Cancelled due to weather and travel conditions. We apologize for any inconvenience. Ticket holders will be contacted by the Ticket Centre for refunds shortly.
An exciting west coast premiere holiday concert celebrating the dynamic and engaging sounds of the season with brass! Acclaimed Victoria based brass ensemble The Festive Brass bring an exhilarating and appropriately festive concert on tour of Vancouver Island for the first time.
Featuring over 1.5 hours of holiday favourites ‘HOLIDAY HORNS!’ will have you feeling the spirit of the season all through the evening. Brilliant and quirky arrangements of classic holiday tunes performed by a 12 piece brass and percussion ensemble will leave audiences with a warm and nostalgic feeling this holiday season. Featured musical selections include the beautiful ‘White Christmas’, latin party style ‘Feliz Navidad’, a ‘Funky Little Drummer Boy’, New Orleans “Frosty” and Festive Brass infamously twisted “Rudolph Variations”. Signature Festive Brass sound will be heard — bold, big, jazzy fun!
Over 20 years or so ago, Butchart Gardens in beautiful Victoria B.C. wanted to add some live music for patrons as they strolled through the light displays during their holiday season. A brass group was hired to play ‘festive’ music toggling with a group of traditional carollers. Throughout the years, the brass became extremely popular as they combined top-notch musicianship with quirky arrangements of well-loved holiday classics, and some additional cheeky humour interacting with our audiences. With a library approaching two hundred arrangements, almost all of which have been written by the members of the group, They Festive Brass playfully boast the ability to play almost any Christmas tune upon request, and may even tell you: “If we don’t know it, we’ll fake it!”