Acrpost: A Project of the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres

Event Description

JOY KILLS SORROW returns to Victoria with a new CD and FISH & BIRD. We are lucky to add this last minute show, Tuesday, June11. Joy Kills Sorrow is as good as it gets, bringing together virtuoso musicians who share a love of American roots music. Beaton, who studied cello at Berklee College of Music, won “Young Performer of the Year” at the Canadian Folk Music Awards in 2008. Arcara took first place in the National Flat Pick Guitar contest at the Walnut Valley Festival in 2006. Jolliff, who was Berklee’s first full-scholarship mandolin student, won first place in the National Mandolin Championship in 2012. Corbett teaches banjo at Berklee College of Music. Guigueno, a British Columbia native, graduated with the President’s Award for the Creative and Performing Arts from Canada’s... more...