2016-2017 season retrospective

The final performance of OUTSIDE MULLINGAR marked the closing of our 2016-2017 MainStage season! We've had a fabulous year with all of you and look forward to seeing you again for our 2017-2018 season. Here are some highlights from this past season.


A GOOD WAY OUT
by Cara Norrish
Photos featuring: Carl Kennedy, Andrew Wheeler, Corina Akeson, Chad Ellis, and Evelyn Chew 

SUITCASE STORIES
by Maki Yi
Photos featuring: Maki Yi

HOLY MO! A CHRISTMAS SHOW!
by Lucia Frangione

Photos featuring: Lucia Frangione, Anita Wittenberg, Jess Amy Shead

CHRISTMAS PRESENCE
Photos featuring: Spencer Capier, Garth Bowen, Corey Janz, Jon Ochsendorf, John Voth, Nelson Boschman, Becca Birkner, Rick Calhoun, Zack Pick, and Carolyn Arends

CORLEONE: THE SHAKESPEAREAN GODFATHER
by David Mann

Photos featuring: Nicola Lipman, Stefania Indelicato, Colleen Winton, Christina Wells Campbell, Kaitlin Williams, Elizabeth Kirkland, Corina Akeson, Michelle Martin, Evelyn Chew, Paige Louter, Danielle Klauwt, Lindsay Curl

SIDE SHOW

Photos featuring: Lindsay Curl, Danielle Klaudt, Cara Cunningham, Paige Louter, Frank Nickel, and Phil R. Miguel

VALLEY SONG
by Athol Fugard

Photos featuring: David Adams and Sereana Malani

TESTAMENT

Photos featuring: Tom Pickett, Mark Bender, Ron Reed, Nelson Boschman, Rick Colhoun, and Jon Ochsendorf

OUTSIDE MULLINGAR
by John Patrick Shanley

Photos featuring: Ron Reed, Rebecca deBoer, John Emmet Tracy, and Erla Faye Forsyth

testament | featured artists | mark bender & nelson boschman,

We had a great opening of TESTAMENT last night! Come join us tonight for more stories and songs about Jesus. And check out the talented musicians joining us for the remainder of the show!

Mark Bender

"I'm excited to perform in Testament because I get to play with very talented Christian artists. We have a chance to retell Jesus's journey to the Cross in a spontaneous, exciting way!"

Mark Bender has been an acoustic and electric bass player for over forty years, enjoying a wide variety of performance experiences. He has toured with a Top 40 rock band, played in numerous dance and jazz groups, gives private lessons, and has gained both TV and recording experience. Mark has played abroad in both Japan and Germany, and has over twenty recording project credits. He keeps his classical bass playing current by continuing to play in the New Westminster Symphony Orchestra and the Brock House Orchestra.

Mark’s talents are in increasing demand. Along with JucoJive, he plays in the greater Vancouver area with a variety of other jazz groups, including the Doe Bender Trio, Pensativa, Wanda Nowicki, as well as Bob Liley's Sanctuary All Stars and the Urbana big band. Mark demonstrates his versatility by also playing with the folk fusion band Illiteratty and the classical ensemble Fluterrific.
Mark truly enjoys working with creative people, and appreciates how music can capture and stimulate a wide range of emotions, often in a very intimate or spontaneous way. He can hardly wait to see where music will take him next!

Nelson Boschman

Nelson Boschman has been playing jazz, folk, and pop piano throughout Greater Vancouver since 1997. His group, the Nelson Boschman Trio, was formed while in the Jazz Studies Program at Capilano College in North Vancouver, BC (Canada) and has enjoyed playing at various coffeehouses, restaurants, weddings, benefits, corporate functions, and Jazz Vespers services. The group's creative, interactive style is influenced by the piano trios led by Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett and Brad Mehldau, and appeals to a wide audience.

Boschman has recorded two CDs as a composer/arranger/bandleader to date. KEEPING TIME, Vol. 01 was released in 2004. KEEPING TIME Vol. 02 was released in August 2007. Both have received airplay on CBC radio’s HOT AIR and TONIC programs, and can be purchased on iTunes.

Vancouver jazz great Brad Turner has the following to say about Boschman’s work:

Nelson Boschman is a pianist of taste and refinement. Not one to waste notes, his solos are thoughtful, and beautifully crafted. His recording “Keeping Time” displays his considerable talents as a composer and arranger, and the performances by all musicians involved are top-notch.

testament | featured artists | zaac pick & rachael button

Zack Pick

"Like most people, I feel I've become too familiar with the Easter story — it seems to have been tamed in a way by so many glitzy tellings — but Ron and Co. have a way using a story's lesser-known characters to reveal some larger truths we might have missed. I'm excited to be a part of it!"

With a reputation for captivating lyrics and haunting melodies, Zaac Pick has been quickly gaining acclaim across the country and beyond. While sharing stages with the likes of Bahamas and The Civil Wars, his songs have been featured on numerous primetime TV dramas. The cinematic folk songs on the Vancouver-based singer-songwriter’s latest release Constellations examine the interconnected people in our lives — as Pick’s unique voice and intimate story-telling sets the stage for a show not to be missed.

zackpick.com

Rachael Button

"I'm really looking forward to performing with Pacific Theatre for Testament. Easter is my favourite time of year, and this year it's made even better by performing with such talented and creative people. Thanks for having me!"

Rachel Button is a British singer, Songwriter, fiddle player and vocal coach. She is at the forefront of the British folk music scene and has been privileged to perform at The Royal Albert Hall, The Roundhouse, Kensington Palace and The Great British Folk Festival. Rachel’s music swept her across the atlantic to North America where she now resides in Vancouver BC.

rachaelbutton.com