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