The Great Candaian LAST WALTZ
2026-11-26 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | Venables Theatre, Oliver, British Columbia, V0H 1T0, Canada
About the Performance

The Great Canadian Last Waltz celebrates the timeless and brilliant music of The Band and their final legendary concert, “The Last Waltz”, while shining a spotlight on the rich tradition of Canadian-made original songs that continue to shape our culture.

2026 marks the 50th Anniversary of The Last Waltz.

This powerful show brings together an all-star lineup of professional touring artists, songwriters, and legendary musicians who proudly call Canada home. Spanning generations and crossing the boundaries of genres, this cast is united by acommon bond- the music itself, the world it brings together, and the unforgettable songs it inspires.

With deep respect and reverence for The Band, their spirit, and the era they embodied, this

homegrown, world-class lineup brings the songs of The Band to life with authenticity, passion, and their own Canadian artistry.

Show Cast: Canadian Juno awards winning blues legend- Jack Semple, Heidi Munro & Scott Patrick (Munro & Patrick- SCMA Group of The Year 2024, 2025), Henry Small (Prism), Julie Masi (Parachute Club), Dave Chobot (The Stampeders), Jerry Cook (Canadian Blues Sax Player of the Year), and an elite group of sought after BC freelance musicians- Justin Glibbery, Neville Bowman, Scott Gamble, Chris Manuel, Mike Schell.

The show has been performed to Sold Out crowds at The Broadway Theatre (Saskatoon, SK), and Darke Hall (Regina, SK). The vision of The Great Canadian Last Waltz is to carry this production across Canada, inviting great artists and musicians from every corner of the country to join the cast and celebrate our shared musical legacy and original Canadian music.

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TICKETS: $63.50

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Backyard Farm Winemaker Dinner
2026-12-12 18:00 - 21:00 | Phantom Creek Estates, 4315 Black Sage Road British Columbia Oliver Canada, Oliver, British Columbia, Canada
Backyard Farm Winemaker Dinner Series – At Phantom Creek EstatesFeaturing Chef Chris Van Hooydonk of Backyard FarmWe are delighted to invite you to our 2026 Backyard Farm Winemaker Dinner Series—a collection of five intimate, four-course dining experiences hosted at Phantom Creek Estates throughout the year.Celebrated for his farm-driven philosophy and refined, seasonal cuisine, Chris Van Hooydonk returns to the estate to create thoughtfully composed menus that showcase local ingredients at their peak. Each dinner is expertly paired with Phantom Creek Estates wines, with selections curated to elevate the dialogue between vineyard and kitchen.Guests will enjoy an immersive evening of food, wine, and storytelling, set within the elegant surroundings of the estate, with insights shared by our winemaking team throughout the experience.Now Open for BookingGuests may reserve any one—or all, of the following Winemaker Dinners in the Backyard Farm Series:March 27, 2026May 9, 2026July 4, 2026October 30, 2026December 12, 2026Event Details (per dinner)🕕 6:00 p.m.🍽 Four-course paired dinner💲 $225 per guest🔞 19+ eventWine Club Preferred PricingWine Club members receive preferred pricing for the member and one guest. To ensure this is applied correctly, please contact Tess at wineclub@phantomcreekestates.com for assistance with your reservation.Dress CodeBusiness casual, or as elevated as you wish—this is your excuse to dress up if you’d like!Seating is limited for each date. We look forward to welcoming you back to the estate throughout the year for this special culinary collaboration.If you or any member of your party have dietary needs, restrictions, or food allergies, please let us know in advance so our culinary team may accommodate where possible. For assistance, contact wineclub@phantomcreekestates.com or concierge@phantomcreekestates.com or call 250.498.8367

Oh Come All Ye Soulful
2026-12-18 19:30 - 21:00 | Venables Theatre, Oliver, British Columbia, V0H 1T0, Canada
About the Performance

Joyful & Soulful Bounce to your Favourite Holiday Classics

Join two award winning powerhouses – vocalist, Dawn Pemberton and bassist/bandleader, Jodi Proznick and an all-star band as they bring a joyful and soulful bounce to your favourite holiday classics.The music includes holiday classics made famous by Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Ella Fitzgerald, John Legend, Donny Hathaway, Otis Redding, Darlene Love, Vince Guaraldi, and more!Join Western Canadian Music Award winners Dawn Pemberton (vocals), Jodi Proznick (bass), and the band for a soulful holiday celebration.

Dawn PembertonVancouver soul dynamo Dawn Pemberton has a deep musical foundation rooted in tradition. Dawn spent her formative years surrounded by a family of multi-instrumentalists and developed a true love of music as a young girl. In addition to regularly collaborating on the projects of her peers and having an educated background in jazz voice and piano, Dawn is a talented and passionate songwriter in her own right. A staple of the West Coast music scene, Dawn can be found tearing it up as a vocalist, arranger, and go-to for live performances and studio sessions.

Dawn is heavily influenced by rhythm. She is drawn to the percolating under current of soul–jazz and funk which is infused in everything that she does: “I’ve got a rhythmic stream running through me at all times. It’s all about the groove for me.” On leadoff single ‘Deeper’ soulful grooves meet swirling organs, punchy horns, and tight drum breaks that pay homage to Dawn’s roots in gospel but update the sound with a feel all her own.

Dawn Pemberton is the secret weapon of funk and soul groups all over Western Canada. Dawn has shared the stage with the likes of Maceo Parker, Linda Tillery, John Lee Sanders, The Sojourners, John Boutt and Dutch Robinson. Her gifts have been featured in the music of future jazz group 1Luv (Sonar Kollektiv) and in blues juggernaut, The Harpoonist and The Axe Murderer. read more…

Jodi Proznick

JUNO nominated and Western Canadian Music Award winner, bassist, composer, bandleader and educator Jodi Proznick has earned a reputation as one of Canada’s finest jazz artists. She was the winner of numerous National Jazz Awards including Bassist of the Year in 2008 and 2009. Her group The Jodi Proznick Quartet was awarded the Acoustic Group of the Year and Album of the Year in 2008 and the ‘Galaxie Rising Star’ of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival in 2000. She co-produced her JUNO nominated debut album,Foundations, in 2006 and the JUNO nominated Jaclyn Guillou album,This Bitter Earth, in 2016.

In addition to leading her own group, Jodi has performed with many of Canada’s top jazz musicians and has been featured on over 30 recordings as a sideperson. Other awards include the General Motors Award of Excellence at Musicfest Canada 1993, a performance scholarship to study bass at McGill University in Montreal and the IAJE Sisters in Jazz award in 1998 as one of the best up and coming female jazz musicians. Her latest release Sun Songs was named as one of the top 10 jazz albums of 2017 by the Ottawa Citizen and was featured in a full-page article in Downbeat Magazine in February 2018. read more…

O Come All Ye Soulful is:

Dawn Pemberton – Vocals

Jodi Proznick – Bass

Tilden Webb – Piano

Jesse Cahill – Drums

Vince Mai – Trumpet

Jon Bentley – Saxophone

TICKETS:Adults: $45Seniors: $40Students: $25

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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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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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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