RELATED: Sarah MacDougall’s new record sounds like scenery She reflects on the world with a sense of wonder that has drawn the eyes and ears of the Canadian music world over the past few years, including garnering nominations just last month for both Songwriter of the Year and Singer/Songwriter Artist or Group of the year at the 19th Annual Independent Music Awards for her latest album, All The Hours I Have Left To Tell You Anything. MacDougall is a tempest of a performer who has shared the stage with the likes of Bruce Cockburn, Cat Empire and Passenger. Schuller says there will be “at least five” concerts in the series, with the first scheduled for Saturday, May 18, when Whitehorse-based, Swedish-born award-winning singer/songwriter Sarah MacDougall comes to town. It was enough, he says, to at least get started.
Schuller got $5,000 from Creative BC – which is the minimum they give out. I guess I have to do it now instead of just talking about it.” “Well, I started talking to people involved in music here and around the Island and everyone was super supportive, and talking to some friends and people in town, it seemed like there was a desire for more shows in town, so when I found out about the grant opportunity through Creative BC, I wrote up and fired off an application to them and figured, if they give me some money, I’ll have to finally do it. So he had a concept, and he had a space in mind in which he could execute it. “I used to play in bands and put on shows down in East Vancouver, and in those days, I would have loved to have a space like that. “As soon as I walked in, I immediately thought, ‘I want to hear bands in here,’” he says. Not long after he had that thought, he attended a performance at the Rivercity Stage for the first time and knew it was a perfect fit for such a project. There’s nothing else going here that fits that niche.” I wanted to see bands and musicians that maybe aren’t big enough to play the Tidemark, but too big to play a coffee shop. “There’s a lot of music that I want to see that just doesn’t come here,” he says.
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Lucas Schuller admits the idea of starting up a new concert series in Campbell River began as a “totally selfish” endeavour.
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