Cowichan Performing Arts Centre

Serena Ryder Live
2022-09-20 19:30 - 21:35 (America/Vancouver) | Cowichan Performing Arts Centre, 2687 James Street, Duncan, BC, V9L 2X5, Canada
Cowichan Performing Arts Centre and Gee Dan Productions present

Toronto-based vocal powerhouse Serena Ryder is a platinum-selling artist adored by fans, peers and critics alike, in part due to her raw and earnest songwriting, and beautifully electric live performances. She has won seven prestigious JUNO Awards, including the 2022 Adult Contemporary Album of the Year for her recent record: The Art of Falling Apart. Serena has received several further accolades, including Canada’s Walk of Fame Allan Slaight Music Impact Honour, the Margaret Trudeau Mental Health Advocacy Award, and a Canadian Screen Award for Achievement in Music–Original Song.

With The Art of Falling Apart, Serena invites listeners to join her mental wellness journey and helps us understand the importance of sitting with the uncomfortable moments and the wisdom in their messages. Over a driving pop sound bursting with irresistible rhythms, pulsing bass lines, and the full range of her powerful and expressive voice, she pulls listeners through her own winding, transformational journey, detailing despair, toxic relationships, and breakdowns alongside hope, joy, and big, big love.

Special guest is Desiree Dawson, a JUNO-nominated recording artist, songwriter, producer and yoga teacher. A CBC radio favourite, Desirée’s music has been featured on numerous CBC programs, has her songs on regular rotation and won the CBC Searchlight contest in 2016.

Jesse Cook: Tempest II Tour
2022-09-19 19:30 - 21:30
Cowichan Performing Arts Centre and Gee Dan Productions present

An accomplished guitarist, producer and equally prolific film maker, Jesse Cook has evolved his talents to create experiences that delight audiences both in concert, and online.

He composed his first album, Tempest, over 25 years ago. Jesse could not imagine that such a humble recording, in which he played all the instruments, would spark into a music legacy with thousands of concerts performed around the world, over 2 million albums sold, 5 PBS TV specials, and tens of millions of content views and streams across the internet. Jesse and his extraordinary band are looking forward to returning to the road, bringing the Tempest II Tour and their unique brand of rhythm and rhumba to audiences across North America in 2022.

Photo by Matt Barnes

Cancelled: Cirque Alfonse Animal
2022-09-17 14:00 - 15:00
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this show has been cancelled. The Ticket Centre will be in contact with patrons for refunded tickets. If you have any questions for concerns, please contact the Box Office at 250.746.2722 .

ANIMAL takes us on a journey of discovery through a series of slightly surreal farm fables served up with a touch of irreverence, impressive virtuosity and the company’s signature comic touch. In this reinvented agricultural world, the farm is turned upside down and the barn’s inside out!

A gentleman farmer has surrounded himself with some familiar but slightly outlandish creatures: the chickens have teeth, the ducks are slightly menacing and the cows are kicking up a fuss. In this “farm fantasy,” the imagination conjures up stories from childhood, rural life proves to be both energetic and poetic, and clichés are joyfully turned on their head. Yet again, the clan of family and friends that make up Cirque Alfonse has favoured a multidisciplinary approach where circus, song, dance and theatre all come together, driven by original live music—an irresistible mix of trad and soul that the troupe calls agricultural funk!

A production for young and old alike, animal is the farm gone haywire!

Derek Edwards: In Praise of the Ostrich
2022-09-14 19:30 - 21:30
Cowichan Performing Arts Centre and Shantero Productions present

With ‘In Praise of the Ostrich’ Derek Edwards moseys back into town on horse-drawn comedy wagon; a searing meander down life’s twisting trails, steered effortfully by this 30-year veteran. He returns with a payload of blissfully funny personal stories — a cacophony of shenanigans — set to tickle the ribs and warm the heart.

With an easy conversational style, Derek reluctantly pulls his head out of the sand and launches into commentary on the influx of pot stores, self-driving cars, gambling tips, the challenge of staying youthful … plus dressing warm.

From Vegas to St. John’s, this Just For Laughs veteran is universally considered to be among the comic elite. Certainly his peers think so, as evidenced by the fact that he’s a four-time nominee, and winner of Best Standup Comic — Canadian Comedy Awards, as well as a multiple Gemini nominee for Best Performance in a Comedy. As Rick Mercer says, “Everyone knows Derek is the funniest man in Canada.”

Clearly the critics agree:
“5 STARS – the funniest man on earth” – Winnipeg Free Press;
“4 STARS – the crowd howled” – Victoria Times Colonist; “still the funniest man in Canada” – Toronto Sun;
“Edwards reigns as the King of Canadian comedy” – Charlottetown Guardian;
“Derek Edwards is hysterical” – Calgary Sun;
“Edwards takes stand-up to next stage” – Georgia Straight;
“the epitome of timing & storytelling” – Halifax Chronicle Herald;
“the comedian’s comedian” – London Free Press.

“In Praise of the Ostrich” – Derek Edwards’ new 90-minute stand-up comedy show …a richly textured and enthralling “cut above,” delivered with pace and authority by the consummate Canadian Comedian. Down to earth, lots of laughs, wagons ho.

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