The hats are back - and the guy in the tie
Presenting: Ken Lavigne, Tenor; Calvin Dyck, Violin
With the Abbotsford Youth Orchestra
Members of the Vancouver Island Symphony
Sarah M. Wood, Piano
and the Skipping Sensations
Saturday, August 17, 6 p.m.
Maffeo Sutton Park, Nanaimo
A FREE Family Live Musical Event - RAIN OR SHINE!!!
It's
a top talent line-up for Summertime Pops by the Sea on Saturday, August 17
at 6 p.m. (rain or shine) in Maffeo Sutton Park. Vancouver Island residents and
visitors will be treated to an exciting and entertaining
full-surround-sound in a LIVE orchestral event with special guests - and it's
FREE!
Calvin
Dyck - is well known to Nanaimo and Island audiences for his
virtuosic violin playing as a soloist, as a member of outstanding musical
productions and as the well-loved concertmaster of the Vancouver Island
Symphony. Calvin wears many hats - musician, teacher, producer, director and
adjudicator, not to mention his community work and parenting. For Summertime
Pops by the Sea Calvin will be performing Vivaldi's Four Seasons
'Summer', Yankee Doodle Variations and Hot Canary. And yes, he'll be
wearing a hat or two. (www.calvindyck.com)
Ken
Lavigne - the guy in the tie - is Vancouver Island's very popular
contemporary classical tenor. With a voice described as liquid gold, Ken has
performed at Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops Orchestra, with opera
companies and symphony orchestras across Canada and the US and toured with his
own musicians. Ken will not only wrap the audience with his beautiful voice, as
he sings O Sole Mio, Stand by Me, Hallelujah, You Raise Me Up, I'm a Rover and
his ever moving Danny Boy, he will entertain with his delightful banter and
amusing stories. (www.kenlavigne.com)
Sarah
M. Wood - is a pianist-composer with a bent and pre-occupation for
coastal waters and a musical style that ranges from classical to jazz,
theatrical and sacred. Her works have been described as compositions with 'a
hint of Broadway meeting Pacific-Northwest ocean and rainforest'. Happy to be
back living in Nanaimo and thrilled to be part of Summertime Pops by the Sea,
Sarah will be tickling the ivories for Sailing from Schooner Cove, an imaginary
musical sailing odyssey she composed in 2009 after a visit to the waterfront in
Nanoose. (www.myspace.com/sarahmariewood)
The
Skipping Sensations - is a group of dedicated rope jumpers from
Abbotsford who take the sport to new heights. These provincial and national
champions have performed across BC and Canada and this year in London, England.
In this return visit to Nanaimo they will amaze the audience with their unique
and energetic skipping precision while the orchestra plays the famous Can Can.
(www.skippingsensations.blogspot.com)
The
Abbotsford Youth Orchestra - was formed 13 years ago to meet a
growing need for young string players to have a social and musical group
experience at the highest level. The orchestra has grown to include junior and
senior levels, has been on several tours and performed hundreds of concerts -
choreographed! For Summertime Pops by the Sea they will be joined by Pippa
Williams (VIS principal oboe), Marjorie Cullerne (VIS second violin), Samuel
Tsui (VIS second violin) and Ernie Kassian (VIS viola) for the swashbuckling
theme of Pirates of the Caribbean, toe-tapping Texas Swing and Maple Sugar Rag,
the rapturous Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, popular Palladio Theme,
and much more. www.calvindyck.com/ayo.html
So come on down by the sea - for fantastic LIVE
music, family entertainment - and surprise draws!
Families, friends, all ages are invited to bring along
lawn chairs, blankets and picnics to Maffeo Sutton Park; and, consider
car-pooling and transit to avoid traffic congestion (parking at Maffeo Sutton is
limited). We expect the sun to be shining! That's Saturday, August 17, at 6 p.m.
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