Australian indie-folk singer-songwriter Kim Yang's first tour to Canada! Kim will join Canada's folk-pop artist Tennyson King to provide an unforgettable musical evening at Char's Landing.

JADE MUSIC FEST Featured Artists Come To Courtenay's Old Church Theatre (Elevating Chinese Music In Canada and Around the World) 6:30pm Door Opens 7pm Show Starts

Taiwanese-Australian songstress Kim Yang is coming to Canada for Vancouver's JADE MUSIC FEST, an annual music event which aims to make Vancouver the North American hub for Chinese-language music through the elevation of underrepresented Sinophone artists in BC. Both Artists will be performing in English and in their Native languages. “WE decided it would be exciting to try to bring some of the modern flavour of the JADE MUSIC FEST to Courtenay's Old Church Theatre” says Promoter Doug Cox, “and Kim agreed to come do a double bill with Vancouver's Tennyson King, who was a popular featured performer at this summer's VI MusicFest.” Come watch these two young performers weave their magic through story and song at Courtenay's intimate Old Church Theatre!

Free entry, register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc_pB2R7wr5WFh7kOoKW2sxLyykANZlBTiUvd5g-kRGVIxMkw/viewform

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