Don Thompson, and Hugh Fraser. |
Sat. Oct. 3
4:00 - 5:30
Admission:
$10.00
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MIME and MASKED MOVEMENT WORKSHOP with Yayoi Hirano
All ages…Enter the magical world of this celebrated artist and her exquisite masks.
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Yayoi Hirano |
Clad in austere black, YAYOI’s lithe figure unfurls a ribbon of movement on the small stage to the tune of Bolero: one moment she is hunched in the posture of age, the next rocking a child, shooting a gun, placing invisible flowers around her head with gestures as delicate as lace, as precise as time. Her face registers both history and the ineffable; the audience caught by awe at her lyrical transformations. YAYOI: one of the rare Japanese performers whose talent and creative spirit reach beyond the boundaries of their native land. Her contemporary productions, rooted in mime, dance, mask and drama, showcase a sculpted sense of physicality engaged in recreating traditional and modern narratives.
* YAYOI graduated from Toho Gakuen College of Performing Arts, co-founding the Mime Theatre Pierrot-kan in 1975 to popularize pantomime in Japan through modern works.
* YAYOI’s prolific career as a solo performer began in 1985. Her early one-woman shows included “A Woman”(1985) and “YAYOI DOJOJIi”(1988). In 1989, she became the first mime artist ever to receive the Ministry of Education Fellowship, and spent a year collaborating with artists in Germany and Canada.
*In 1990, she founded YAYOI Theatre Movement. Her extensive international performance credits include festivals in Italy, Germany, Spain, Holland, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Bulgaria, Poland, South Korea and Singapore as well as five North American tours. She has performed in 13 countries and 28 cities.
* YAYOI’s further shows include programs with prominent international artists. She has worked with Canadian photographer, Courtny Milne in “The Sacred Earth”(1995), with Japanese Jazz musician Terumasa Hino in “UZUME”(1996), with Artistic Director Halina Witek of the Theatre Het Klein from Holland in “BLAUBAAD”(1997) and “Divine Commedia”(1998), with the Fuchu-City Orchestra in “Borelo”(1997), and with Chinese opera singer Jin Youg Zie in “Carmen”(2000). In July and August 2001, Yayoi presented “Snow's daughter” with the leading Bulgarian mime artist Nicky Sotirov in Japan and Bulgaria. For this work Yayoi was awarded the Annual Prize of Bulgarian Actors for Experimental and Avant-garde Performance Art.
*YAYOI first visited Vancouver to perform at the Japanese Pavilion during Expo’86. Since then, she has returned to participate in numerous summer Fringe Festivals. In August 2001 she and Tokyo dance troop “RAKUDO” presented “A Human Nature” to three western Canadian Fringe audiences. In summer 2002 she brought a company of nine from Tokyo to perform the original work “Wind’s Traveler” at Fringe Festivals in Winnipeg, Swift Current, Saskatoon and Edmonton. Since becoming a permanent resident of Vancouver in the fall of 2002, YAYOI has continued to stun audiences with her performances and mask carvings, infusing an ancient art with the stark and supple imagination of the millennium. |
| YAYOI's critics say |
“A beautiful, evocative piece...”(Minnesota Star Tribune)
“A fascinating and successful approach to communication through mime and body language. Her face and body are exquisite in their expressiveness.”(The Gazette Montreal)
“Graceful and unequivocal, an emotionally subtle and visually stunning manner”
(The Edmonton Sun)
“What amazing pleasure dwells in the theatre of Yayoi Hirano!…a glittering jewel of contemporary performance...An extraordinary experience.” (The Edmonton Journal)
“A very gifted Japanese soloist Yayoi Hirano...Her performance was a highly elaborate technical and acting masterpiece” (PRADA Slovakia)
“There are few women solo mime artists in the world. Among them, Yayoi Hirano is one of greatest...”(Chunchon International Mime Festival in South Korea)
“Yayoi will forever dispel the notion that the words “mime” and “artist” cannot be used in the same sentence.” (Banana Magazine Summer 2001)
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Sat, Oct. 3
2:00 - 3:30
Admission:
$15.00 |
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THE SARA MARREIROS QUINTET (PORTUGUESE & BRAZILIAN JAZZ)
Victoria’s Renowned Fado, Bossa Nova and Samba Vocalist
With Daryl Jahnke-guitar, Ron Hadley-piano, Sean Drabitt-bass, Kelby MacNayr-drums
(CLICK HERE for Musician Bios)
“Sara's voice transports us to Portugal... to smoky bars and riversides... She takes us from delight to despair and back again with the music and the emotional scope she brings to her singing.” (Sheryl MacKay, North by Northwest, CBC Radio, Vancouver) |
Sara Marreiros
One of the many great things about living musical traditions is that we constantly get to hear new artists taking them up. Their passion and excitement as they discover more about the tradition and through that process, more of themselves, is a wondrous thing. In this classic way Sara Marrieros is discovering her own voice by merging the music of her roots and the music she came of age with.
Rumours about this remarkable young woman in Victoria singing fado (fate) drifted across the Strait of Georgia to the Big City. Fado is to Portugal what flamenco is to Spain and what the blues are to the American South: songs clearly from the folk and their experiences of life's crueller moments. What begins as poetry and music about loneliness and broken hearts becomes an expression of saudade (the yearning). Its roots go far back in Portugal to when it was the music of the dangerous bohemian underground, and even further back into imperial history. As contact between Portugal and Africa grew, music, as always, was part of the exchange. Now, fadistas (fa-DEESH-taz) are among the best-known artists in the country. It is gorgeous music, brimming with soul and in as many hues and styles as the blues.
Although Sara was born in Victoria, she grew up spending time in her father's village in Portugal. Her mother's love of improvisational music led her to study jazz in high school where she discovered that singing, not flute or saxophone, was her passion. She began performing with Djole, sang jazz in clubs, turned up at local improv nights, and started working in electronica. She learned constantly, pushing her voice and herself to try new things and above all, to keep singing. They weren't all good experiences, but even the bad ones would be useful.
She could always hear the siren song of fado, but it wasn't until her heart had its own cruel experiences with life that she felt ready to sing the music she had heard since she was a girl. Her father helped her find her way into the many layers of meaning that are so much a part of fado and a whole new musical world began to open. She studied the history of the music and traced its roots back to the influences from which different styles evolved. Now her jazz has a little fado in it, and her fado has the grace note of jazz and her love for bossa nova. |
