Events in the Village
11th Annual Evenings in Edgemont
As the better weather awaits us, so do our our much anticipated music concerts. Join us as Edgemont Village celebrates summer with Evenings in Edgemont, our Friday night outdoor music concert series.
This annual event is brought to you by the Edgemont Village Business & Professional Association, the District of North Vancouver, the North Vancouver Recreation Commission and with the listed Edgemont Village merchant sponsors who help to defray the costs of these events.
Community interest just keeps on growing for this popular venue. As soon as the weather begins to warm, we start to get inquiries from bands hoping to perform and from our residents, who can’t wait for the performances to start.
As always we carefully select bands to bring vibrant, diverse and stimulating music to the neighborhood to engage and inform you, but also to enhance your musical horizons and mostly to just enjoy. Something for every musical taste. Exuberant Swing. Foot stompin’ country. Standards swung hard. Gospel, Soul, and for Beatlemaniacs everywhere, at last, The Fab Fourever.
As promised last year, on July 24th we will hold our 1st ever Dancing in the Street, family street dance, with Backbeat for tunes. See the event posting for details. Remember to practice your dancing at any of the concert nights!
To help those with two left feet, or just too shy, we have planned a return visit of our professional dancers for some of our evenings to provide us with advice, lessons and some necessary bravado… so watch for them.
As always — with our community partner, the North Vancouver Community Arts Council — we can expect to be dazzled and bewitched by the Wild Lights Lantern Festival and Fire Performances by Public Dreams on our last evening (August 21st) following this year’s final band. These evenings attract roughly 5000 people, many of them children who, after making lanterns before or during the event, are able to join the parade and walk through the Village with the musicians and costumed performers from Public Dreams. If you are able to attend only one concert this summer, be sure to bring your children or grandchildren for this wondrous evening!
We look forward to seeing you all here this summer for our fantastic community concerts. Can there be a better to way to spend an evening than in the company of your neighbours, with music soaring through the air of this magical setting?
Please remember to check the site for Friday night weather forecasts and possible last minute rainout cancellations. Otherwise, don’t forget your lawn chairs and your dancing shoes!
To see photos from our concerts/ events and other community photos, visit our Edgemont Village group on Flickr and our village archives.Evenings in Edgemont: 2009 Schedule
7 to 9pm, every Friday evening throughout July and August
July 3rd · La Candela (Cuban Dance Music)
Hosts · The Edgemont Village Business and Professional Association
July 10th · Cousin Harley / (Rockabilly & Western Swing)
Sponsors · Delany’s Coffee House; Digby Leigh & Co.; Shirley Clarke Real Estate
July 17th · Fab Fourever (Beatlemania)
Sponsors ·Highland Optical; The Bakehouse; TD Canada Trust
July 24th ·*Dancing In The Street*, family street dance
Backbeat (Irrepressible Dance Tunes)
Sponsors · BMO; Zig Zag; Cobs Bread
July 31st · Gospel Giants (Sweet Soul Sound, Motown)
Sponsors · Trims; Super Valu; HSBC
August 7th ·The Sweetpea Swing Band (Swing Time Tunes)
Sponsors · Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory; Starbucks; Pharmasave
August 15th · Smith & Jones (Foot Stompin’ Country)
Sponsors · GardenWorks; Westland Insurance; Highlands Church
August 21st · Jake & Elwood’s Blues Brothers Revue (Tom Arntzen, High Energy R & B)
Sponsors · Giftworks; BC Playthings; Kidsbooks
Grand Finale! · North Vancouver Community Arts Council’s Wild Lights Lantern Festival, with Fire Performances by Public Dreams