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2027-06-25 08:00 - 17:00, 2027-06-18 08:00 - 17:00, 2027-06-11 08:00 - 17:00, 2027-06-04 08:00 - 17:00, 2027-05-28 08:00 - 17:00, 2027-05-21 08:00 - 17:00, 2027-05-14 08:00 - 17:00, 2027-05-07 08:00 - 17:00 UTC and 18 more dates | Bartier Bros. Winery, 4821 Ryegrass Road British Columbia Oliver V0H 1T1 Canada, Oliver, British Columbia, V0H 1T1, Canada
Every Friday, 3–5 PM

Join us on the Bartier Bros. patio for a relaxed and engaging afternoon with winemaker Michael Bartier and/or vineyard manager Andrew Moon. Sip wine, ask questions, and learn about our winemaking and vineyard practices in a casual, friendly setting. Reservations are recommended if you’d like to enjoy a tasting during your visit, but they’re not required.

Sink Or Swim
2027-05-13 19:30 - 21:00 | Venables Theatre, Oliver, British Columbia, V0H 1T0, Canada
About the Performance

The Shantyman of GREAT BIG SEA – Live in Concert!

This spring, Séan McCann — The Shantyman — returns with a new set of original songs, alongside the trusted favourites audiences know and love, for anyone feeling overwhelmed by the moment we’re living in. Between constant noise, relentless headlines, and the pressure to keep moving without pause, Sink or Swim asks a simple but vital question: how do we stay afloat when the world feels louder, faster and heavier by the day. Armed with his guitar, and an unwavering commitment to truth, Séan invites audiences into a shared space of reflection, resilience, and release — where singing isn’t optional, it’s essential. These are songs about the undertow — and what we do to resist it. About finding your breath when everything feels urgent. About choosing presence over panic, connection over isolation, and humanity over noise.

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Séan McCann is a singer, songwriter, and storyteller best known as a founding member of the iconic Canadian band Great Big Sea. Over the past decade, his solo work has carved out a powerful and deeply personal path — one rooted in honesty, recovery, community, and the belief that music is meant to be shared with, not performed for audiences.

His live shows blend original material with beloved favourites, inviting audiences to sing along, reflect, and reconnect with themselves and with one another. In his latest tour, Sink or Swim — Singing Through the Noise, McCann sings brave new songs alongside trusted classics to speak directly to the heaviness of our times. It’s a show about staying afloat in an increasingly noisy world, finding breath when everything feels urgent, and remembering that collective singing is both grounding and healing. Whether in churches, theatres, or community halls, Séan McCann’s performances are less about spectacle and more about presence — creating spaces where people feel seen, heard, and a little less alone.

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Come as you are. Leave a little lighter. The choice is yours: Sink or Swim.

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TICKETS:Adults: $45Seniors & Students: $40

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Virginia Sparvier-Wells Trio
2027-04-02 19:30 - 21:30 | Venables Theatre, Oliver, British Columbia, V0H 1T0, Canada
About the Performance

Vee is an Alberta-based Cree, multi-disciplinary artist form Cowessess FN (Sk). She interweaves land, Indigenous identity, history, and language throughout her dance and music creation/performance practice. A classically trained flutist, she holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Calgary and an MFA in Contemporary Arts from Simon Fraser University. Her work fuses together traditional language and dance with her own contemporary experiences as an Indigenous woman and Two-Spirit person. Her most recent album Prairie Dusk evokes the sounds and stories of the prairies and includes commissioned work as well as new originals. This album won YYC Music Classical Album of the Year 2024 and Global music awards 2024. This is a follow-up album to her award winning first Indigenous classical album Incandescent Tales (2021). A 2022 and 2023 Western Canadian Music Awards Nominee, and 2025 Juno Nomination (Classical Large Ensemble album) her musical, composition, and soundscape work focuses on land-based creation and ideas of connection, disconnection, and home. “Too Good; That MAY Be”, animmersive soundscape performance was shown at the Urban Shaman Gallery in Winnipeg as part of “The 60’s Scoop; A Place Between” in 2017. Her compositions include Muskwa’s Mountain Home (2021), Inni (2018) and soundscapes including beguiling (the)the land (2020). Jessica currently resides in Cochrane, Alberta, where she works for the City of Calgary as Curator of Indigenous Art. She is also co-founder and co-director Wild Mint Arts,an Indigenous arts company and is a Laureate of the Hnatyshyn Foundation REVEALIndigenous Art Awards (2017).

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Connor Chee is a Diné (Navajo) composer and pianist known for blending Western classical music with the rich cultural heritage of the Navajo people. His compositions often draw inspiration from traditional Navajo stories and beliefs, creating a powerful and evocative sound that speaks to both his heritage and his classical training. Connor is dedicated to music education and cultural preservation, inspiring the next generation of musicians. Chee made his Carnegie Hall debut at the age of 12 after winning a gold medal in the World Piano Competition and is a graduate of both the Eastman School of Music and the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. Chee’s work has earned him national acclaim, including performances on NPR’s Performance Today and a commission from Your Classical MPR for his tribute to the Navajo Code Talkers, Unbroken. Chee has released five studio albums, and a popular collection of Music Videos available on YouTube. His latest album, Across the Desert: The Long Walk Home, honors the resilience of the Navajo people and the journey back to their ancestral lands.

Holly Bhattacharya was born in Durham, U.K. to two musician parents and she began leaning the violin at the age of four. She was a pupil at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester and later studied at the Royal Northern College of Music under the tutelage of Richard Deakin, Wen Zhou Li and Christopher Rowland (chamber music). Her collegequartet performed regularly throughout the U.K. and won the Hirsch Prize for Chamber Music in 2005. She toured Europe and Kasakhstan as a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra, with whom she played for four years. Since graduating from college, Holly has enjoyed a varied career, spanning orchestral, chamber, theatre and commercial music as well as teaching, coaching and invigilating for music competitions. She has been a regular player with many of the UK’s top orchestras including the London Philharmonic and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Holly also performed as part of the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival (Maine, USA) and MusicaRiva Festival (Lake Garda, Italy) Theatre work has included almost eight years of performances with The Phantom of the Opera in London’s West End, (U.K.) Quadraphenia on tour, Thursford Christmas Spectacular and The Independent Opera Co. (Old Vic Theatre, London) She also worked regularly at Glyndebourne Theatre and took part in several education projects and workshops. Pop work has seen Holly record and perform with the likes of Take That, Jarvis Cocker, Gorillaz, Mike Oldfield, Neneh Cherry, De La Soul, Florence and the Machine and Kylie Minogue. Chambermusic has taken Holly to the International Chamber Festival of Music in Alcala, (Spain) and all around the Mediterranean and Norwegian Fjords as a guest entertainer for SAGA cruises. She has led workshops at Lancing College and BHASVIC, Brighton, as well as regular concerts with Ensemble Reza around the South of England. Holly taught violin for four years at Brighton College (UK Independent School of the Decade) and was a judge for the musiccompetitions at Hurstpierpoint College, Worth School and St. John’s, Leatherhead. Holly is enjoying making Canada her new home and already has a busy class of violin and piano students. She loves performing and is looking forward to more concerts and collaborations in the future.

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Part of the South Okanagan Concert SeriesFriday October 16 – Collage TradSunday November 15 – All the MadmenThursday January 21 – Aurora Piano TrioFriday April 2 – Virginia Sparvier-Wells Trio

TICKETS:Individual Event – $352-3 Events – $29.50 each4 Events – $27 eachStudents – $5

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Luminarium
2027-01-22 18:30 | Venables Theatre, Oliver, British Columbia, V0H 1T0, Canada
About the PerformanceThe world didn’t end in a bang—but in a slow, smoggy sigh. Centuries of pollution have left the planet scarred, and humanity now survives in scattered pockets, clinging to the remains of a livable environment. Enter two workers from the Luminarium Revitalization Company: suit-clad specialists with a mission to breathe life back into the world, one dead facility at a time. Their latest assignment is a long-forgotten factory scheduled for retrofit. The task? Rip out outdated systems and install cutting-edge clean tech. Simple. Efficient. By the book. But the job doesn’t go as planned. As the workers settle in, things start to glitch—and so do they. A game here. A challenge there. Before long, they’re goofing off and rediscovering the joy of simply playing. And just when they improvise a new biotech solution catastrophe strikes… everything crashes. The lights go out. The mission fails. Silence.Then—an unexpected glow. A light in the dark has been there all along. With curiosity (and a few more experiments), the workers make an astonishing discovery. One that may hold the key to a new future.Luminarium is a wordless, visually captivating show that fuses juggling, physical comedy, and object manipulation into a hopeful solarpunk fable. Powered by laughter, teamwork, and the spark of rediscovery, it’s a playful reminder that the future might just be saved—not by brute force or better machines, but by imagination, care, and finding a bit of balance

Aurora Piano Trio
2027-01-21 19:30 - 22:00 | Venables Theatre, Oliver, British Columbia, V0H 1T0, Canada
About the Performance

The Aurora Piano Trio has received praise for their passion, exuberance, and lyricism as well as sensational performances. Violinist Yuel Yawney and cellist Sungyong Lim, members of the famed Borealis String Quartet, joined together with the acclaimed pianist, Libby Yu to form the Aurora Piano Trio. Each of the members of the Trio has performed around the world and bring their extensive chamber music experience together to create an ensemble of the highest calibre.

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Founded in 2019 and mentored by the great Canadian impresario, George Zukerman, the Trio has garnered much critical acclaim. Debuting for the Whistler Chamber Music Society in the Trio’s first season as part of a Western Canadian tour, the remaining engagements were cancelled due to COVID. In 2021, the Trio began rebooking engagements and that September was the season opening concert to a sold-out audience for the Cafe Classico Series at the Langley Community Music School. Since then, the Trio has had numerous performances around BC, from the Music by the Sea Festival in Victoria to standing ovations in Vancouver at the Orpheum ANNEX and the Centre Stage at Surrey City Hall. More recently, the Aurora toured Vancouver Island performing in Port Alberni, Hornby and Denman Islands, as well as Qualicum Beach and Tofino and later presenting concerts in Eastern BC. Due to many audience requests, the Aurora was invited back to perform at the Langley Community Music School for the Rose Gellert Hall Series. The Trio has also performed and taught at the recently inaugurated Cascade Peaks ChamberFest alongside artists from the Gryphon Trio, New Orford and Borealis String Quartets. Among other highlights of this season was a thrilling performance of the Beethoven Triple Concerto with the Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra. With bookings into 2025, the Aurora Piano Trio continues to enthral audiences wherever they perform.

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Part of the South Okanagan Concert Series

Friday October 16 – Collage TradSunday November 15 – All the MadmenThursday January 21 – Aurora Piano TrioFriday April 2 – Virginia Sparvier-Wells Trio

TICKETS:

Individual Event – $352-3 Events – $29.50 eachStudents – $5

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