Author: SillyGilly
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Concert review: NOCCA season ends in a melding of cultures
Below is a review of the fabulous final concert of NOCCA’s 2015/16 season. Don’t forget you can now reserve your seats and subscribe to the upcoming 2016/17 season “A Grand Year to Hear” at ticketseller.ca Review published on April 29th, 2016 by Christine Pilgrim – Vernon Morning Star There aren’t enough superlatives in English to…
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Kokopelli & The University Of Pretoria Youth Choirs
Kokopelli & The University Of Pretoria Youth Choirs Monday April 25, 2016 7:00 pm BUY TICKETS From two countries, two choirs with over 100 youthful voices interweave, creating musical magic. Award winning Kokopelli Youth Choir from Edmonton, Alberta plus internationally acclaimed University of Pretoria Youth Choir (UPYC) from South Africa are coming to Vernon to…
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Concert Review: Duo is on a first-name basis with its audience
by Christine Pilgrim – Vernon Morning Star The North Okanagan Community Concert audience was treated to an evening of unadulterated excellence by the Wolak Donnelly Duo Sunday. The two musical showmen had us eating from their hands, from Kornel Wolak’s first explosion on to the stage, with his clarinet slithering through the opening notes of…
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Wolak-Donnelly Duo – Sunday March 20, 2016
Wolak-Donnelly Duo – Piano & Clarinet Sunday March 20, 2016 7:30 pm BUY TICKETS Armed with a clarinet, a piano and a mischievous sense of humour, Polish born Kornel Wolak and Canadian Chris Donnelly, delightfully weave jazz into the classics. Playing favourites from Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto to Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, to Oscar Peterson’s Hymn…
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Concert Review: Steinway’s last stand
by Christine Pilgrim – Vernon Morning Star Sunday afternoon on February 21st, 2016 saw the swan song of the North Okanagan Community Concert Association’s 1887 Steinway piano. It was grand. NOCCA president Paul Maynes announced that all the keys on the association’s virtual piano, raising funds toward the cost of the association’s replacement Steinway, had…
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Sergei Saratovsky – Sunday February 21, 2016
Sergei Saratovsky – Piano Sunday February 21, 2016 2:00 pm BUY TICKETS Sergei has been here before. In 2013, when another artist became ill, he stepped in and totally wowed the audience! His enthusiastic reception was not surprising. The Russian-Canadian pianist has performed before the leaders of both his native and new lands. He is…
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Audience impressed with NOYSE
Review by the Vernon Morning Star The North Okanagan Youth Showcase of Excellence (NOYSE) was “absolutely phenomenal,” according to Gillian Thompson, one of the more than 300 audience members who attended the show Sunday at the Vernon Performing Arts Centre. “The range of talent took my breath away,” added audience member Marie Morris. “I loved it.…
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NOCCA Youth Showcase – Sunday Jan 31, 2016
NOCCA Youth Showcase Sunday January 31, 2016 2:00 pm BUY TICKETS NOCCA is excited to support North Okanagan’s incredible young talent with our inaugural North Okanagan Youth Showcase of Excellence (NOYSE) concert. Thirteen young performing artists from Lake Country to Salmon Arm auditioned in November 2015 to participate in this NOYSE concert, and their levels…
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Christine Tassan et les Imposteures – Sunday November 1, 2015
Christine Tassan et les Imposteures Sunday November 1, 2015 7:30 pm BUY TICKETS The rollicking rhythms of gypsy jazz are back! Four harmonious voices are an extra bonus! In a genre usually dominated by men, Christine Tassan et les Imposteures are re-inventing and rejuvenating this timeless form of music. The friends playing two guitars, violin…
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Concert Review: Borealis Opens Concert Series With Flair
Review by Christine Pilgrim – Vernon Morning Star Borealis String Quartet has played prestigious venues in New York, Rome, Beijing and Toronto, but it chose Vernon’s Performing Arts Centre to premiere the work specifically written for it by Coldstream’s Imant Raminsh, at the North Okanagan Community Concert Association (NOCCA) gala opening of its 2015/16 season…
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