Picks of the week - May 4, 2012

 

 
 
 
 
What can you tell about a man from the size of his saxophone? We don’t know the answer to that age old question... We’re just putting it out there. Acclaimed experimental bass saxophonist Colin Stetson hauls his mighty woodwind to Western Front as part of his Alone Together tour with Arcade Fire violinist Sarah Neufeld and Devendra Banhart pianist Gregory Rogove May 5 and 6. For more information and tickets, go to front.bc.ca/newmusic.
 

What can you tell about a man from the size of his saxophone? We don’t know the answer to that age old question... We’re just putting it out there. Acclaimed experimental bass saxophonist Colin Stetson hauls his mighty woodwind to Western Front as part of his Alone Together tour with Arcade Fire violinist Sarah Neufeld and Devendra Banhart pianist Gregory Rogove May 5 and 6. For more information and tickets, go to front.bc.ca/newmusic.

Photograph by: submitted , for Vancouver Courier

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What can you tell about a man from the size of his saxophone? We don’t know the answer to that age old question... We’re just putting it out there. Acclaimed experimental bass saxophonist Colin Stetson hauls his mighty woodwind to Western Front as part of his Alone Together tour with Arcade Fire violinist Sarah Neufeld and Devendra Banhart pianist Gregory Rogove May 5 and 6. For more information and tickets, go to front.bc.ca/newmusic.
 

What can you tell about a man from the size of his saxophone? We don’t know the answer to that age old question... We’re just putting it out there. Acclaimed experimental bass saxophonist Colin Stetson hauls his mighty woodwind to Western Front as part of his Alone Together tour with Arcade Fire violinist Sarah Neufeld and Devendra Banhart pianist Gregory Rogove May 5 and 6. For more information and tickets, go to front.bc.ca/newmusic.

Photograph by: submitted , for Vancouver Courier

 
What can you tell about a man from the size of his saxophone? We don’t know the answer to that age old question... We’re just putting it out there. Acclaimed experimental bass saxophonist Colin Stetson hauls his mighty woodwind to Western Front as part of his Alone Together tour with Arcade Fire violinist Sarah Neufeld and Devendra Banhart pianist Gregory Rogove May 5 and 6. For more information and tickets, go to front.bc.ca/newmusic.
Whether it’s movies about burqas, the elderly, vinyl records, revolutions, bears, Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei, modernist architecture or LSD, there’s something for just about everyone at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival. Go on, give your chin a stroke. With 76 screenings, five different venues and six world premieres, the sprawling event runs May 4 to 13. For a full schedule, movie listings and ticket info, go to doxafestival.ca.
With a blog-friendly backstory somewhere between Daniel Johnston and Charles Bradley, Willis Earl Beal apparently lives in his grandmother’s basement, wrote the songs for his lo-fi soul album Acousmatic Sorcery while working as a hotel night porter and was “discovered” through his hand-drawn flyers he distributed throughout Chicago that said “Give me a call, I’ll sing you a song.” (You can still call: 773-295-2135). See who the Globe and Mail calls “the hip crowd’s new diamond in the rough” when Beal plays the Biltmore May 5, 8 p.m. Tickets at Zulu, Red Cat or livenation.com.
For those of you who can’t get enough musical theatre interpretations of Journey, Styx, Foreigner and Whitesnake or can’t wait until the motion picture starring Tom Cruise comes out, Rock of Ages brings its 1980s tale of small town girls and big city dreamers giving their all on L.A.’s Sunset Strip to the Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts. The Jack Daniels-soaked trip down memory lane runs May 8 to 13. Tickets at ticketmaster.ca or by calling 1-855-985-5000.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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