BeatRoute Magazine BC Edition June 2019
BeatRoute Magazine is a monthly arts and entertainment paper with a predominant focus on music – local, independent or otherwise. The paper started in June 2004 and continues to provide a healthy dose of perversity while exercising rock ‘n’ roll ethics. Currently BeatRoute’s AB edition is distributed in Calgary, Edmonton (by S*A*R*G*E), Banff and Canmore. The BC edition is distributed in Vancouver, Victoria and Nanaimo. BeatRoute (AB) Mission PO 23045 Calgary, AB T2S 3A8 E. editor@beatroute.ca BeatRoute (BC) #202 – 2405 E Hastings Vancouver, BC V5K 1Y8 P. 778-888-1120
BeatRoute Magazine is a monthly arts and entertainment paper with a predominant focus on music – local, independent or otherwise. The paper started in June 2004 and continues to provide a healthy dose of perversity while exercising rock ‘n’ roll ethics.
Currently BeatRoute’s AB edition is distributed in Calgary, Edmonton (by S*A*R*G*E), Banff and Canmore. The BC edition is distributed in Vancouver, Victoria and Nanaimo. BeatRoute (AB) Mission PO 23045 Calgary, AB T2S 3A8 E. editor@beatroute.ca BeatRoute (BC) #202 – 2405 E Hastings Vancouver, BC V5K 1Y8 P. 778-888-1120
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TD Vancouver<br />
International<br />
Jazz<br />
Festival<br />
<strong>June</strong> 21 to<br />
July 1, <strong>2019</strong><br />
Best of the Fest<br />
By YASMINE SHEMESH<br />
S<br />
ince Rainbow Robert took over as<br />
managing director for artistic programming<br />
at the TD Vancouver International<br />
Jazz Festival in 2018, she’s<br />
made it a point to highlight the louder, more unexpected<br />
expressions rooted in jazz.<br />
“It’s protest music,” Robert says. “It’s music<br />
where there’s a free dialogue about what’s going<br />
on in the world. Whether it’s the celebration or<br />
indignation, I think edgy music wakes us up. It’s<br />
something that’s really important to invite and to<br />
enjoy.”<br />
In the defiant spirit of its roots, the jazz<br />
festival, now in its 34th edition, has always<br />
featured artists not afraid to challenge,” to<br />
speak out against injustice, or honestly portray<br />
the realities they live in.<br />
This sentiment rings especially true this year.<br />
Alongside rhythmic jazz innovator Herbie Hancock,<br />
the lineup includes hardcore hip-hop greats<br />
Wu-Tang Clan, the experimental and improvisational<br />
Yonatan Gat and Eastern Medicine<br />
Singers, transgender singer-songwriter<br />
Beverly Glenn-Copeland and<br />
Russell Wallace — the festival’s<br />
<strong>2019</strong> Indigenous Artist<br />
in Residence.<br />
“It’s a pretty wild<br />
world that we’re living<br />
in now,” Robert says.<br />
“And I think putting<br />
forward music that really<br />
speaks to that is<br />
particularly important.”<br />
TD Vancouver<br />
International Jazz<br />
Festival / <strong>June</strong> 21 to<br />
July 1, <strong>2019</strong> /<br />
Various locations /<br />
Tix: coastaljazz.ca<br />
Wu-Tang Clan<br />
Co-founder RZA has always<br />
been open about the iconic New<br />
York hip-hop group’s mission to<br />
open minds. Socially-conscious,<br />
philosophical, gritty and brilliant,<br />
they’re one of the most important<br />
acts of our time.<br />
8 p.m. on <strong>June</strong> 23 / Queen Elizabeth<br />
Theatre / Tickets from $69.<br />
The Roots<br />
Often referred to as hip-hop’s<br />
first “live band,” The Roots have<br />
redefined the genre over and<br />
over again with their ingenious<br />
mix of freewheeling grooves and<br />
insightful lyrics.<br />
8 p.m. on <strong>June</strong> 28 / Queen Elizabeth<br />
Theatre / Tickets from $79.<br />
Herbie Hancock<br />
Hancock, a pioneer of the funky<br />
and abstract post-bop jazz, has<br />
made incomparable contributions<br />
to music through more than six<br />
decades of work as a composer,<br />
pianist and bandleader.<br />
8 p.m. on <strong>June</strong> 29 / Queen Elizabeth<br />
Theatre / Tickets from $69.<br />
Beverly Glenn-Copeland<br />
Whether you know him from<br />
Mr. Dressup, his canon of work<br />
as a folk singer-songwriter and<br />
electronic music pioneer, or his<br />
inspirational life journey as a transgender<br />
man, both Copeland and<br />
his long, diverse career are truly<br />
extraordinary.<br />
8 p.m. on <strong>June</strong> 25 / Performance<br />
Works / Tickets from $29.<br />
Yonatan Gat and Eastern<br />
Medicine Singers<br />
Gat refused to join his native Israel’s<br />
mandatory military service and<br />
his work with the Algonquin drum<br />
group is just as rebellious. Swirling<br />
Middle Eastern guitar, tribal<br />
rhythm, and confrontational harmony<br />
make for an unforgettable<br />
live performance. Gat was also a<br />
key member of the deranged and<br />
entertaining Monotonix, but this<br />
project is in a league of its own.<br />
7 p.m. on <strong>June</strong> 30 / David Lam Park<br />
/ Free.<br />
JUNE <strong>2019</strong> BEATROUTE 47