Island Bel Canto presents: Our Backyard

25apr7:30 pmIsland Bel Canto presents: Our Backyard

Event Details

Music Composed – and Sung! – by Canadian Women

Two of Vancouver Island’s distinguished adult treble choirs join forces to present an evening of Canadian favourites – all composed by women.
Island Bel Canto will perform songs of Joni Mitchell (Circle Game), Susan Crowe (Sparrow) and Jane Siberry (The Valley). Other compositions include: a song about a Malaysian fish (Ikan Kekek); a description of the sleek Canadian mammal (Otter); also, amazing Canadian arrangements of Aurora’s Apple Tree, Eastern Owl’s Warrior, and an uplifting composition titled Light, by Montreal’s Marie-Claire Saindon (to a poem by Rabindranath Tagore).
Guest artists Encore! Women’s Choir, based in Duncan, will present their own set of Canadian favourites, including Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now.
Both choirs – with over 50 soaring voices – will sing Connie Kaldor’s Wood River, a hilarious rendition of A Place in the Choir, and a new song by Vancouver Island composer, Deborah Sumner – Our Backyard.
What better way to spend a spring evening, than to enjoy music that is uplifting, amusing and just plain fun? … all in “our own backyard”!

Child Under 12 – Free

Adults – $30.00

Youth 25 & Under – $15.00

Time

April 25, 2026 7:30 pm(GMT+00:00)

Location

St. Andrews United Church

315 Fitzwilliam St, Nanaimo, BC, V9R 3A6

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