The Effie Presents their first Coffee House - a Sunday afternoon with great entertainment . This inaugural show will be a co-headlining tour for Cape Breton Island troubadour Mike McKenna Jr and Vancouver Island balladeer John Gogo. ‘East Coast meets West Coast’, both songwriter/recording artists are storytellers, steeped in the ‘songs of the workers’ tradition. […]

Inspired by Lev Tolstoy’s famous book “War and Peace”, this programme introduces works created during and shortly after World War II by three former Soviet Union composers. The music of the Russian composer S. Prokofiev, the Armenian composer A. Khachaturian, and the Ukrainian-Jewish composer D. Klebanov, whose home countries experience war again, will bring us […]

Paul Filek Performs at On the Rocks Pub. Paul Filek Is A Canadian Singer Songwriter From Kamloops, Bc Who's Released Three Albums Since 2006  With Producer Henry Small (Formerly Of The Band Prism) And in 2012 a Five Song Ep, Paper Planes And Spare Change, Produced By Jeff Dawson (Daniel Powter, State Of Shock, The Dudes). For […]

There  is a pureness to Claire's voice that can silence a room.  A moving  songwriter and compelling guitarist, Claire combines smooth folk finger  picking, jazz influenced progressions and soaring melodies. She  effortlessly pulls her audience into her personal world of life experiences. Like many others, the stasis of the pandemic left Claire Coupland to look […]