Music on Main presents the 11th Annual Modulus Festival featuring invigorating and inspiring live performances at various venues in Vancouver.
Music on Main is back in full festival mode and is thrilled to safely and warmly welcome audiences to listen, together to more great music.
At the 2022 Modulus Festival, immerse yourself in engaging live music, hear performances by legendary composers, and learn and discover something new! Highlights include the return of Nancy Tam and Robyn Jacob’s Double Happiness: Detour This Way, a collection of personal stories of migration from the Chinese diaspora with an art-pop aesthetic. Enjoy three nights of daring sonic exploration at IronFest III –late night concerts curated by Coastal Jazz featuring players from around the world and Modulus musicians. François Houle’s Canadian premiere of The Secret Lives of Colour, makes moving music based on the historical connections between the moods and spirits of colour.
Experience the intoxicating musical poetry of Ayelet Gottlieb’s 13 Lunar Meditations: Summoning the Witches, which explores our relationship with the moon and the effect it has on us. Lose yourself in the lingering beauty of Dory Hayley singing Morton Feldman’s legendary Three Voices. Listen to the music of dreams with Vancouver favourite, Standing Wave. Enter Steven Kazuo Takasugi’s imaginative world of spectacular chaos, as No Hay Banda performs Sideshow, taking audiences on a musical adventure full of absurd tragedy.
Whether you choose to attend one event or many, there’s something new for everyone to discover. Here’s your chance to reconnect with yourself and fellow audience members, so that together you can expand your musical horizons. We can’t think of a better place to experience these captivating moments than at Music on Main’s 2022 Modulus Festival.
Six full days of musical adventure awaits you.
Limited tickets ON SALE NOW at musiconmain.ca.
Tickets from $32 | Students & Arts Workers $18
Featured Events:
NOVEMBER 3-12, 2022
Double Happiness: Detour This Way
LEFT OF MAIN | various dates & times
featuring: Nancy Tam, Robyn Jacob, Emily Cheung, Jasmine Chen, Molly MacKinnon, Kevin
Romain, Emma Postl, and Jeff Gammon
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2022
IronFest III Night One
THE IRONWORKS | 8:30PM
Josh Zubot & Strings
SICK BOSS
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2022
François Houle’s The Secret Lives of Colour
ANNEX | 7:30PM
featuring: Joëlle Léandre, double bass; Alexander Hawkins, piano; Kate Gentile, drums; Hamin Honari, percussion; Gordon Grdina, oud and acoustic guitar; and François Houle, basset clarinet
IronFest III Night Two
THE IRONWORKS | 9:30PM
Feven Kidane (trumpet) and Tony Wilson (guitar)
Eylem Basaldi (violin), Gord Grdina (guitar), and Torsten Müller (bass)
François Houle (clarinet), Alex Hawkins (grand piano), and Kate Gentile (drums)
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb’s 13 Lunar Meditations: Summoning the Witches
THE ROUNDHOUSE | 7:30PM
IronFest III Night Three
THE IRONWORKS | 9:30PM
Jay Clayton (voice), Róisín Adams (grand piano), and Jen Yakamovich (drums)
John Paton (sax), Stéphane Diamantakiou (bass), and Ivan Bamford (drums)
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb (voice), Elisa Thorn (harp), Aram Bajakian (oud), Peggy Lee (cello), and
Hamin Honari (percussion)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2022
Free Family Concert with the BC Chinese Music Ensemble
THE ROUNDHOUSE | 3PM
Dory Hayley sings Morton Feldman’s Three Voices
ANNEX | 7:30PM
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7
Standing Wave Ensemble’s In Dreams
ANNEX | 7:30PM
featuring: Christie Reside, flute; AK Coope, clarinet; Rebecca Whitling, violin; Cristian Markos, cello; Allen Stiles, piano; and Vern Griffiths, percussion
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8
No Hay Banda plays Steven Kazuo Takasugi’s Sideshow
THE ROUNDHOUSE | 7:30PM
featuring: Jeff Stonehouse, flute; Lori Freedman, clarinet; Yves Charuest, alto saxophone; Geneviève Liboiron, violin; Jean René, viola; Émilie Girard-Charest, cello; Daniel Áñez, piano; Noam Bierstone, solo vocalizing percussionist; Gabriel Dufour-Laperrière, electronics; and Steven Kazuo Takasugi, staging
