Each ticket, priced at $10 admission, guarantees entrance and a lounge-style chair. Relax with a glass of BC-grown wine, or choose from an outdoor extended bar menu. Doors open at 6:30 pm, and entertainment kicks off from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm.

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Alex Maher

All music is magic. It’s easy to become numb to it, in this hyper-online, easily streamed, only in my headphones era of music, but every so often, that universal truth, that magic, can snap into focus. Watching Alex Maher build an entire song before your eyes will do that to you. First a beat, then a groove. Synths, keys and guitar. He sings the words and melodies he wrote – or someone else wrote –  and then blows the house down with his alto sax. And then, he does it again, and again and again. Nothing prerecorded, all live.

This is how music is made, and we all know that. But to watch it happen is a privilege not afforded to fans of artists who would do it all themselves in the studio, like Maher’s musical hero Stevie Wonder. Live looping is still something of a novelty – Feist and Tash Sultana come to mind as some of the field’s most forward thinkers – but people are looking for something new from musicians, and what Maher does is about as futuristic as anything happening in music right now. He and his music are meeting the moment. People have shaken off the cobwebs of the pandemic; they want to move, they want to be wowed, and while Maher has a body of recorded work going back twenty years, he is someone you have to experience live to be touched by the magic, the life that his music exudes.

R&B, electronic, jazz and hip-hop – but lyrically, they feature the kind of singer-songwriter earnestness you don’t always find in those genres.