Contemporary

London City Roots is a brand new Showcase Tour highlighting the incredible artistic talent that is on the rise in Canada's one & only UNESCO City of Music. A can't miss historic show featuring the future of music in Canada showcasing some of the top award winning talent from all genres in the Forest City.

You've never heard violin like this! Inspiring audiences across North America, from Burning Man and Electric Forest to TED talks.

Friday, July 12
7:30pm - Doors Open
8:00pm - Concert begins (duration roughly 75 minutes)

Tickets only $39 available here (no additional fees)

All ages welcome! Children 12 and under are free.
This is an indoor, seated show.

About Dixon's Violin: You've never heard violin like this! The world's premier visionary violinist, Dixon's life mission is to inspire people - and he has done so at over 1,000 concerts across North America, including giving four TED talks/performances, over ten years at Burning Man and Electric Forest, plus radio, TV, and film appearances. A former technology leader and symphony violinist, Dixon walked away from a distinguished career to follow his dream full-time, and invented a whole new music genre. Dixon now improvises on a 5-string electric violin with a looping system he developed to create an all-live one-man symphony, guided by his remarkable personal story of life transformation. https://dixonsviolin.com "The violinist that is changing the world” - Preserve the Future "Standing ovation...It's no surprise that Dixon was voted the best of the evening" - Examiner"Not your ordinary violinist" - Fox 2 News"It's quite an accomplishment for a man who possibly invented a new genre on his violin" - City Pulse"One in particular, Dixon's Violin, blew minds with a folksy, heartfelt set, performed entirely by one man and one electric violin." - Examiner

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MURRAY McLAUCHLAN

          ...HOURGLASS

Murray McLauchlan is one of Canada’s most highly regarded singer/songwriters, and with good cause. Over a 50-year career, he has released 20 albums and been awarded 11 Junos. His songs Farmer’s Song, Down by the Henry Moore, Whispering Rain and Sweeping the Spotlight Away are now considered Canadian standards. Murray is also a painter, an author, an actor, a radio host; he's been bestowed an Honourary Doctor of Laws and appointed to The Order of Canada. That’s quite a ride. For many years Murray’s touring had been restricted to Lunch At Allen's, whose members also include Ian Thomas, Marc Jordan and Cindy Church. But with the release  of his critically acclaimed  Hourglass, he’s back on the road treating concert goers to a seamless blend of old and new.

Here’s what he has to say: “As a songwriter I know that it's not enough to sit in your kitchen and write. Your songs need to be heard. Music is a communicative art and if it isn't brought in front of people there is no way to tell if that end has been met. I like to think of a concert tour as a kind of roving gallery to test your art and your ideas. I try to do my very best to make it worthwhile for folks to be there and to perhaps look at things in a new way when they leave.”

And this, in a nutshell, is the Murray McLauchlan concert experience.

" It might have been a large theatre but it felt like a group of friends sitting in a living room listening to tales from the son who hit the road to share his music ... special, memorable, warm and, quite simply, Murray McLauchlan at his best."  - Kamloops This Week

BEN CAPLAN is a Canadian singer-songwriter and entertainer known for his energetic live shows and award-winning studio recordings. Perpetually on tour since 2011, Ben has played nearly 2000 concerts in 28 countries in that time. His 2018 project Old Stock was both an album and a highly-acclaimed musical theatre production which has toured the world since 2017, including a 7-week Off-Broadway run which garnered 6 Drama Desk Award nominations, a NYTimes Critic’s Pick, and numerous other international accolades.

His newest project, Hold On!,  is a diverse cycle of songs with a full new band of collaborators. Blending old world folk traditions with electronic instruments and sound design, Ben Caplan and the band have created a futuristic nostalgia with one foot in the past and the other stretched across the abyss of the end of the world. The show, with its energetic frenzy and moments of unexpected tenderness, lives somewhere in the space between theatre and music. It’s a kind of cabaret to mourn and celebrate the end of the world.