Local Salt Spring faves Bassos Rancheros and Andrew Interchill return to the Mateada for a night of Latin and Global grooves.

Always a sell out so get your tix early!

Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm.  

70 capacity, 45 seats: first come, first serve

Meat and veggie pizza served by the slice

$20 advance, $25 at the door

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Landing on the scene in 2009, Kim’s laidback folk style continues to strike a chord across the globe. Playing renowned festivals including Glastonbury Music Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival and South By South West, along with a stack of home grown festivals, Kim’s decade long industry experience spreads far and wide. Raised in the coastal town of Merimbula, Australia, the songwriter has previously been crowned Australia’s National Youth Folk Artist of the Year and nominated for the National Live Music Awards Roots Act of the Year. In 2023, Kim returned with his seventh-studio album Dawn Sounds, highly praised by industry and fans alike. Hitting home runs with singles “Fighter”, “Please Come Home (Feat. Steph Strings) and “Go Try Fall”, Kim wrapped up his biggest regional tour to date before an impressive run of international shows across Europe, the UK and Canada. 2024, thus far, has seen Kim touring Europe alongside his busking buddies, Amistat, his largest headline tour of Canada to date and stand out performances at Edmonton and Mariposa Folk Festivals. He's latest single 'Reflecting' featuring Canadian born, LA based folk singer Emily Brimlow is part of a new album, 'It's Lovely To Have You Here' which will be released on October 11th alongside a 2 month European headline tour.

70 capacity, 45 seats: first come, first serve

Meat and veggie pizza served by the slice

EXPECTED TO SELL OUT. Tickets: $30 advance $30 at the door

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🔥 MONTHLY HIP-HOP NIGHT at the Mateada Yerba Lounge! 🔥

Get ready for the last Saturday of EVERY MONTH starting in March! Doors at 8 PM, DJ Boomtown hosting!

🎤 Open Mic (8-9 PM): MCs, spit your fire! Beatboxers, bring the rhythm! 🎨 Graffiti Artist Needed: Let's create some art! 🕺 Breakdancers welcome: Show us your moves!

DM us to get involved! #hiphop #saltspringisland #openmic #graffiti #breakdance #community #mateada #boomtownsound

70 capacity, 45 seats: first come, first serve

Meat and veggie pizza served by the slice

$10 at the door

Singer, songwriter and musician SARITAH is on a worldwide musical mission to uplift, inspire and activate healing with her uniquely feminine blend of evolutionary reggae and acoustic soul flavours, conscious lyrics and live performances that are a reverent celebration of life. Saritah's heartful songs illuminate truths, singing in a better world and reminding us of who we really are. 

Born in Seoul, South Korea, raised in (and recently relocated home to) Boorloo (Perth), Australia, Saritah is headed to North America this Spring/Summer for a run of shows to celebrate the release of GIFTS, her 4th full-length album. Featuring collaborations with producers in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, California, Portland, Oregon as well as Finland, Spain, France, Nigeria and Australia, GIFTS is a diverse and fresh collection of songs to lift up our hearts and minds. 

The title track, which opens the album, is a call-to-action, encouraging each of us to cultivate and share our unique gifts with a world that desperately needs them. Lyrically, the album journeys on through themes of finding peace, joy, giving thanks for life, slowing down, having faith, overcoming, and cultivating a sense of self-trust along the way. GIFTS is a colourful body of work that will brighten your day, leaving you feeling uplifted, reassured, more hopeful, and less alone.  “A soulful and joyous triumph. I can hear the sun shining through my speakers.” - Alex Kortt, The A&R Department.

Opening act is the legendary Logan Staats:

Logan Staats hails from Six Nations of the Grand River, and has earned a reputation as one of Canada’s cultural tastemakers, a land defender and one of our premiere storytellers. As an artist, he pairs gritty and compelling songwriting with raw, authentic and high energy performances that electrify the audience. Weaving his way through the sounds of Folk, Rock, Roots and Americana music, Staats powerful voice has become a fan favorite across Canada, and around the world.

Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm. 

70 capacity, 45 seats: first come, first serve

Meat and veggie pizza served by the slice

$15 advance, $20 door

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After months of deep and impetuous practice, Salt Spring Island’s new reggae band, the DUB ALCHEMISTS, have finally emerged from their underground laboratory with MERTHER & GOLD!  Playing a mix of old school hits with new generation roots rock reggae, they have found the secret to immortality!  Come enjoy the elixir of life with the DUB ALCHEMISTS!

Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm.  

70 capacity, 45 seats: first come, first serve

Meat and veggie pizza served by the slice

Advance tickets: $15 At the door: $20

BUY TICKETS HERE

🔥 MONTHLY HIP-HOP NIGHT at the Mateada Yerba Lounge! 🔥

Get ready for the last Saturday of EVERY MONTH starting in March! Doors at 8 PM, DJ Boomtown hosting!

🎤 Open Mic (8-9 PM): MCs, spit your fire! Beatboxers, bring the rhythm! 🎨 Graffiti Artist Needed: Let's create some art! 🕺 Breakdancers welcome: Show us your moves!

DM us to get involved! #hiphop #saltspringisland #openmic #graffiti #breakdance #community #mateada #boomtownsound

70 capacity, 45 seats: first come, first serve

Meat and veggie pizza served by the slice

Tickets: $20 at the door

Hailing from Salt Spring Island, Salome Cullen has become known for his detailed songwriting and his authentic stage presence. Combining an expansive taste in Country with an appreciation for all genres, Salome delivers his sound through a quality live show. The producer and multi-instrumentalist has been well recognized as an adept musician, but his storytelling is where we get insight to who Salome is. Songs like “Straw Hat Crown” and “Heaven Gained An Angel Today” talk about the reality of loss and acceptance. While other songs like “What Poison Are You Picking Tonight” are full of energy. If you are the kind of person who sits down and listens to old Willie Nelson records or goes for a drive through town to some John Prine, You will love Salome Cullen.

Tyger Jackson is a singer-songwriter and musician who creates and performs on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples. She offers a blend of folk, country, and indie acoustic sounds, connecting with everyday listeners. Recently, she released her debut album, "Survival of the Weakest," which she will be performing in its entirety.

Elias Balec opening act.

Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm.  

70 capacity, 45 seats: first come, first serve

Meat and veggie pizza served by the slice

$20 advance, $25 at the door

BUY TICKETS HERE

Come down and get your groove on with the legendary SKYWATER, one of our favourite local DJ’s who brings the fun and funk!

Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm.  

70 capacity, 45 seats: first come, first serve

Meat and veggie pizza served by the slice

$15

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Siarimis:

Ballads and Stories spun in the Gaelic Tradition

"Cumberland-based duo Kes Reid and Luke English draw on their Irish and Scottish heritage to explore love, land and loss through folk songs and storytelling. Expect traditional instruments, harmonies, laughter and heartache, leading us back to the beauty of belonging to some old time and place. Siarimis presents traditional folk songs and original compositions alongside traditional stories that illuminate the history and beauty of the Gaelic tradition.

Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm.  

70 capacity, 45 seats: first come, first serve

Meat and veggie pizza served by the slice

$20

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A DOUBLE HEADER ON MAY 8TH. FOLLOWING OH PREY TELL, WE HAVE A SECOND ACT AT 9PM.

Sargeant X Comrade is a Canadian soul music duo from Calgary, Alberta, whose full-length debut album Magic Radio was a long listed nominee for the 2021 Polaris Music Prize. The band was formed in the early 2010s by vocalist Yolanda Sargeant and producer Evgeniy "Comrade"

The band was formed in the early 2010s by vocalist Yolanda Sargeant and producer Evgeniy "Comrade" Bykovets. They released the EP Salvage the Soul in 2014, and followed up with a number of singles before releasing Magic Radio in 2020. The album's single "Romance in Outer Space" features a rap cameo by Kool Keith.

In addition to their Polaris nomination, they received two Western Canadian Music Award nominations in 2021, for Breakout Artist of the Year and Rap & Hip-Hop Artist of the Year.

Sargeant also performed vocals on "Hold Me Up", a 2020 single by producer Hello Moth.

70 capacity, 45 seats: first come, first serve

Meat and veggie pizza served by the slice

$15 advance, $20 door

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Oh Pray Tell is Betty Supple, Sally Titasey and Shayna Jones. Three part harmonies grounded in banjo and stomp-clap-cajon rhythms, carry poetry, stories and spoken word. Their experimental, edge pushing, multidisciplinary performance utilizes their diverse artistic backgrounds and pushes the boundaries of what a band might be. Oh Pray Tell offers up an original, soulful sound influenced by gospel, R&B, roots music and folk story-telling. This East Kootenay based trio With deep gratitude for the land, water, all beings and the wisdom of our well ancestors, past and present, this is our humble offering. Oh Pray Tell www.ohpraytell.com

Doors at 6pm, Show at 7pm.  

70 capacity, 45 seats: first come, first serve

Meat and veggie pizza served by the slice

$25 advance, $30 door

BUY TICKETS HERE

🔥 MONTHLY HIP-HOP NIGHT at the Mateada Yerba Lounge! 🔥

Get ready for the last Saturday of EVERY MONTH starting in March! Doors at 7 PM, DJ Boomtown hosting!

🎤 Open Mic (8-9 PM): MCs, spit your fire! Beatboxers, bring the rhythm! 🎨 Graffiti Artist Needed: Let's create some art! 🕺 Breakdancers welcome: Show us your moves!

DM us to get involved! #hiphop #saltspringisland #openmic #graffiti #breakdance #community #mateada #boomtownsound

70 capacity, 45 seats: first come, first serve

Meat and veggie pizza served by the slice

Tickets: $20 at the door

THE ROSES play the music of the Good Ol’ Grateful Dead! 

Hailing from Sooke and Victoria and in keeping with the spirit of the Grateful Dead never play the same 2 sets twice! 

Drawing from the Dead’s extensive live catalogue and digging deep into the exploratory nature of the Grateful Deads’ musical ethos, you’re guaranteed to be taken on a long strange trip! 

HILLTOP PRANKSTERS: Local psychedelic groove band playing opening set at 8pm.

Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm.  

70 capacity, 45 seats: first come, first serve

Meat and veggie pizza served by the slice

$20 Advance, $25 Door

BUY TICKETS HERE

Our local and talented improv group graces the stage again. Come on down for some good laughs!

Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm.  

70 capacity, 45 seats: first come, first serve

Meat and veggie pizza served by the slice

Tickets: $10 at the door

Michael Lafayette Troy (born January 15, 1969),[1] better known by his stage name Myka 9, is a rapper from Los Angeles, California.[2] He is a member of Freestyle Fellowship, Haiku d'Etat and Magic Heart Genies.[3] Known for years as Mikah Nine, he changed the spelling to Myka Nyne with the release of A Work in Progress in 2003. Since Magic Heart Genies' album Heartifactin 2008, he has been credited as Myka 9.

Emotionz - Dave Nelson

Rapper/Beatboxer/DJ/Graffiti Artist/Bboy/Concrete Hustle/ Sound Clash Festival/ Flow States #Nicey Vancouver Globe explorer Hip Hop Nature Food.

Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm.  

70 capacity, 45 seats: first come, first serve

Meat and veggie pizza served by the slice

$35 advance, $40 door

BUY TICKETS HERE

The Grapes Of Wrath- Acoustic Live

Tom Hooper and Kevin Kane of the Canadian folk/pop band The Grapes Of Wrath bring their acoustic show to Salt Spring Island to Mateada on Friday April 4.

Hooper and Kane formed the band along with Tom’s brother drummer Chris Hooper as teenagers in their hometown Kelowna in 1983 . The band enjoyed multi platinum and gold record sales across the country as well as being mainstays on Much Music and  scoring numerous top 40 hits.. Including All The Things I Wasn’t, What Was Going Through My Head, You May Be Right,Peace Of Mind,I Am Here .

The Grapes Of Wrath acoustic shows are already sold out on the Ontario leg of their tour playing smaller theatres and venues..There is a limited amount of tickets available for their show at the beautiful and intimate Mateada  .The stripped down format highlights their harmonies and stories about the songs and  experiences over their 40 plus year career.

Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm.  

70 capacity, 45 seats: first come, first serve

Meat and veggie pizza served by the slice

$50 Advance tickets: SOLD OUT

BUY TICKETS HERE

The Grapes Of Wrath- Acoustic Live

Tom Hooper and Kevin Kane of the Canadian folk/pop band The Grapes Of Wrath bring their acoustic show to Salt Spring Island at Mateada on Thursday April 3rd.

Hooper and Kane formed the band along with Tom’s brother drummer Chris Hooper as teenagers in their hometown Kelowna in 1983 . The band enjoyed multi platinum and gold record sales across the country as well as being mainstays on Much Music and  scoring numerous top 40 hits.. Including All The Things I Wasn’t, What Was Going Through My Head, You May Be Right,Peace Of Mind,I Am Here .

The Grapes Of Wrath acoustic shows are already sold out on the Ontario leg of their tour playing smaller theatres and venues..There is a limited amount of tickets available for their show at the beautiful and intimate Mateada  .The stripped down format highlights their harmonies and stories about the songs and  experiences over their 40 plus year career.

Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm.  

70 capacity, 45 seats: first come, first serve

Meat and veggie pizza served by the slice

$50 Advance tickets

BUY TICKETS HERE

🔥 MONTHLY HIP-HOP NIGHT at the Mateada Yerba Lounge! 🔥

Get ready for the last Saturday of EVERY MONTH starting in March! Doors at 7 PM, DJ Boomtown hosting!

🎤 Open Mic (8-9 PM): MCs, spit your fire! Beatboxers, bring the rhythm! 🎨 Graffiti Artist Needed: Let's create some art! 🕺 Breakdancers welcome: Show us your moves!

DM us to get involved! #hiphop #saltspringisland #openmic #graffiti #breakdance #community #mateada #boomtownsound

70 capacity, 45 seats: first come, first serve

Meat and veggie pizza served by the slice

$20 at the door

Our beloved local band, Sugarbeat will grace the stage at Mateada with their homegrown sweet and soulful vibes. They are launching their new album “ROOTS” for the first set and will follow up with some groovy tunes to dance for the second set.

Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm

Meat and veggie pizza served by the slice

70 capacity, 45 seats: first come, first serve

$40 tickets: ticket price includes new CD, Couples tickets for $60: Only available locally at Windsor

BUY TICKETS HERE

OUR LOCAL IMPROV TRIBE IS BACK TO DAZZLE YOU !

70 tickets available, 45 seats: First come, First serve

Meat and veggie pizza served by the slice

$15 at the door

Enter the Love Bubble at the Velvety Mateada February 15th 

For the Love Potions Dance . 

Soak up the Juicy and Evocative Beats of Coco and ZURA.

Excited to Share in the Magic with y’all! Tickets at the door $20

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Excited to Share in the Magic with y’all! Tickets at the door $20

Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm.

70 tickets available, 40 seats: First come, First serve

Our beloved local band, Sugarbeats is kicking off the year at Mateada on Valentine's day.

BUY TICKETS HERE

Doors at 7pm, show at 8pm. Tickets are $40 and come with CD. Couples are $60 with CD included.

70 tickets available, 45 seats: First come, First serve

The first set will feature songs from the new album and the second set will bring on the dance party !

Tor is a JUNO Award winning music producer and DJ who has been releasing original music since 2011.

"Oasis Sky" is Tor’s first original body of work since his 2016 album, "Blue Book". It expands on the latter’s meditative

energy with the producer’s signature warmth and beat-driven atmospherics, while digging deeper into the

experiences and emotions that have informed the past 4 years of his life. From a busy touring schedule that saw the

Vancouver-based producer playing his music across the U.S., the E.U., Australia, and Costa Rica, as well as being

sought out to produce remixes for Max Cooper, Fejká, Frameworks, and RÜFÜS DU SOL, the album only began to

come into focus after slowing down, establishing roots, finding centre and introspection in a new living space.

Since Oasis Sky's release it has gone on to accumulate over 26 million streams across platforms, been played on

BBC Radio 1, Sirius XM Chill, and NPR, featured on CSI: Vegas, and won Electronic Album of the Year at the 2022

9pm / $30

BOOM HUMAN - Sep 21

9:00 PM - 11:55 PM

150 Fulford-Ganges Road Ganges, BC, V8K 2T8 Canada (map)

Boom Human mixes future bass, psydub, tribal and other sexy, bassy electronic, and accompanies with a modified 10-string Chapman Stick – which he uses to augment with synth bass and other sounds live. Formerly from San Francisco, Boom Human has performed across North America at clubs, festivals and private events on the east and west coasts. He has played prominent Burning Man sound stages and art cars since 2013 and has appeared with acts like Desert Dwellers, Phutureprimitive, Random Rab, Deya Dova and Beats Antique.

“Deep, sexy and eminently danceable live sounds. We keep hiring him and he never disappoints!”

Philippe Lewis, Club Exotica co-founder, Enchanted Forest Gathering producer

“Pulsing, spiritual, sensual, inward, outward, light and dark, glitter and grime.”

Jess Chubb, San Francisco

“Absolutely my favourite show of the weekend. I could have stayed there all night.”

Peter Davoust, Vancouver, B.C. regional Burning Man event

“Amazing energy, passion and incorporation of live performance.”

Cosmic Cowboy/Jonathan Yudis, Co-Founder, Camp Mystic

“We saw most of your whole set and were utterly in awe of your creativity. You’re a truly talented magical artist.”

Kriz Vetz, Vancouver, B.C. regional Burning Man event

$20 in advance or at door if available

Advance purchase recommended

Salt Spring Arts Council & The Salt Spring Chamber Of Commerce - in partnership with Salt Spring Exchange - happily present the 3rd Convergence Festival in downtown Ganges on Friday, September 20th, 2024 - a free, single-day festival produced by Tommy van Deursen, Mateada’s Artistic Director since 2021.

Convergence Festival takes place at the location where the inter-island tidal river reaches the Ganges harbour. This is a location where wildly diverse and rich ecological life converges - hence the dual meaning of the event name. The day-long event is a free, family friendly festival that encourages our local community to gather and connect after the bustle of the tourism season subsides. Convergence aims to celebrate local creative talent, build community cohesion, and inspire engagement and investment in community impact throughout the coming year.

A line-up of brilliant local musicians will be taking the stage between 1pm - 10pm. In order of appearance:

• A selection of compositions from the GISS Music Program, starting our day at 1pm

• A rockin’ set of music from Sugarbeat

• The long-form grooves and heartfelt lyrics of Hilltop Pranksters

• A soulful deep-dive with Sophia Danai + Safiya Labelle

• Upbeat funk etc with Woodland ft. Yael Wand + Phöenix Lazare

• Classic rock and beautiful psych etc from The Dang Package

• A Modern take on classic new wave with Drama Queen

• The hard-touring yet locally based sextet Small Town Artillery Collective to close us down
  

Besides a full day of great music, we also get a chance to say our goodbyes - Convergence is sadly the end of Mateada but it’s also the beginning of a new chapter in the support for local performing arts and music on salt spring. It can’t happen without your support. An on-site presence from Salt Spring Arts, The Chamber and SGITP will be activated, featuring a kids & craft zone, the Gulf Island Events Calender, and we encourage you to head over to the “community tent” to get involved and share how you could contribute - let’s dream up the future together!

The Mateada itself will serve as the licensed area for this event. You will need 2 pieces of Government issued ID to get in, and a limited drink menu will be available for purchase! Outside in the event grounds, Mateada’s kitchen crew will be serving a limited menu also for purchase - featuring Choripan, Arepas & Chipas, with both veggie and meat options. You’ll need to purchase food tickets from Mateada and take them out to get some grub!

The parking lot immediately outside the Mateada will be foot traffic only for the entire day of September 20th, however the larger parking lot beside Salt Spring Coffee will remain open for vehicles. 

This event takes place on the un-surrendered and sovereign lands of the Hul'qumi'num and SENĆOŦEN speaking peoples, including the Quw'utsun First Nation and Tsawout First Nation.

Convergence was dreamed up by Tommy van Deursen in 2022 + 2023, and was funded by Guayaki Yerba Mate Co. This year, many local businesses are stepping up to make this free & for the community event possible. Presented by The Chamber + Salt Spring Arts Council in Partnership with Salt Spring Exchange. We need to give a massive thank you to additional support from Cassette, Salty Pay, Gulf Island Events / The SGITP, The Philip + Muriel Berman Foundation.

We look forward to seeing you on Sept 20th!

Audiofox has been setting dance floors on fire since 2009. With her signature bass-infused style and innate ability to command the crowd create an electric atmosphere that’s impossible to resist.
Her career has seen her perform at numerous festivals like Otherworld, Burn in the Forest, Lamplit and Burningman as well as many nightclubs and event spaces around Victoria and Vancouver Island.
She doesn’t just get the party started; she creates an electric atmosphere that will transform into an unforgettable, spine-tingling journey.

9:30pm / $15 Adv + $20 Door

What:
A uniquely crafted mix of alt-folk concert of original songwriting, a storytelling experience, soap box sermon and homegrown old-time bardic weave for these times.

Where:
The Mateada
Salt Spring Island

Cost:
$20 Advance + Door

War is Over, Forever!:

I'm Matthew McKinney, a storyteller and folk singer/ songwriter drawing another circle with my feet over our good green Earth to sing for the people. I'm a local Salt Springer and have returned home from my summer tour to share this dynamic performance with my community.

An old idea is that in times of trouble, songs and stories are just as important nourishment as food and water. These are those times. Economic distress, climate catastrophe, post-pandemic recovery, political divisions to the point of complete rupture and corruption, the emergence and reckoning of truths and untruths yet to be integrated. And yet, here we are, people not unlike people from every other time period learning how to walk this road of life.

This set addresses many of the swirling uncertainties, the larger process we as humanity face in our fates and destinies.
These songs come from the crucible of life, moving through the challenges of our time. This performance flows out of my encounters in the various lineages of folk, blues, and rock and roll, the social movements in counter-culture, and drawing on a deeper nature-connected ancestral past to face the cataclysms of the present. This tour explores the end of war and its varied layers, and our individual and collective places in it.
Come away with a truly enjoyable experience that stirs the heart and nourishes the soul, bringing joy and relief.
My music is a blend of musical performance and storytelling that often brings people into a deeper experience that can feel interactive.

As a young man, I was obsessed by the old concept of "bard." Through journeys into wilderness and a practice of mentoring and learning from Earth-based lineages, my performances often bring forward the discourses of human connection with nature, with these transitional times, our ancestral history and it's complexities of belonging to place and within culture, and our personal journeys within these movements.

“Through his original songwriting, Matt McKinney mixes personal story and the mythological, informed by the journey of connecting deeply in the wilderness and a variety of travels through diverse cultures and landscapes. His performative songwriting, driven by creative and interesting vocal melody, poetic lyricism, energetic presence, and skillful guitar playing, provides an experience that can touch your heart, your soul, surprises and awakens the passion to remember our own meaningful journeys of deepening and transformation in connection with the mysteries of life.”
Thanks so much and I look forward to seeing you there.

Tickets are $20 and for sale here or at the door:

The dons are back!

9pm - First 30 tickets are $20, remaining tickets are $25. Get them here.