ENCHANTED EVENINGS CONCERT SERIES with Kristin Fung and Beats, Blues & Bars

Join us on Friday July 21st from 5:30pm to 10:00pm as we welcome summer and good vibes with funky hip hop, soul & R&B tunes!

Re-imagined during 2022, the Enchanted Evenings Concert Series provides a safe, inclusive, creative space and platform for local BIPOC artists featuring a diverse range of musical genres reflecting the rich cultural mosaic of Vancouver’s arts & culture scene.

What is included in the ticket:

• Admission to the Garden
• A specially curated menu from our friends at A.bento 飯匠
• A delicious dessert provided by Passione Gelato
• Access to a 45-minute musical performance by Kristin Fung starting at 6:15pm
• Access to a 45-minute musical performance by Beats, Blues & Bars starting at 8:15pm
• Know what the future has it store for you with our Fortune Telling Sticks

Kristin Fung, After seven years in Toronto, Vancouverite Kristin Fung’s ferocious, tender, and captivating voice as a vocalist, keyboardist, composer, and improviser traverse landscapes of “soulful grace [and] jazzy joy” (From The Intercom), and funky R&B. Her deeply earnest and uplifting originals evoke self-accompanying piano queens Alicia Keys and Patrice Rushen, showing off her powerhouse lungs and groovy piano chops.

"Transcontinental Crush" (2021) is an outerspacey midtempo ballad and "Why Don't You Dance" is her forthcoming electro-R&B single. A soulful innovator, Fung’s original performances include the TD Music Connected Series (2022), Funk N’ Mink (supported by DowntownVan, 2021), and Vancouver International Jazz Festival (2021).

What started out as a regular jam session in early 2020 between friends Emcee K Ski and Maxi Theophile Talbot evolved into a three-volume project titled Beats, Blues & Bars: a soulful fusion of blues, funk and Hip Hop. This collaboration showcases K Ski’s diverse and thought-provoking lyricism complimented by Maxi’s soulful guitar, punctuated by his powerful vocals.

Based in Vancouver BC, the duo released their first song in 2021 titled Find a Way: Live at Blue Light Studio. The overwhelmingly positive response prompted them to keep creating their unique brand of music, resulting in the release of Volume One of Beats, Blues & Bars on February 22, 2022.

For more information please email us at events@vancouverchinesegarden.com

Supported by Haywood Capital Markets and Giancarlo and Odette Tognetti Foundation, Passione Gelato. Garden bar drinks provided by local distillery Strait and Narrow

Kristin Fung - Wreckless Love (Alicia Keys)

MC Kevin Frost - Story to tell