Name: The Arntzen Family w/ Kristina Olsen - East Van Gogos Fundraiser
Start: 2024-05-17T20:00:00-07:00
Location: St. James Community Square

$The Arntzen Family w\/ Kristina Olsen - East Van Gogos Fundraiser$

All proceeds from this concert will go to the Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, which supports grandmothers ("Gogos" in Zulu) raising a generation of children orphaned by the AIDS pandemic in 15 African countries. The East Van Gogos is one of more than 250 such groups across Canada.
Join the East Van Gogos for this musical event in partnership with the Rogue Folk Club. The evening includes the legendary Arntzen Family. Come ready to parlay your “small change” into big change by participating in the raucous live Loonie Auction, where every auction item will cost you only a loonie!
THE ARNTZEN FAMILY
Lloyd, Tom and Georgina Arntzen have teamed up to create a show featuring plenty of swing, blues and amazing original folk music from British Columbia. BC Entertainment Hall of Fame member Lloyd Arntzen (clarinet, soprano sax, vocals) is a local jazz and folk legend, and still carries an amazing amount of energy in his 96 year-young-frame. He is joined by his son Tom (piano, vocals), and daughter-in-law Georgina (mandolin, vocals). These three pack a punch that is guaranteed to bring the audience to its feet in appreciation for one of BC’s most iconic musical families.
KRISTINA OLSEN
Kristina was born in San Francisco and raised in Haight-Ashbury during the 1960s and won the "New Folk" contest at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas in 1985. She is one of the most entertaining and compelling performers on the international acoustic circuit. A superb multi-instrumentalist (acoustic guitar, steel-body slide guitar, saxophone, concertina, banjo, mandolin and piano) as well as an award-winning songwriter with a big bluesy voice, Kristina has audiences around the world coming back for more. Her mix of powerful songs ranging from sassy bottleneck blues to lilting ballads to swing jazz to raunch and roll (as well as her hilarious storytelling) makes for a diverse and satisfying musical experience, on stage, on disc and in book.
Doors 7PM/ Show 8PM.