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SUMMARY:Spring Oak Bay Artists’ Studio Tour 2025
DESCRIPTION:The Oak Bay Artists’ Studio Tour is an opportunity to view and purchase visual art by Oak Bay artists. Many of Oak Bay’s established and emerging artists use their homes and studios as backdrops to display original watercolour\, acrylic\, and oil paintings\, photography\, woodcuts\, as well as fibre\, glass\, and pottery creations. \nThe free tour is produced by Oak Bay Parks\, Recreation\, and Culture. The tour is self-guided and self-paced\, with maps provided by Oak Bay Parks\, Recreation\, and Culture. Maps and guides to be available closer to the date. \nSpring Oak Bay Artists’ Studio Tour\nMonterey Recreation Centre\n1442 Monterey Avenue\, Victoria\, BC \n\nSaturday\, April 5\, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.\nSunday\, April 6\, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.\n\nPrivate Artists Home Studios\nLocations vary\, please view the guide once it is available. \n\nSaturday\, April 5\, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.\nSunday\, April 6\, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.\n\nPrintable Studio Tour Map \nArtists’ Attending\nMonterey Recreation Centre\nMyra Baynton: Myra works in watercolour and acrylic paints inspired by local and international settings. \nLinda Blumenthal: Linda is a watercolour artist who enjoys a variety of subjects painted in vibrant colours. \nArlene Davey: Arlene’s art reflects her appreciation of traditional Chinese Brush Painting while also including some modern touches. \nJoan Easton: Working in watercolour Joan enjoys painting flowers\, landscapes\, birds\, feathers and illuminated letters. Originals & cards will be available. Special orders are always welcome. \nJoanie McCorry: Joanie McCorry is a regular participant in the Oak Bay Artists Tour. She has been creating greeting cards for three decades. All cards are original pieces of art\, best known for 3D paper cast cards and collage cards using upcycled and repurposed items. Joanie sells cards at art tours and farmers markets around the Capital District. \nCarolyn Purden: Carolyn employs a wide variety of colourful glazes on her wheel-thrown stoneware pottery\, reflecting the hues of the earth\, sea and sky. \nLouise Quinby: Louise’s functional pottery brings joy\, peace and tranquility into your life. Discover her styles\, colours and textures. \nSophia Shafonsky: Sophia is a multimedia artist who works primarily in handmade ceramic sculptures and oil painting inspired by Vancouver Island nature.  Her work explores colours and textures creating a unique vision of our west coast botanical and marine life. \nKim Van Weelden:  Kim’s unique and vibrant floral cards (and other images) make great gifts for Easter\, and to celebrate the arrival of spring! \nHeather Midori Yamada: Heather Midori Yamada shows watercolour florals\, abstracts on Japanese washi papers.  Heather’s con-templative approaches to art-making including meditations\, reflect the spontaneous gestures and use of sumi inks with collage. \nRoy Mercer: Roy has many different styles and application but primarily watercolour is his preferred medium. His subject matter is mainly landscapes\, people and animals. He uses humour in many of his captions. \nPrivate Art Studios\nEd Hughes: Ed Hughes is a figurative and landscape painter whose work ranges from crisp representation to full abstraction. Ed has exhibited across Canada and was a Salt Spring National Art prize finalist in 2021. \nLindy Michie: Lindy paints things that make her happy. Colour is always of upmost importance. Her favourite medium is acrylic. She uses Procreate on her ipad to create work when traveling. \nMarie-Andrée Allison: Marie-Andrée is a multi-media artist with expertise in the techniques of iconography\, Fresco bueno and Byzantine style mosaic. She welcomes you and hopes to demonstrate some of the techniques she practices. \nPenny Hobson-Underwood: Penny makes art using acrylic\, oil and drawing materials\, to capture the diversity and vitality of life. She is drawn to movement\, spontaneity\, and beautiful moments whatever is going on. \nFlo-Elle Watson: Flo-Elle is a thrift shopper\, buying white porcelain that she draws and paints on with an underglaze paint. These upcycled and artified pieces are fired in her kiln making them oven microwave foodsafe. A treasured piece of art. \nDonna Ion: Donna paints in small and large format. Her work celebrates our beautiful west coast forest in her unique style. Original works and greeting cards. \nMichelle Sirois Silver: Michelle is a textile artist who creates hand hooked art and soft sculptures. Her tactile works are inspired by vivid colour exploration and repurposing materials. \nPam Stonehouse: Nature photography\, Pam explores trees\, water\, flowers\, animals and the unexpected by foot\, bike\, and canoe. Cards\, prints\, canvas and metal. \nVictor Lotto: Victor is an award-winning artist who paints local scenes in watercolour and acrylic. His imaginative abstracts have also attracted considerable interest am \n  \nOpen to the public. Free to attend.
URL:https://www.oakbay.ca/event/spring-oak-bay-artists-studio-tour-2025/
LOCATION:Monterey Recreation Centre & Private Artists’ Home Studios\, 1442 Monterey Avenue\, Victoria\, BC\, Oak Bay\, British Columbia\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Steve Dawson with Fats Kaplin
DESCRIPTION:Juno Award-winning guitarist\, producer and songwriter Steve Dawson will be making a quick swing through the west coast of Canada in April 2025 and will have legendary sideman Fats Kaplin in tow from Nashville. Steve’s unique voice on slide and lap steel guitar is front and centre\, while the two musicians improvise and play off each other as they have done in their frequent work together. Steve’s original songs and fiery slide guitar playing are the focus\, along with the duo’s unique take on blues\, Hawaiian\, and ragtime music that both musicians love to play. While Steve is well-known to Canadian audiences in his frequent visits back to Canada\, Fats Kaplin is sure to be an exciting new find to many. Fats has spent a great deal of time on the road with artists like Jack White\, John Prine\, Mitski\, Beck\, Tom Russell\, The Dead Reckoners\, and Buddy Miller to name just a few. His facility on the fiddle\, mandolin\, banjo\, oud\, accordion\, and whatever he can lay his hands on makes him one of the most in-demand side-players in modern music. It’s rare for these 2 musicians to find a week where they are both available to tour together\, but find it they have\, and they look forward to sharing an exciting night of music with audiences in BC. \nOver the past two decades\, Steve Dawson has become such an indelible fixture on the Canadian musical landscape that it’s tempting to take him for granted. The music that flows out of him is so natural and authentic that it’s possible to forget all of the toil that went into producing it.  Behind the seemingly endless stream of award winning musical output (he has produced and/or played on more than 200 albums since the turn of the millennium\, 7 of which have won Juno Awards)\, is one of the hardest working musicians this country has ever produced. Whether he’s turning heads on the concert circuit with his incendiary playing\, or pulling the best possible performances out of the many artists that he works with in the studio\, Dawson is always striving to take things to the next level. \nA native of Vancouver\, Canada\, he currently resides in Nashville\, where he works as a solo artist\, sideman\, and record producer\, Steve has forged an impressive career full of highlights and awards\, including: \n\n7 Juno Awards as artist/producer\, 18 times nominated\n3 times named “Producer Of The Year” at Western Canadian Music Awards\n4 times named “Producer Of The Year” at Canadian Folk Music Awards\nRecipient of many other awards including Maple Blues Awards\, Grand Prix De Jazz De Montreal\, Blues Blast Awards\, and many Western Canadian Music Awards and Canadian Folk Awards as an artist and producer\n\nThe Upstairs Lounge is a licensed restaurant and bar\, doors open at 6 pm for dinner service.  Please note this is a LISTENING venue. \nTickets are also available at the Oak Bay Recreation Centre\, in person or by phone (250) 595-7946\, as well as through or Beacon Ridge Productions. \n  \nhttps://www.stevedawson.ca/
URL:https://www.oakbay.ca/event/17022/
LOCATION:Oak Bay Recreation Centre\, Sports View Lounge\, 1975 Bee Street\, Oak Bay\, British Columbia\, Canada
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