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Desiree Dawson White Rock and South Surrey fans of 2016 CBC Searchlight winner and Earl Marriott grad Desiree Dawson – who still retains strong ties to the Semiahmoo Peninsula – will welcome the opportunity to hear her perform live Saturday, May 25, from 7 p.m. at the Kingfisher Farm Market barn concert at 512 172 St. Well-known for her soulful folk sound, Dawson is equally adept at captivating audiences with her own ukulele accompaniment, a full band or an electronic dance track. Since winning the Searchlight contest, Dawson released a debut album, Wild Heart, to popular acclaim – three singles, the title track, Where Do We Go and Hide, all spent time in the CBC top-20 chart, and the latter made it to number 31 of the CBC’s top 100 songs of 2017. A 2018 single, Just Fine, also spent a good deal of time climbing the CBC top-20 chart and was also featured as one of the CBC’s top 100 songs of the year. Dawson, who has appeared at the CBC Music Festival in Toronto, and toured the U.S. and Germany, still makes regular appearances in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, including the Surrey Fusion Fest. She has also been invited to perform at this year’s Vancouver Folk Festival in July. Tickets to the barn concert ($22) are available from kingfishermarket.com
South Surrey White Rock Art Society show and sale, takes place June 1 and 2 at the Turnbull Gallery (at South Surrey Recreation and Arts Centre). The 10 participating artists are inspired by a range of visual esthetics – from animals and wildflowers to natural stone jewelry and the human form. Among work on display will be paintings by poet/artist Veronica Newell, including a dynamic depiction of a crow; African flowers by Caroline Baasch; and symbolic paintings in various media by Dianne Cuzner. Also featured will be whimsical paintings by children’s book illustrator Sandy Gagnon; romantic figurative studies by Norm Carriere, and jewelry by June Bloye, inspired by the culture of Arizona and the turquoise/ malachite conglomerate stone of the region. Artists will be present throughout the show. Open hours will be 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. The centre is located at 14601 20 Ave.
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Audience-pleasing orchestral highlights on the program will include 19th century compositions by the family of waltz king Johan Strauss, Alex Browne as well as Offenbach’s immortal Can Can The White Rock theme (Galop Infernal) Community Orchestra, originally featured in his under the direction of operetta Orpheus in the maestra Paula DeWit, Underworld. will present its spring Equally accessible concert Sunday, May 26, orchestral pieces from 7 p.m. at Mount Olive more recent years will Lutheran Church, 2350 include lively Western148 St. style themes from Aaron Highlighted in the Copland’s ballet Rodeo, ambitious program will and the stirring Olympic be 11 auditioned children Fanfare and Theme from and adult guest pianists, 1984. chosen through the orchestra’s Tickets ($20, $5 for children under Piano Extravaganza competition. 12) are available online from wrco.ca Performing – with orchestral accompaniment specially arranged by DeWit – will be Athena Halili, Sumi Guan, Tony Zong Yue Li, Alicia There’s always something Wang, Julianne Xu, Elijah Ron hopping at White Rock’s Mangoyob Santos, Angelina Blue Frog Studios, the city’s Hung, Rafael Brisebois, Levi unmatched intimate venue for Guan, Karmyn Anderson and up-close concerts by national and Bobbi-Dee Schultz. international touring acts, as well
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White Rock and South Surrey-raised singer and composer Desiree Dawson – winner of the 2016 CBC Searchlight contest – will make a welcome return to the Semiahmoo Peninsula for a barn concert May 25 at the Kingfisher Farm Market, 512 172 St.
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as local and B.C.-based artists. Upcoming highlights include folk legends The Kingston Trio tonight (May 22); Pianorama! with keyboard wizards Doc Fingers and Diane Lines, plus sizzling back up musicians Tim Porter on guitar and Tony Chamberlist on drums (May 25); “harpbreaker” Mark Hummel and the Golden State Lone Star Blue Revue (May 31) and A Night of Bowie starring Syl Thompson (June 21). For tickets and information, visit bluefrogstudios.ca or call 604-542-3055.
Traditional jazz White Rock Traditional Jazz Society’s regular series of 2-5 p.m. Sunday dances to live New Orleans and Chicago jazz and small-band swing continues for another two weekends at Crescent Legion Branch’s Club 240. This Sunday (May 26), it’s popular bassist and vocalist Jen Hodge with her All Stars, followed on June 2 by the WRTJS end-ofseason party with Gerry Green’s
Crescent Jazzers. The venue is at 2643 128 St.; admission is $10; $12 (nonmembers) and $6 (students with ID).
Cloverdale Concerts Latest venture for Penmar Community Arts Society organizers David Geertz and Dione Costanzo is the Cloverdale Concerts series at Shannon Hall. Opener is a roots-and-blues barbecue kickoff bash Saturday, June 1, headlined by the Steve Kozak Band, with guest artists Paul Pigat, Jerry Cook and The Modelos (doors at 6:30 p.m., show at 8 p.m.). The event will feature a cash bar and beef or veggie burgers with two sides for $10. Venue is at the Cloverdale Fairgrounds (6050 176 St.) Tickets ($25) are available at showpass.com
Art society show For The Love of Colour, latest
Artists Linda Pearce and Jack Turpin present Eccentric Narratives, the second part of the two-show Seriously Quirky series, which continues until May 29 at the Landmark POP-Uptown Gallery at 15140 North Bluff Rd. Pearces’s acrylic-on-canvas works – in which doll imagery is used to explore and comment on magical and mythological themes – will be juxtaposed with Turpin’s coloured ink-on-paper renderings of imaginary landscapes, and papier-maché models of fanciful houses, seemingly built of flotsam and jetsam.
Open-mics The burgeoning Semiahmoo Peninsula scene for open-mics and coffee houses continues to grow. A live open-mic for musicians, hosted by well-known local musician Dennis Peterson, is a regular Saturday night feature, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Pelican Rouge Coffee Shop, 15142 North Bluff Rd. Sign up is at 5:30 p.m. A music-oriented open-mic is held most Tuesday nights at 7 p.m. at Three Dogs Brewing (1515 Johnston Rd.), and while it’s not an open-mic, per se, students of NUVO Music School are regularly featured in Saturday afternoon performances at Everbean Cafe (106-15331 16 Ave.)