Babe Corner plays the Rickshaw
By Steve Newton
FRIDAY: Vancouver indie-pop singer-songwriter Young Friend plays the Rickshaw Theatre, with guests Babe Corner, worrywart, and Kylie V.
FRIDAY: the Toddcast Podcast presents Vancouver punk legends Art Bergmann and Billy Hopeless at Blue Light Studio, with guests CFSK (Campfire Shitkickers). Here’s my interview with Art Bergmann from 1990 and my interview with Billy Hopeless from 2005.
FRIDAY: the Cool Blues Show at Fort Langley Community Park features performances by the Robert Connely Farr Duo, Brandon Isaak & His Saints of Swing, Steve Marriner and Local Electric, Angelique Francis, Jimmy D. Lane, and Bywater Call. Here’s my interview with Robert Connely Farr from 2021 and my interview with Brandon Isaak from 2002.
Klute screens at the VIFF Centre
FRIDAY: screening at the VIFF Centre of director Alan J. Pakula’s 1971 neo-noir psycho-thriller Klute, starring Jane Fonda as a New York City call girl who becomes enmeshed in a missing-persons case.
FRIDAY, SATURDAY & MONDAY: legendary American singer-songwriter Paul Simon performs three solo concerts at the Orpheum Theatre as part of his A Quiet Celebration Tour. Here’s my review of Paul Simon when he played Vancouver with Sting in 2014.
FRIDAY TO SUNDAY: the three-day Mission Folk Music Festival features mainstage performances by Lloyd Spiegel, Shpilkis, Empanadas Ilegales, John Wort Hannam Trio, and Julian Taylor.
Paul Pigat performs at the Eastside Arts Festival
FRIDAY TO SUNDAY: the Eastside Arts Festival, running to July 27 at various East Van locations, brings together local visual artists and musicians and features arts activities, food trucks, beer gardens, and a free outdoor concert July 26 in MacLean Park.
SATURDAY: the Vancouver Whitecaps take on Sporting Kansas City in Major League Soccer action at BC Place.
SATURDAY: Nova Scotia pyrotechnics team Fireworks FX lights up the sky at English Bay on the third and final night of the annual Honda Celebration of Light.
Boogie Nights screens at the Rio
SATURDAY: screening at the Rio Theatre of director Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1997 drama Boogie Nights, about the intertwined lives of a group of troubled and ambitious denizens of the late-’70s porn industry in L.A.
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