In Search of Lost Venues

Adrienne LaBelle has played in The Barcelona Chair, Aunts and Uncles, Movieland, Garbage Dreams, Supermoon, Lazy Bear. Venues visited: Red Gate (855 East Hastings), 121 Heatley, Hoko’s (362 Powell), The Astoria (769 E Hastings), Spirit Vegetable studio (876 Cordova Diversion), Ironworks Studio, the Zoo Zhop (223 Main Street), Chapel Arts (305 Dunlevy Other venues mentioned: La Casa del Artista, Toast Collective, the Cobalt, Little Mountain, Railway Club, Red Cat Records, The Waldorf, Pat's Pub Also

Chris Alscher AKA Chris-A-Riffic played with the band They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? and has performed as a solo artist for several decades. He is a radio host on CiTR, the University of British Columbia radio station, with his show Parts Unknown which has been on the air for over two decades. We walk down Main Street from 29th avenue to 22nd avenue, discussing Little Mountain Gallery, Chroma Books, Blim and more. Chroma Books was a bookstore upstairs at 4424 Main Street which opened in 2002 and

Welcome to In Search of Lost Venues, where I walk through a neighbourhood with one or more Vancouver musicians, talking about the sites and locations of their favourite venues, places where significant events occurred, both personal and artistic.   In this season you will hear conversations with: Chris-a-Riffic about Little Mountain Studios and other venues on Main Street Adrienne LaBelle about the second Red Gate, Hoko's, the Zoo Zhop and more Nicholas Krgovich about the Sugar Refinery, Ms T's