Sessions etc in Vancouver

Subject: Sessions etc in Vancouver
From: Trevor Thomas
Date: 08 May 07 - 12:02 PM

Hello there,

My lovely girlfriend is going to Vancouver in about three weeks for a physiotherapy conference, and I'm going to tag along. We've also booked a few days off work after the conference to do some sightseeing etc. We've never been before and are really looking forward to it.

I'd very much like to go to a few sessions while I'm there, if possible.

So can anyone tell me what sessions there are in Vancouver? We'll be there about a week.

Subject: RE: Sessions etc in Vancouver
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 08 May 07 - 02:01 PM

Check out this site; Time Readman is Mr Folk Music in Vancouver.

Subject: RE: Sessions etc in Vancouver
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 08 May 07 - 02:02 PM

I meant, of course, TIM Readman. ;o)

Subject: RE: Sessions etc in Vancouver
From: GUEST,Puck
Date: 08 May 07 - 02:17 PM

Can't reccommend any sessions but have been lucky enough to go to Vancouver once myself, and just wanted to say I'm jealous as hell of you going there. It was a wonderful place and I hope you have a great great time.

P

Subject: RE: Sessions etc in Vancouver
From: Jim Lad
Date: 08 May 07 - 02:44 PM

The Celtic Connection would be your best resource for sessions.

Subject: RE: Sessions etc in Vancouver
From: Trevor Thomas
Date: 09 May 07 - 10:48 AM

Thanks for these folks. I'll certainly investigate them. Most kind of you.

If there's anyone out there who lives in Vancouver and who's got anything to add about their local music scene, and can suggest anything else we might want to check out, then it'd be great to hear from you.

I found out that there's a ukulele session in Vancouver, which sounds like great fun, but it's once a month and sadly not on the week we're there.

Subject: RE: Sessions etc in Vancouver
From: Charley Noble
Date: 09 May 07 - 12:48 PM

Trevor-

There should be a lot going on in Vancouver. Try exploring this link to the Vancouver Folk Music Society: Click here for a good time!

And be sure to report back on your adventures!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Sessions etc in Vancouver
From: stallion
Date: 09 May 07 - 01:03 PM

See you can find "The Crawl", the song is about a pub crawl in Vancouver and od a cd of "Spirit of the West" band, I heard they do "conducted" pub crawls around the pubs in the song!

Subject: RE: Sessions etc in Vancouver
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 09 May 07 - 07:07 PM

"From the Troller to the Raven, with all stops in between", as I remember it. This forty kilometre odyssey took place not in Vancouver, which lies on the south shore of Burrard Inlet, but rather in West Vancouver and North Vancouver, which are on the North Shore, a region now famous for its hard-core mountain-biking scene. One's chalk, the other, cheese, and West Vancouver even more so. To BCers anyway. The Troller was one of the first brew pubs in the province, serving a delicious murky brew with the odd hop flake floating in it. If you don't think that sounds yummy, you haven't had the opportunity to compare it with ordinary Canadian draft, about which the best that can be said is that at least it's twice as good as that stuff they call beer in the States.

Subject: RE: Sessions etc in Vancouver
From: Jim Lad
Date: 09 May 07 - 07:14 PM

Ordinary Canadian draft? Head on up to Prince George and see what the Nechako Brewery has to offer. Not for the faint hearted, spandex clad, late' sipping mountain bike crowd though. The real BC is well beyond Hope.

Subject: RE: Sessions etc in Vancouver
From: Trevor Thomas
Date: 10 May 07 - 07:29 AM

Excellent stuff!

Thanks very much for this valuable information. I've decided I'll have to try as many Canadian draughts as I can, although a 40 kilometre pub crawl might be beyond my powers!

Charley Noble - thanks for the link, and I promise I'll report on my adventures.

Subject: RE: Sessions etc in Vancouver
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 10 May 07 - 08:03 AM

Good plan, Trev. Many good regional beers available nowadays, though all flavoured with Cascade hops.
Jim, the North Shore mountain-bikers to which I allude are of the death-or-glory, armour-wearing, Canadiano-swilling breed.

Subject: RE: Sessions etc in Vancouver
From: Charley Noble
Date: 10 May 07 - 08:13 AM

Stallion-

And I'd been assuming that "The Crawl" was indigenous to Yorkshire. I wonder why?

It's a great song and Two Black Sheep and a Stallion do it full justice.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Sessions etc in Vancouver
From: stallion
Date: 10 May 07 - 08:28 AM

When Ron was in Vancouver he went on "The Crawl" with a mad Russian who's name escapes me, he had managed all the pubs bar one and called me at 5am UK time, he was "elevated" by alcohol and I was still in a half slumber, he asked me if I knew how to get to it. Well as you know Folk music gets twisted in time and I had found "The Park Royal Hotel" a bit of a tongue twister at the pace we sing the song so I had changed it to "The Mizzen Head", which many may know is a pub in Dublin. He then asked if it was within walking distance or would they need a cab, "A boat or a plane mate, it's in Dublin!" was my reply, as far as I know he did make it to the Park Royal and, as far as I can make out, "The Crawl" is a bus tour now!
cheers
Peter

Subject: RE: Sessions etc in Vancouver
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 10 May 07 - 09:01 PM

Here's a link to some bluegrass jams in Vancouver. Even if your acoustic music ain't bluegrass, you will probably find some kindred souls and enjoyable music here.

Subject: RE: Sessions etc in Vancouver
From: Trevor Thomas
Date: 11 May 07 - 10:12 AM

Thanks very much Bob - I do play a little bluegrass, as it happens! (although it's not so plentiful here in the UK)And I play with a singer who's also a postman! So obviously this is some sort of omen! I'll definitely check this out.

I like pretty much any kind of music, so long as it's fun to play. I'll be taking a guitar and mandolin, so I should be OK for the bluegrass.

I've never even been to Canada, never mind Vancouver, and I'm really excited about it.

Subject: RE: Sessions etc in Vancouver
From: Jim Lad
Date: 11 May 07 - 10:22 AM

Being in Vancouver is nothing like being in Canada.
Enjoy Yourself!
Good Morning All.
from the Sunny Highlands on Vancouver Island!
Jim

Subject: RE: Sessions etc in Vancouver
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 11 May 07 - 11:35 AM

See herehttp://www.thesession.org/sessions/display/877


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