The Alberta Ballet will perform scenes from Joni Mitchell's "Fiddle and Drum" collaboration. (Alberta Ballet)Grammy-winner Sarah McLachlan will headline the Vancouver 2010 one-year countdown concert on Feb. 12, 2009.
The singer/songwriter is the marquee attraction at the 2009 Cultural Olympiad's highest-profile event. McLachlan, who lives in Vancouver, will be joined on the Queen Elizabeth Theatre bill by Halifax singer/songwriter Joel Plaskett and Toronto’s violinist Adrian Anantawan. Alberta Ballet will perform part of the Joni Mitchell-penned "Fiddle and Drum" collaboration with choreographer Jean Grand-Maitre.
Toronto’s Broken Social Scene and Calgary’s Tegan and Sara share the Orpheum Theatre stage Feb. 6. Tickets for both concerts are on sale Saturday.
The $2.5 million 2009 Cultural Olympiad runs Feb. 1-March 21, 2009 and features 400 performances and exhibitions from Metro Vancouver to Pemberton. It’s the second of three annual festivals leading up to a 60-day bash in 2010.
“This is not a frill for VANOC or for the Olympic movement,” said VANOC Calgary's Tegan and Sara will perform at the Orpheum Theatre on Feb. 6. (Tegan and Sara)Vice President Burke Taylor. “Culture, being the second pillar of the Olympic movement, is an essential part of the Games and of the Games experience.”
The 2009 edition heralds the launch of the Cultural Olympiad Digital Edition (CODE). Canadians will be invited to submit photos and text to the national online collage project.
The Tuesday news conference at VANOC headquarters in East Vancouver began with an aerial ballet by four members of Aeriosa Dance accompanied by flautists from Redpath Music. The city-owned building was site of the climax of the 2005-lensed Al Pacino thriller "88 Minutes."
With reporting from
Bob Mackin in Vancouver.
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