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Four concerts, four styles of music in Live at Studio 64
Live at Studio 64
By Mike Redfern
The Live at Studio 64 spring 2017 concert series brings an eclectic quartet of musical performances to Kimberley.
Kicking of the four-concert series is Vancouver’s award-winning acoustic finger-style guitarist, Don Alder, bringing his guitar vocals to Studio 64 on Saturday, February 11. Alder (pictured above) has an international reputation, partly due to his expertise as a guitarist and on the harp guitar in particular, partly due to his work in support of disabled athletes following his participation in his friend Rick Hansen’s Man in Motion world tour. His fingers will be flying at Studio 64 on this stop in his ‘Armed & Dangerous’ CD tour.
A month later, on Saturday, March 18, a group of a different kind will bring music, laughs, and a silent movie to the stage and screen of the Centre 64 theatre when the Silver Screen Scoundrels come to town. This duo features Brendan Isaac, winner of the 2014 Maple Leaf Blues award as best acoustic blues performer in Canada, and upright bass player Keith Picot, who won the Maple Leaf Blues award as best bass player in Canada in 2011.
From blues and silent film, the music changes to Celtic reels, flamenco, Gypsy jazz, Arabic, Cuban, and South Asian rhythms when the Sultans of String return to Kimberley on Wednesday, April 5, to perform in the Centre 64 theatre.
This vibrant world music band appeared in Kimberley several years ago, performing school and public concerts to great acclaim. The Sultans have been winning awards since 2007 including the 2016 Canadian Folk Music Award for World Group of the Year for their latest CD album, Subcontinental Drift, on which sitar master, Anwar Khurshid, is a special guest. Khurshid will appear with bandleader and violinist Chris McKhool and the rest of the group when they perform at Centre 64 on April 5.
The Live at Studio 64 spring 2017 concert series concludes in Studio 64 on Saturday, May 13, with a rockin’ rhythm & blues group, the Jason Buie Band, who will probably be the first band to grace the new stage in Studio 64, on order as I write.
For the past 15 years guitarist, singer/songwriter Jason Buie has toured Canada, Europe, the USA and Japan, performing with such blues greats as Buddy Guy, Taj Mahal, Mick Taylor, Jeff Healey, John Mayall, and The Powder Blues Band. His third CD will be released this spring. It should be a great dance party to finish the series.
All concerts start at 8 p.m. and tickets for the whole series or individual concerts are available from Centre 64 (250-427-4919) or at eastkootenaysnapd.com.
