Picks of the week - August 15, 2012

 

 
 
 
 
Originally trained as an opera singer, vocalist Patricia O’Callaghan brings her smoky cabaret stylings to MusicFest Vancouver, where she’ll team up with acclaimed piano troupe the Gryphon Trio for an evening dubbed Broken Hearts & Madmen, Aug. 16, 8 p.m. at the Orpheum Annex. The sophisticated program includes songs by Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen, Lhasa de Sela, Laurie Anderson, Elvis Costello, Astor Piazzolla and others. For more information, go to musicfestvancouver.ca.
 

Originally trained as an opera singer, vocalist Patricia O’Callaghan brings her smoky cabaret stylings to MusicFest Vancouver, where she’ll team up with acclaimed piano troupe the Gryphon Trio for an evening dubbed Broken Hearts & Madmen, Aug. 16, 8 p.m. at the Orpheum Annex. The sophisticated program includes songs by Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen, Lhasa de Sela, Laurie Anderson, Elvis Costello, Astor Piazzolla and others. For more information, go to musicfestvancouver.ca.

Photograph by: submitted , for the Vancouver Courier

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Originally trained as an opera singer, vocalist Patricia O’Callaghan brings her smoky cabaret stylings to MusicFest Vancouver, where she’ll team up with acclaimed piano troupe the Gryphon Trio for an evening dubbed Broken Hearts & Madmen, Aug. 16, 8 p.m. at the Orpheum Annex. The sophisticated program includes songs by Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen, Lhasa de Sela, Laurie Anderson, Elvis Costello, Astor Piazzolla and others. For more information, go to musicfestvancouver.ca.
 

Originally trained as an opera singer, vocalist Patricia O’Callaghan brings her smoky cabaret stylings to MusicFest Vancouver, where she’ll team up with acclaimed piano troupe the Gryphon Trio for an evening dubbed Broken Hearts & Madmen, Aug. 16, 8 p.m. at the Orpheum Annex. The sophisticated program includes songs by Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen, Lhasa de Sela, Laurie Anderson, Elvis Costello, Astor Piazzolla and others. For more information, go to musicfestvancouver.ca.

Photograph by: submitted , for the Vancouver Courier

 
Originally trained as an opera singer, vocalist Patricia O’Callaghan brings her smoky cabaret stylings to MusicFest Vancouver, where she’ll team up with acclaimed piano troupe the Gryphon Trio for an evening dubbed Broken Hearts & Madmen, Aug. 16, 8 p.m. at the Orpheum Annex. The sophisticated program includes songs by Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen, Lhasa de Sela, Laurie Anderson, Elvis Costello, Astor Piazzolla and others. For more information, go to musicfestvancouver.ca.
Born in 1980 in the nomadic Tuareg encampment of Tidene, Niger-based guitarist Bombino brings his sand-blasted blues licks and trance-like desert rhythms to the Rio Theatre Aug. 16, 8:30 p.m. in support of his latest album Agadez. Tickets at Zulu, Red Cat, Highlife Records and nightheat.ca.
Just when you thought it was safe to go into the water, Pacific Cinematheque celebrates 100 years of Universal Pictures, the oldest continuously operating film producer and distributor in the U.S. Starting Aug. 16 and continuing into September, the retrospective of select films include Lewis Milestone’s 1930 adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front; a horror triple bill of Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931) and The Mummy (1932); Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds; Steven Spielberg’s 1975 summer blockbuster Jaws; and Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, to name a few. For more information and show times, go to cinematheque.bc.ca.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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