Victoria Jazz Society

Victoria BC Fringe Festival Offers 400 Performances August 21-31

The 22nd Annual Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival will run August 21- 31, 2008. The Fringe is an unjuried, uncensored, international festival of live comedy, drama, dance, spoken word, and more.
Companies are selected by lottery in November. Anyone with a show can apply. In 2007, 16,000 people came to the Victoria Fringe and hundreds volunteered to [...]

Victoria BC Jazz Fest 2008 Kicks Off June 25th at Victoria Conservatory of Music

Dubbed “the Paganini of the double bass,” Paris-born Renaud Garcia-Fons combines a unique mastery of his instrument with an eclectic musical perspective that spans classical and several world-music traditions. After studying acoustic bass at the Paris Conservatory of Music, Garcia-Fons began a long immersion in the worlds of jazz and traditional music. Eventually he added [...]