2025-2026 Season Tickets

Posted on May 8, 2025 by VicB

2025-2026 Nick Headliners

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!

Season Tickets cost $196.00 for seven concerts.

Season Tickets allow for advance admission for seating from 6:50 to 7:00. After 7:00, we ask Season Ticket holders to join the Advance Ticket line.

Season Tickets are transferable if you cannot attend a concert.

In the event of a concert cancellation, Season Ticket holders will be reimbursed if we are unable to fill the date with an alternate performer.

Purchasing a Season Ticket by Canada Post

Send a cheque for $196.00 per ticket, made out to The Acoustic Music Society, post-dated to September 1 to:

The Acoustic Music Society
P.O. Box 64244 Thorncliffe PO Calgary AB T2K 6J7
Please include your mailing address, phone # and email.

Purchasing a Season Ticket by E-transfer

Send an E-transfer for $196.00 per ticket to <info@thenick.ca> Please ensure you include your mailing address and phone number.

Purchased Season Tickets will be mailed out at the beginning of September.

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.

April 26 – soundcheck photos

Posted on April 27, 2025 by VicB

April 26 – Suzie Vinnick and Ollee Owens

Posted on March 23, 2025 by VicB

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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.

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.

March 22 – soundcheck photos

Posted on March 23, 2025 by VicB

March 22 – The Andrew Collins Trio and Backyard Betties

Posted on February 23, 2025 by VicB

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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 – soundcheck photos

Posted on February 23, 2025 by VicB

February 22 Headliners – Kinjo and Young

Posted on January 28, 2025 by VicB

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.

BUY ADVANCE TICKETS AT SHOWPASS

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