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Your Style Your Way The dynamic team at Luxe Home Interiors is here to inspire. We’re proud to introduce our new line of contemporary outdoor living space furniture. Each piece can be custom covered in a large selection of Sunbrella fabrics to suit your style. These performance fabrics are fade resistant, colour fast, cleanable, and durable. Unharmed by bleach, these textiles are perfect in exposed outdoor and indoor environments. With the assurance that accompanies every one of our products; function and value come together at Luxe to fit your style, your way.
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FRONT ROW
By Robert Moyes
Getting Jazzed While a lot of our music festivals have fallen like 10-pins, JazzFest more than ever stands out as the biggest show in town. Running for 10 days and featuring approximately 350 musicians in several dozen ticketed and free shows and workshops, the 27-year-old JazzFest continues to be artistically impressive and a great popular success. According to festival producer (and co-founder) Darryl Mar, there are a lot of acts to get excited about this year, including Wynton Marsalis and his ensemble. Mar is particularly proud of snagging legendary flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia, someone he’s been trying to book since the early 1990s. “And I’m thrilled about Lucinda Williams because her songwriting is so wonderful,” says Mar, who’s also looking forward to a couple of emerging jazz stars.
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“Robert Glasper has serious credentials as both a jazz pianist and a hip-hop musician, while Trombone Shorty and his band Orleans Avenue are renowned for their high-energy live shows … his profile has skyrocketed,” adds Mar. When asked if he still gets asked why he books non-jazz shows, Mar grins and says that nobody bugs him anymore. “People realize that for us to continue presenting jazz, we have to diversify and reach new audiences,” he explains. Mar, who presides over an $850,000 budget, claims never to get tired of all the work and stress. “I enjoy presenting this music,” he says. “Especially artists who have never been here… and never would have come were it not for JazzFest.” Running from June 24-July 3 at numerous venues. For tickets, call 250-388-4423, or see jazzvictoria.ca.
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Wynton Marsalis (centre, with trumpet) and his 15-member Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra are just of one of the stellar acts coming to Victoria for the 27th Annual JazzFest, running June 24 to July 3. Marsalis and his ensemble perform Saturday June 27, 7:30 pm, Royal Theatre.
Talking to Canadians Famed comedian and satirist Rick Mercer will soon be talking to Victorians — or at least those 500 lucky enough to have purchased $200 tickets for a special event celebrating the Victoria Foundation’s 75th birthday. Mercer, who rose to national fame on This Hour Has 22 Minutes and a decade ago went solo on Rick Mercer’s Monday Report and then The Rick Mercer Report, is revered for his one-man skits and signature “rants” mocking everything from political stupidity to our national neuroses. The dapper, Newfoundland-born comic has won more than 20 Gemini awards, and his 22 Minutes spin-off special, Talking To Americans, became the highest-rated comedy special in CBC history. Mercer’s sly comedy will be the highlight of a posh bash at the Conference
Centre that casts a spotlight on the hard-working Victoria Foundation, which helps literally hundreds of charities that cover the spectrum from arts groups to health care. From humble beginnings in a soup kitchen, the foundation now oversees assets in excess of $180-million; in many cases it acts as a “broker” to help donors make the best use of their money, whether they want to benefit northern First Nations or the local hospice. “We have grown into a fairly complex organization,” notes CEO Sandra Richardson. “We have a national reach and are the sixth-largest community foundation in Canada.” The champagne flows beginning at 6 pm, June 11, at The Centre’s Carson Hall. For tickets, call 250-381-5532. Although it is likely to sell out, there will be a waiting list — and maybe some rush seats.
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In a Summer Chamber Mood For 24 years Victoria’s chamber music fans have trekked out to the Saanich Peninsula for a unique summertime treat: Brahms, Dvorak, and Mozart in a bucolic setting, where those cascading notes seem as sweet as a flowering hibiscus. Eine Kleine Summer Music is happily ensconced in the handsome, acoustically grand First Unitarian Church and these days sells out the entire series, which runs four Sundays in June. “The hall holds 250, and more than half of the audience are series subscribers,” explains Laura Backstrom, co-artistic director of the festival along with her husband, Pierre Cayer.
Expect fireworks when renowned cellist Shauna Rolston performs the final Eine Kleine Summer Music concert June 26 at First Unitarian Church on West Saanich Road.
Backstrom is a cellist and Cayer an oboist who moved here from Ottawa to play with the Naden Band. They took over direction of the festival shortly after their arrival in 1999 and are regular performers, along with other well-known Victoria musicians such as violinist Julian Vitek, flautist Richard Volet, and clarinetist Keith MacLeod. The series opens with guest artist Jane Coop, a noted Canadian pianist who will perform a Schumann piano trio with violinist Terence Tam and Backstrom on cello. “Jane is such a great pianist and I think people will want to hear her playing chamber music,” says Backstrom. “And the Schumann trios have been unfairly neglected… they’re gorgeous works.” Of equal interest will be the concluding performance featuring renowned cellist Shauna Rolston. “Shauna has superb technique and can do anything on the cello,” notes Backstrom. “With her, the emotions are intensified and nothing is held back. So when she plays the Rachmaninoff, expect fireworks.” Running June 5, 12, 19 and 26, 2:30 pm at 5575 West Saanich Road. For tickets, call 250-413-3134.
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