She never considered a career in music until suffering a serious motorcycle crash in 1994.
But since she started writing songs during her recovery, Chantal Kreviazuk has since gone on to become one of Canada’s best-known and most recognized singers and songwriters.
Kreviazuk is bringing her Hard Sail tour, in support of her new album, to Massey Theatre next weekend. She’s onstage Friday, Nov. 4 at 7:30 p.m.
The tour marks the release of Kreviazuk’s sixth studio release, her first new album in six years.
Since her platinum-selling debut album Under These Rocks and Stones in 1997, she’s released a string of hits that include God Made Me, Surrounded, Feels Like Home, Before You and In This Life. As a songwriter, she has penned hits for a host of big-name artists – Pink, Christina Aguilera, Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Drake and more.
She has been nominated for six Juno Awards, with wins for Best Female Artist and Best Pop/Adult Album in 2000, and she’s also the mother of three sons with her husband, Raine Maida, frontman for Our Lady Peace.
If you don’t have your tickets yet, act fast. Tickets are $46.25 (including GST and service charges) and can be bought at 604-521-5050 or online at www.ticketsnw.ca.
A TRIBUTE TO THE RAT PACK
This one’s for all who love the Rat Pack.
Singer Steve Maddock is offering up a concert next Saturday as part of the Music at Queens concert series – a Salute to the Rat Pack. Accompanied by a jazz trio, Maddock will offer up a tribute to the songs of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr.
(And yes, if you thought you recognized his name, that is the same Steve Maddock you remember from his turn as Daddy Warbucks in the Royal City Musical Theatre’s 2014 production of Annie).
His concert is set for 7:30 p.m. at Queens Avenue United Church, 529 Queens Ave. Tickets are $20 regular, $15 for students and seniors, $10 for children.
See www.queensavenue.org/musicqueens or call 604-522-1606.
LOCAL PERFORMERS IN JOSEPH
New Westminster performers will be centre stage for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat this month.
Align Entertainment is bringing the popular Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical to the stage at the Michael J. Fox Theatre in Burnaby from Nov. 4 to 19.
The musical is set in ancient Egypt and based on the biblical rags-to-riches tale of Joseph, his 11 brothers and his coat of many colours. It stars Stuart Barkley as Joseph, with Katie-Rose Connors as the Narrator.
Three New West performers are also onstage: Robin Sukorokoff is featured as Joseph’s father, Jacob, while Bronwyn Williams and Dimitrios Stephanoy also appear in the cast.
Technical director Jim Dobbs is also from New West.
It’s the opening production in Align Entertainment’s 2016/17 season – the first season in which the Coquitlam-based theatre company is in fact staging two productions. Watch for The Little Mermaid coming up in February 2017.
Tickets are $27 for students and seniors, or $39 regular, with $25 tickets on Thrifty Thursdays, and two school matinees (Nov. 7 and 18 at noon) for $15.
Check out www.alignentertainment.ca for all the details.
THEATRE STUDENTS ONSTAGE
Douglas College students are taking to the stage in the Canadian première of a work by Scottish playwright Davey Anderson.
The college is presenting Blackout from Nov. 10 through 18 in the Laura C. Muir Performing Arts Theatre.
The play tells the true story of a 15-year-old boy charged with attempted murder “who tries to piece together his life’s events that have brought him to a secure care unit and threaten to keep him there,” as a synopsis explains.
Tickets are $20 general, $10 for seniors and students, with $10 tickets for matinees and Talkback Tuesdays.
Buy in advance at blackoutatdouglas.brownpapertickets.com.
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