Butchart Gardens Summer Festival presents: Nick La Riviere Sextet

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Wednesday, August 19th, 2015
7:30 PM

The Butchart Gardens' summer festival presents the Nick La Riviere Sextet, with unique arrangements, fascinating rhythms and big time fun!

This open-air concert takes place on the Concert Lawn stage. Come sit on a bench, or bring a blanket and sit on the lawn.

The summer entertainment program is part of your general admission ticket.

Composer, arranger, performer, singer, trombonist, band leader, conch shell player, bass player:  Nick La Riviere is already well known in many circles as one of BC’s busiest musicians.  As a sideman, Nick has performed with award winning artists of many genres – Michael Kaeshammer, Nikki Yanofsky, The Temptations, Adonis Puentes, The Paperboys, to name a few.  He regularly plays R&B, folk, funk, latin, klezmer, jazz, pop; pretty much everything.

Nick’s musical travels have taken him all over Canada, the USA, and as far as Germany, Switzerland, England, Ireland, and more. In between all this, he teaches a 16 piece R&B band, leads a few bands of his own, and performs often on a nightly basis.

With the release of his new album, Another Time Around, Nick prepares to take the musical world by storm with his own unique brand of genre-bending music. Every song on the album is original, with a blend of influences ranging from Sam Cooke to Jamiroquai to Ben Folds to Paul Simon. The album features a dizzying array of tempos, styles, and unexpected twists – all while driving forward with a cohesive unified sound. This is the album for everyone who likes variety in a performance – versatile musicians who can go from playing a heavy rock number right to a dynamic 12/8 ballad, or a catchy classic R&B style sing along.