Music on Main

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Welcome to Music on Main, Vancouver’s “highly popular series that’s as musically adventurous as it is socially gregarious” (The Georgia Straight)

Latest...

If you missed the sold-out concert One Night Stand: Jocelyn Morlock, you can still read an interview with our Composer In Residence in The Vancouver Sun.

Ever wondered how grand pianos get deliverd to venues? Check out this video of a Steinway arriving at the Cellar for Robert Silverman: The Brahms Project.

Music on Main continues The Composer Essay Project with "Ana Sokolovic: Made in Canada (sort of)" by Aaron Gervais.

"Brilliant ideas are what Vancouver's Modulus Festival is all about," (Georgia Straight) with its program that "spanned the range of human experience." (Huffington Post)

2012 2013 Season

This season, Music on Main expands with more concerts at Heritage Hall and the Cellar Restaurant & Jazz Club and to new venues around Metro Vancouver.

For complete chronological listings of concerts, click here.

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Launched to critical acclaim in 2006, Vancouver's Music on Main is dedicated to great music in casual but stimulating environments, with top-flight musicians, an ear for contemporary music, and refreshing concert formats.

Now in its seventh season, Music on Main has produced more than 150 concerts featuring nearly 400 musicians and close to 40 world premieres at Heritage Hall on Main Street and at the Cellar Restaurant and Jazz Club in Kitsilano.

From Baroque to Post-Folk, from Brahms sonatas to electronic improv, from hardcore Modernism to hard-driving Minimalism, Music on Main is interested in great music, whatever we might call it.

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upcoming events

Robert Silverman: The Brahms Project | Saturday, May 25, 2013
Special Events

Part three of pianist Robert Silverman's Brahms series concludes with a spectacular concert at the Kay Meek Centre's intimate Studio Theatre. The concert coincides with Robert Silverman's birthday, and he's invited special guests, the Lafayette String Quartet, to join in the celebration.

Bhangra on Main | Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Main Series

Music on Main and the Vancouver International Bhamgra Celebration join forces for this year's HSBC City of Bhangra. Get up and close and personal with critically acclaimed artists D-Sarb and Sunil Kalyan in this intimate concert at Heritage Hall.

2012/2013 Season Listing | 2012/2013 Season
Special Events

A complete chronological listing of Music on Main's 2012/2013 Season.