Search results
Search Results
Displaying (1 - 3 of 3)
- Title
- Jazz Town - Interview with Patricia Kirby:
- Contributor(s)
- Kirby, Patricia (Interviewee)
- Type of Resource
- sound recording-nonmusical
- Date Created
- 2017-07-22
- Language
- English
- Description
- Patricia Kirby, music fan, talks about Vancouver's jazz venues. Recorded at The Drum Is Calling Festival.
- Extent
- 00:01:15
- Subject(s)
- Jazz, Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Hotel Georgia, Music, Creative community
- Location(s)
- Downtown
- Time Period
- 2010s
- Collection
- Story City
- Title
- Pipe fitting Musician from Jamaica - Interview with Rudy Lyons
- Contributor(s)
- Lyons, Rudy (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
- Type of Resource
- sound recording-nonmusical
- Date Created
- 1974-03-16
- Language
- English
- Description
- Rudy, a musician with ties to Jamaica, speaks about his experiences in Vancouver during the 30s and the 60s through to the 80s in the nightclubs as well as his time working as a steamfitter.
- Extent
- 00:32:27, 00:32:27
- Subject(s)
- Musicians, Nightclubs, Jazz, Family, Pipe fitters
- Location(s)
- Downtown
- Time Period
- 1930s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
- Collection
- Carnegie Stories
- Title
- Wartime Entertainment - Interview with Lola Aceman Pawer:
- Contributor(s)
- Pawer, Lola (Aceman) (Interviewee)
- Type of Resource
- sound recording-nonmusical
- Date Created
- 2017-04-19
- Language
- English
- Description
- Lola Pawer's father Jack Aceman, along with her uncle Hymie Singer, ran several Vancouver music and theatre hot spots, including the Avon Theatre and the Starlit Gardens, the latter located in Coal Harbour off Georgia and Denman. Lola fondly recollects the big band age.
- Extent
- 00:03:24
- Subject(s)
- Starlight Gardens (Vancouver, B.C.), Big bands, Jazz, Creative community
- Location(s)
- Downtown
- Time Period
- 1940s, 1950s
- Collection
- Story City