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April 26, 2025: Suzie Vinnick with opener Ollee Owens.

The Nick will be closing off our 2024/25 season with Suzie Vinnick, a Canadian blues legend who is equally at ease in the folk and roots worlds, not to mention gospel and rockabilly. A Saskatoon native transplanted to the Niagara Region of Ontario, Suzie is the proud owner of a gorgeous voice, prodigious guitar and bass chops, and an engagingly candid performance style. Her career has seen triumph after triumph. She’s has won 12 Maple Blues Awards (she has been nominated for 21 so far!), won the 2011 Canadian Folk Music Award for Contemporary Vocalist of the Year and is a three-time Juno nominee. Suzie achieved finalist status in the Solo/Duo Category at the 2013 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN; received the 2012 CBC Saturday Night Blues Great Canadian Blues Award and the 2012 Sirius XM Canada Blues Artist of the Year. Suzie has toured nationally with Downchild, Stuart McLean’s The Vinyl Café and the John McDermott Band, and performed for Canadian Peacekeepers in Bosnia and the Persian Gulf.

Watch Suzie Vinnick’s live performance of her song Happy As Hell.

Calgary-based Ollee Owens has been described as a musical force of nature: she has a lyrical mastery that speaks on all of life’s moments, and a dynamic voice that reveals a well-travelled soul. Ollee combines burning intensity with elegant grace and skilled composure, wrapped in an electrifying blues-rock veneer. Her performance is an emotionally charged musical experience that creates a lasting connection. Ollee has played stages across Alberta and has performed with the likes of Hello Darlins, Matt Anderson and Dawn Tyler Watson. She has taken home first place in the Lyrics/Poetry category at the Women’s Freedom Song Contest for her powerful, Still in Pieces. In October 2024, she released Nowhere to Hide, an album that teems with stylish, sophisticated jewels mined from blues, rock, and soul. 

Watch the official video of Some Days from Ollee’s album Nowhere to Hide.

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Sept 27: Over The Moon
Oct 25: Steve Dawson
Nov 22: Quote The Raven
Jan 24: Sarah Jane Scouten
Feb 21: John Wort Hannam
Mar 21: Boreal
Apr 18: The Lonesome Ace Stringband

Visit our 2025 – 2026 Season page for performer photos, bios and music videos.

2025 – 2026 Season Tickets are on sale now!

Nick concerts are held at the Crescent Heights Community Hall, 1101 2nd St. N.W. Doors open at 7:00, showtime is 7:30.

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March 22, 2025 – Andrew Collins Trio with opener Backyard Betties.

***There will be tickets available at the door for tonight’s concerts***

Andrew Collins does it all. He plays the mandolin, fiddle, guitar, mandola and mandocello. He composes, produces, arranges, writes and teaches across multiple genres, including a popular collision of folk, jazz, bluegrass, celtic, and classical. He co-founded the Creaking Tree String Quartet, the Foggy Hogtown Boys and, more recently, his namesake Trio. He and his various ensembles have had five Juno nominations and seven Canadian Folk Music Awards. His Trio-mates are fellow string guru Mike Mezzatesta, whose versatility shines through on guitar, mandolin, fiddle and mandola, and James McEleney, who holds it down on bass, mandocello and vocals. Showcasing a dizzying number of styles and instruments on stage, the Trio appear to live by the old adage, “idle hands are the devil’s workshop”, likely keeping them just ahead of his grasp. Bending and blending genres, these musical shape shifters land somewhere between the re-imagined worlds of Béla Fleck and Newgrass invader, David Grisman.

Watch the Andrew Collins perform their official video I Don’t Know (But I Like It).

Calgary’s Backyard Betties offer an authentic folk/americana style performance. The band engages audiences with Nancy Laberge’s witty banter and heartfelt original songs, the high-energy background vocals of Pip Hazell, the vocal-harmony and driving beats of Sarah Nielsen, and the captivating lead guitar of Mark Cassano. Together, they skillfully communicate personal experiences of love, life, and loss through their music, creating a genuine and relatable connection with their listeners. In addition to their musical endeavors, Nancy and Pip actively support aspiring songwriters through Write On! The Songwriting Experience, the volunteer-driven program that showcased some of its talented performers last year at the Nick.

Listen to Backyard Betties perform their song The High, which won the 2024 YYC Music Folk Recording of the Year.

A.D. Peter May will announce our 2025-2026 confirmed headliners at this concert. Season Tickets will go on sale as of this date.

Visit our 2024-2025 Season page for dates, photos, bios and videos of our upcoming headliners. 

March 22:  Andrew Collins Trio with opener Backyard Betties.

April 26: Suzie Vinnick with opener Ollee Owens.

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Nick concerts are held at the Crescent Heights Community Hall, 1101 2nd St. N.W. Doors open at 7:00, showtime is 7:30.

We send out regular email bulletins about our upcoming performances.  To subscribe click here:    SUBSCRIBE NICK EMAILS

Experience Calgary LIVE. Visit yycwhatson.ca for arts and culture listings.

February 22: Kinjo & Young with openers Linden Conroy and Ben Tizzard.

***There will be tickets available at the door for tonight’s concerts.***

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For decades, Calgary’s own Jory Kinjo and Aaron Young have wowed audiences around the world. Now they’re uniting their talents into one project, the aptly named Kinjo & Young. Jory Kinjo brings a unique history to his music and draws from his experiences playing and performing soul, ska, reggae and rhythm & blues all over the world. He’s played with bands including the Mocking Shadows and Planet Smashers, and he’s appeared with a wide array of artists from UB40 to South African jazz legend Hugh Masekela to Ziggy Marley. Aaron Young, by the time he was just 23 years old, had already produced, arranged and performed on over 15 albums. In the last 30 years he’s produced and/or played on over 180 albums and played on over 7,500 live stage performances spanning across the globe. Don’t miss this chance to see two legends together on one stage!

Check out Kinjo & Young’s eclectic talents on their Classic Covers Mashup.

Calgary-based guitarists and songwriters Linden Conroy and Ben Tizzard have been fixtures of the local music scene for many years. Individually, Linden and Ben are well-rounded freelance musicians with their own unique experiences, accolades and musical styles. Among their many accomplishments, Linden has performed with The Marcus Trummer Band since he was 14 years old, while Ben was a finalist in the Stampede Talent Show and performed as the guitarist in the country musical May We All. However, when they come together as a duo, their musical relationship is seamless. Ben’s jazz and folk background lends itself to intricate fingerpicking and delicate nuances, while Linden’s experience in country and blues adds depth and soul to their sound. Both artists are committed to their craft, always striving to push the boundaries of what is possible with the guitar.

Listen to Linden and Ben’s song Lochness Monster, from their 2024 recording Just Out of Sight:

Visit our 2024-2025 Season page for dates, photos, bios and videos of our upcoming headliners. 

March 22:  Andrew Collins Trio with opener Backyard Betties.

April 26: Suzie Vinnick with opener Ollee Owens.

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January 25, 2025: Cara Luft with opener Emily Triggs *** SOLD OUT ! ***

February 22, 2025: Kinjo & Young with opener Linden Conroy and Ben Tizzard.

March 22, 2025 – Andrew Collins Trio with opener Backyard Betties.

April 26, 2025: Suzie Vinnick with opener Ollee Owens.

Season Tickets are no longer available.

Visit our 2024-2025 Season page for dates, photos, bios and videos of our upcoming headliners. 

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Advance Tickets for our four 2025 concerts are on sale now.

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November 23, 2024: AV & the Inner City with opener Mark Perry

If you were fortunate enough to catch AV & the Inner City’s performance at last year’s Calgary Folk Music Festival, you know this all-female soul/roots ensemble is something special. The group is made up of band leader and multi award-winning singer-songwriter AV (Ann Vriend), along with Debbie Houle, Johanna Alleyne, Crystal Eyo, Alenka Lundell, and Jenn Dahlen. They came together during the COVID shutdown, when AV hosted and performed nearly 60 free concerts on her front porch in her inner-city Edmonton neighbourhood. In June of 2021, AV asked the group of singers that had been singing so often alongside her if they would be interested in forming an actual official, rehearsed act. They responded with an emphatic “YES!” – and AV & the Inner City was born. Since then they’ve been invited to perform at venues and festivals across the country, including the Edmonton Folk Music Festival, where they were awarded an Emerging Artist Award. They released their first single, Low & Lowly in February 2024.

Watch AV & The Inner City’s official video for their song Nobody Is You.

The Prince George Citizen newspaper puts Smithers, B.C.-based Mark Perry in some pretty impressive company: “New Jersey has Springsteen, New York has Billy Joel, northern BC has Mark Perry. These are the storytellers of their times and places.” Mark has been writing, recording and performing since the mid-1990s, when he made his first album with Roy Forbes and toured with Connie Kaldor. With over 200 songs recorded, he has a huge repertoire of contemplative and lively tunes to suit his audience, from dirt road ballads to river-rising frolics. He takes us into rural Canada, the spirit of its people, the power of its landscapes and the impacts of some unique historic events. He draws us in to reflect and to laugh at ourselves, connecting us from coast to coast. Mark will be making his fifth appearance at the Nick.

Check out Mark’s song Northbound in his studio session sampler.

2024-2025 Season Tickets!

2024-2025 Season Tickets are stil available!

Nov 23:       AV and the Inner City with opener Mark Perry
Jan 25:        Cara Luft with opener Emily Triggs
Feb 22:        Kinjo and Young with opener Linden Conroy and Ben Tizzard
Mar 22:       The Andrew Collins Trio with opener Backyard Betties
Apr 26:        Suzie Vinnick with opener Ollee Owens

Season Tickets now cost $140.00 for five concerts.

Send an Etransfer to <info@thenick.ca>.  Please ensure you include your mailing address and phone number.

Your Season Tickets will be sent to you by Canada Post.

Visit our 2024-2025 Season page for dates, photos, bios and videos of our upcoming headliners. 

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Advance Tickets for our four 2025 concerts will go on sale on November 1.

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