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You don't want to be shaking, shucking, or
hurling yourself from stages when little Cupid
is around with his bow, or you could get one
of those arrows in the eye. It's best to sit back,
hold hands, and listen to music while gazing
fondly at the person you'd most like to get
unhygienic with. The Stellar Saxophone
Quartet is all the sax you could ever desire,
with Coat Cooke, Fran~ois Houle, Daniel Kane,
and Bob Walker providing sparks for a fourway jazz plug-in at the Pitt Gallery on Friday
(February 12), which is also the night that
perennial favourite folk-rocker Roy Forbes is
at the Matsqui Hall in Mission. If you are
cynical enough to believe "Can love last
forever?" and "How do you keep a moron in
suspense?" are one and the same question,
then No Fun in Love at the Tom Lee Music
Hall is the show for you on Saturday (February
13) as quirky Surrey trio No Fun thumbs its
,
collective nose at romance. The other option
that night would be the Kokoro Dance/Kane- The tenor of the evening will be alto-gether unusual when the Stellar
Saxophone Quartet comes to the Pitt Gallery. Larry Svirchev photo.
Taylor Explosion at the Pitt Gallery, a
Club for reel people. While Altan is skirling through its second show
collaboration that caused quite a buzz last year with its fusion of
on Wednesday (February 17), Night of 1,000 Guitars will have a
improvisational dance and free-form jazz. For the big day itself,
dozen or more of the city's best strummers and pickers presenting a
there are two excellent choices: clarinet and klezmer by a master of
Argentine popular folk music, Giora Feidman, in town to play at
series of solos and duets at the Cruel Elephant. The American
heartland is well-represented in shows coming up late in the week.
the Temple Sholom; or the laid-back, utterly refreshing rock of
Uncle Tupelo brings its Illinois country thrash to the Elephant on
Coal, in a double bill with that unheralded local tunesmith, Herald
Thursday (February 18), along with a can't-miss opening actNix, at the Anza Club. With Eros and his dangerous toy finished for
another year, we can chance some dancing on Tuesday (February
Kansas singer/songwriter Freedy Johnston. At the Anza Club on
16). At the Town Pump that night, Seattle's pioneer sludge-rockers
Friday (February 19), Virginia's Bluegrass Cardinals will lead the
stomping and clapping. And don't forget about the upcoming solo
the Melvins attempt a harmonic resonance capable of setting off
jazz piano show by Marcus Roberts on Saturday (February 20) at
small earthquakes in unstable areas, Information Society
St. Andrew's Wesley Church. All in all, a lovely week for all kinds of
manufactures some techno-pop at Richard's on Richards, and
music-and not a single show in a cattle barn.
traditional Celtic band Altan begins a two-night stand at the WISE