Join the Vernon Community Arts Centre for an afternoon of celebration, and appreciation of YOU, our incredible community.

From Noon-5pm on Saturday, December 17, 2022, we will have fun activities for all ages to enjoy, including:

Food Trucks
Live Musical Entertainment
Kid’s Activities
Live Art Demonstrations (Raku, Chainsaw, Painting)
Free hot chocolate bar
Access to Artsolutely’s annual sale with over 10,000 handcrafted items by North Okanagan Artisans
Prize Draw

FREE TO ALL!! All ages welcome!

Kelowna based guitarist, Sean Bray brings his Peach Band to the Vernon Jazz Club. The band includes some of the Okanagan Valley's best jazz musicians: Loni Moger on guitar, David Mihal on drums and Bernie Addington on bass.

According to an American music publication review of the bands recent CD, the band is, “ A real honest hybrid of instrumental Americana roots with a jazz improv sensibility. Memorable, accessible melodies with beautiful harmony complete with twist and turns in the road.“

Kelowna based guitarist, Sean Bray brings his Peach Band to the Vernon Jazz Club. The band includes some of the Okanagan Valley's best jazz musicians: Loni Moger on guitar, David Mihal on drums and Bernie Addington on bass.

According to an American music publication review of the bands recent CD, the band is, “ A real honest hybrid of instrumental Americana roots with a jazz improv sensibility. Memorable, accessible melodies with beautiful harmony complete with twist and turns in the road.“

Enjoy a glass of wine, delicious charcuterie boards and sweets, and make a delightful Christmas craft to take home (or to gift!) using a teacup from our events collection.

Bring the whole family to celebrate the festive season with music of comfort and joy! The consummate entertainer, Ken Lavigne will charm his way into your hearts with his lyric tenor voice, bringing warmth and life to favourite seasonal selections. Augmented by special appearances by local childrens' choirs, this will be the perfect way to enjoy the holiday season.

Bring the whole family to celebrate the festive season with music of comfort and joy! The consummate entertainer, Ken Lavigne will charm his way into your hearts with his lyric tenor voice, bringing warmth and life to favourite seasonal selections. Augmented by special appearances by local childrens' choirs, this will be the perfect way to enjoy the holiday season.

The Vernon Jazz Club is ready to ring in the New Year, once again, with blues musician, Sherman Doucette.  There is only one Tank in the blues world – the real deal and has the scars and badges to prove it. A former thirty year veteran of the Vancouver music scene – Yale Hotel host & house band for several years a very colorful past sharing the stage with blues legends such as John Lee Hooker / Albert Collins / Long John Baldry & many more. A soulful singer – harmonica virtuoso – with a hot new band and a tank full of energy mixing blues classics and original songs with the passion and conviction few can deliver – any one who has seen him perform will agree he puts on an unforgettable show.

The Vernon Jazz Club is ready to ring in the New Year, once again, with blues musician, Sherman Doucette.  There is only one Tank in the blues world – the real deal and has the scars and badges to prove it. A former thirty year veteran of the Vancouver music scene – Yale Hotel host & house band for several years a very colorful past sharing the stage with blues legends such as John Lee Hooker / Albert Collins / Long John Baldry & many more. A soulful singer – harmonica virtuoso – with a hot new band and a tank full of energy mixing blues classics and original songs with the passion and conviction few can deliver – any one who has seen him perform will agree he puts on an unforgettable show.

Songs of Love and Springtime - Songs of Nature

Spring: the season of Nature’s awakening, and the season of love for all mortal beings!  AURA Chamber Choir celebrates this “amorous and fair season” with Songs of Nature, a potpourri of European choral music that spans five centuries. 

The title of our concert is taken from a set of partsongs by Czech composer Antonin Dvorak that celebrates the wondrous beauty and spirituality of the natural world.  AURA will perform three selections from this set, and four of his Six Moravian Lyrics, a lighthearted but touching glimpse of village romance.  Both sets will be performed in English. 

The program’s featured work is by Dvorak’s greatest fan and booster, Johannes Brahms: the Liebeslieder Waltzer (Lovesong Waltzes), op. 52.  In this set for mixed chorus and piano four hands, Brahms brilliantly pours the passion of the Gypsy musicians he heard in Viennese cafes into the vessel of the waltz and brews a drink that burns with the intoxication of love in all its forms: blissful and sweet, desolate and bitter, and so much more besides.  At the keyboard we have AURA’s award-winning pianist Marjorie Close and special guest Terry Logan, noted voice teacher and choir director in her own right.