2024 Sound of Dragon Music Festival

Name: 2024 Sound of Dragon Music Festival
Start: 2024-05-24T20:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-05-24T22:00:00-07:00
Location: Orpheum Annex

Schedule

Fri May 24 2024 at 08:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Orpheum Annex | Vancouver, BC

(Vancouver, BC)—Vancouver’s Sound of Dragon Society presents the 6th annual Sound of Dragon Music Festival in Vancouver from May 23 to 26, 2024. The festival re-defines Chinese music with ground-breaking cross-cultural collaboration through three concerts and free community events. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit soundofdragon.com/festival/2024-festival/.
The festival promotes creativity and innovation. By presenting musicians, ensembles and composers from different ethnicities, nationalities, and musical genres, utilizing unique cross-cultural instrumentations, Sound of Dragon re-defines “Chinese music” and reflects Vancouver’s growing multicultural environment, representing a highly creative music scene.
“The festival offers something for every ear” - CBC TV News
“Exciting reflection of Vancouver’s diversity” - Georgia Straight
Ticketed Events:
1) Friday, May 24, 8:00 pm, The Annex
Anand Avirmed & friends (Mongolian throat singing & horsehead fiddle)
2) Saturday, May 25, 8:00 pm, The Annex
Yang Xue’s Bows & Strings’ Dance (Beijing, China) & Vancouver Erhu Quartet
3) Sunday, May 26, 8:00 pm, The Annex
From Chinese Winds & Percussion to Indonesian Gamelan
Featuring Zhongxi Wu – suona, Charlie Lui – dizi, Tim Chen – sheng,
Hsuan-Ning Huang (Edmonton), Katie Rife, Jonathan Bernard, Dailin Hsieh – percussion
Orchid Ensemble with Sutrisno Hartana & Purwanta
To Purchase Tickets: Early Bird (purchase by May 1, 2024): $19.99 regular, $15 students/seniors/children
From May 2, $25 regular, $19.99 students/seniors/children
Festival Pass for all three concerts: $57 regular, $42 students/seniors/children
Free Sound of Dragon Music Festival Public Events:
1) Sunday, May 12, 2:30 pm, Roundhouse, 181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver, BC
“Song of Joy Music Jam”
Bring any musical instrument and join us at this hands-on “freestyle” music jam party. Musicians of all levels and genres are welcome.
2) Thursday, May 23, 7:00 pm, The Annex
Chinese Percussion Workshop
Huang leads a hands-on workshop on traditional Chinese percussion music. Learn the techniques and languages of various Chinese percussion instruments, such as Chinese opera cymbals, and Chinese opera gongs.
3) Saturday, May 25, 12:00 pm. The Annex,
Yang Xue’s Erhu music
Yang Xue, faculty of Central Conservatory of Music (Beijing), has performed internationally as a soloist on the Chinese violin.
The Sound of Dragon Society preserves ancient traditions of Chinese music and celebrates diversity and creativity in the contemporary applications of this music, resulting from the interaction between musicians of various ethnic and musical backgrounds. By presenting musicians and ensembles from different ethnicities, nationalities, and musical trainings/genres, Sound of Dragon Society re-defines Chinese music and reflects Vancouver’s multicultural environment and a highly creative music scene.
The Sound of Dragon Society operates and presents musical events on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.