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Weather Permitting Comedy Tour headed to Victoria

A Toronto-based group of three comics have banded together delivering humour to venues across Canada. The Weather Permitting Comedy Tour, which began in Ontario on Nov. 12, will be at…

An order of soul with funk on the side: Garden City Grooves: a review

Last weekend marked the second annual Garden City Grooves music festival, celebrating three nights of soul, funk, and groove music. The two masterminds behind the festival are Nathan Ambrose and…

Summer art adventures

Integrate Arts Festival running from August 15-16

Local community unites for AfriCa Fest

The second annual AfriCa Fest took over Centennial Square in downtown Victoria on May 24, aiming to educate the public about African and Caribbean culture. “There’s a non-negligible amount of…

Music rags: Rifflandia performance that takes the Cake

It’s in with the old and in with the new. 

Island music event hopes to attract more sponsors, Canadian talent

The Vancouver Island Music Awards to welcome submissions from around B.C. and across the country

Rifflandia leaves audiences wanting more

Victoria pulls off fifth year of music festival excellence

Bumbershoot 2012 eclectic mix of music and comedy

Taking place in Seattle Center from Sept. 1–3 on various outdoor and indoor stages, the Bumbershoot music/comedy/arts festival really had something for everyone.

A marriage of one in a cardboard kitchen

Christel Bartelse returns to Victoria Fringe Festival with sequel