For three decades, UK singer-songwriter Martin Harley has captivated audiences worldwide with his spellbinding slide guitar style and ability to blend Americana, blues, and folk.

Harley’s sold-out shows and major festival appearances, including Glastonbury, reveal a remarkable talent for creating a down-to-earth sound that is both intimate and engaging. He’s earned nominations for the Americana Music Awards’ Instrumentalist of the Year and Best Acoustic Blues Artist. He has collaborated with Jerry Douglas and Derek Mixon and toured with Bruce Hornsby, Iron and Wine and others.

Rum Ragged takes a bold approach to the distinct folk music of their homeland Newfoundland. With a reverence for their roots and a creative, contemporary edge, the band has quickly become known as the finest performers of their great, living, musical tradition.

Celebrate Christmas and the holiday season with the Winter Harp ensemble. Glorious music and song combine with festive stories to warm your heart and wrap you in the Christmas spirit.

Two esteemed Vancouver-based ensembles, musica intima and Triology, blend together colours and textures of classical vocal music and instrumental jazz for this extraordinary presentation. After releasing a recording of Maria Schneider’s Grammy Award-winning song cycle “Winter Morning Walks” in 2021, the two groups, with multiple Junos nominations between them, are debuting an entire concert of music together.

Americana and folk music singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Chris Pierce released his latest album Let All Who Will in 2023, the same year he was handpicked by Neil Young to open the sold-out Neil Young Coastal Tour. Pierce’s record received huge critical acclaim from NPR, No Depression, American Songwriter, and more, with the beautiful and thrilling song, “We Can Always Come Back to This,” reaching #1 on the Billboard Blues Chart.

Veteran finger-stylist and songwriter Chris Smither has been performing for almost 60 years and continues to be a profound songwriter, a blistering guitarist, and intense performer as he draws deeply from the blues, American folk music, modern poets and humanist philosophers. His latest record, All About the Bones, can be counted among his finest works.

Highly regarded Canadian songwriters Julian Taylor and Logan Staats join forces for an incredible evening of entertainment at BlueShore at CapU. Presented in an acoustic format, the show promises musical surprises and heartfelt storytelling.

New Orleans-based R&B and gospel singer John Boutté teams up with Vancouver’s sassiest mini-orchestra Queer as Funk and soul sensation Dawn Pemberton for an entertaining concert of Motown, soul and funk music spiced with Louisiana-style dynamism.

Performances: Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 17, 7:30 p.m.; Nov. 19, 7:30 p.m.; Nov. 21, 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 22, 2:00 p.m.

Who are the real monsters, and who actually needs to be rescued? Both terrifying and riotous, Kate Hamill’s imaginative, gender-bending play is like no Dracula you’ve seen before, upending the Victorian vampire classic in a thrilling, gory and funny new adaptation—and driving a stake through the heart of the patriarchy.

Relaxed Performance Saturday November 22nd 2pm

Performances: Nov. 14, 7:30 p.m.; Nov. 15, 2 p.m.; Nov. 18; 7:30 p.m.; Nov. 20 7:30 p.m.; Nov. 22 7:30 p.m.

When penniless gambler Maksim Blowhardovitch stumbles into a tiny Russian village and is mistaken for an undercover government inspector, he inadvertently gets thrown into a whirlwind of panic, lies and greed—led by the most corruptible of them all, village Commissar Grusha Griftgraftnikov. This new adaptation brings a modern twist to Gogol’s classic play that exposes the corruption possible in any town with wit, hilarity and biting satire.