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Join us for an afternoon of fabulously festive and absolutely free concerts in the Festival's Longhouse and the Dundarave Nativity Pavilion. There's no Christmas tree decorating party like it, as hundreds of hands make light work of bringing the light of the season to spectacular Dundarave Beach and Dundarave Village. Bearing in mind this is the season of surprises, here's a taste of what you and everyone you love will find at the Dundarave Christmas Fair. Magic happens at dusk with the official lighting of the Festival's Christmas tree forest, the only one like it in coastal British Columbia.
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Alisha Pillay
Making her debut to the Dundarave Festival of Lights, Alisha Pillay has opened for Maya Angelou, Jay Sean and many others. She launched her career as a singer/songwriter with David Foster, winning his "Opportunity of a Lifetime" competition. Her first single, "Convicted", was a Top 40 smash which took Canada by storm. Alisha's set to rock the start to your season in the Festival Longhouse.
West Vancouver Youth Band
The official youth band of West Vancouver returns to bring to Dundarave Beach the flash and beat of Christmas as only a performance band can. Eighty-one years young, the West Vancouver Youth Band has claimed its pride of place at the heart of our community, bringing the power of music to lift spirits, change lives and mark our great moments together.
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There's no sound this side of the Great White Way to rival the joy, heart and soaring power of the North Shore's own Burstin With Broadway. Bringing almost a hundred voices to the Festival Longhouse, Burstin With Broadway returns to Dundarave Beach with the music that made Broadway legendary. Move over, Glee: this is the show choir to stir the soul.
The Hot Mammas
The Hot Mammas give voice through music to the absolute joy of being alive. Each "Mamma" has the power by herself to bring new energy to timeless songs. Together, their harmonies and the love they have for their audiences -- kids always move to the front of the crowd -- will open a whole new love of the season and, in their words, "fill your spirit with the joy of song".
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The Sarah McLachlan School of Music
Featuring:
École Pauline Johnson's Choir, Irwin Park School Choir, Collingwood School Choir
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Three Epic Sides of Morris Dancers: Tiddley Cove Morris, Bowen Island Black Sheep, and Bowen Island Black Lambs
Tap into the heart of the Dundarave Festival of Lights and you'll find one of the most ancient traditions of the British Christmas, the pulse of the season measured out in the hammer of sticks and drums, the lilt of a tin whistle and accordion. With mummery plays and songs that date back to the days when Shakespeare was a tadpole, and dances that may have greeted the first days of Stonehenge, the Dundarave Festival is proud to be in the fond embrace of the Ghost of Christmas Past -- alive and kicking in the passion and joy of Tiddley Cove Morris, the Bowen Island Black Sheep and, as far as we know, Canada's only side of Morris dancing kids, the Bowen Island Black Lambs. (Here's an insiders' tip: head up to Dundarave Village for some stunning Morris moments outdoors and in the warmth of the Red Lion.)
