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A DJ spins with a lap top and headphones in blue lights.

African Connections wants you to dance and connect with Black culture

By Kerilie McDowall ● Nanaimo ● January 31, 2023 February 2, 2023

Crimson Coast Dance’s fourth annual African Connections project celebrates Black History Month with a series of dance workshops and community-building events.

Band Shakamoraine at The Corner Lounge in Nanaimo

Nanaimo band Shakamoraine celebrates 30 years of ‘friends first, songs second’

By Kerilie McDowall ● Nanaimo ● January 17, 2023 January 18, 2023

With a love for music and each other, Shakamoraine’s weekend performances will feature band-arranged covers and self-penned originals.

Students hold instruments in a band room.

Watch for: Nanaimo’s multi-award-winning Wellington Jazz Academy

By Kerilie McDowall ● Nanaimo ● December 12, 2022 December 13, 2022

Wellington Secondary students, directed by award-winning Canadian music director Carmella Luvisotto, perform their Winter Concert.

David Gogo plays the guitar in a burgundy shirt and long coat in dark lit stage.

Watch for: Nanaimo blues hero David Gogo

By Kerilie McDowall ● Nanaimo ● December 6, 2022 December 7, 2022

John Lee sits at a piano gazing above it wearing a collared shirt and blue jeans.

Nanaimo-grown multi-instrumentalist John Lee shares the story behind The Artist

By Kerilie McDowall ● Nanaimo ● November 22, 2022 November 23, 2022

While the jazz musician has mastered the drums, bass, guitar, piano and Hammond B3 organ, he picks up the bass for his debut album.