MUSIC
Check our instragram and bulletin board outside the Mateada for upcoming events:
If you are interested in booking MATEADA for a wedding or other private event, lease write mateadabooking@gmail.com
to inquire further
DUB ALCHEMISTS
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
Saritah & Logan Staats
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
Boomtown Hip Hop
🔥 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
Kim Churchill
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
Bassos Rancheros and Andrew Interchill
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
Entangados
ENTANGADOS - Una banda de Paya.S.O.S. is returning in 2025 for our #BIGTINYTOUR after wrapping a successful post-pandemic Canada Summer tour in 2024, marking our 20th year anniversary with 1000+ shows worldwide! This is our 6th tour with over 100 shows in Canada, and we would love to get Salt Spring dancing and feeling joyous vibes again!
Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm.
70 capacity, 45 seats: first come, first serve
Meat and veggie pizza served by the slice
caraluna
"Caraluna’s music is what might happen if a circus fell in love with a cathedral. A band born on Salt Spring Island but carried by the winds of the old world. Their music blends Balkan brass, folk poetry, and drifting accordion into a sound that feels both rooted and weightless—like memory set to melody."
-BBC
Caraluna (“beloved moon” in Gaelic/Latin, “moon face” in Spanish) is the multilingual indie-world-folk project of singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Jesse Edward Thom.
Inspired by timeless voices like Jacques Brel and minimalist composers such as Yann Tiersen, Thom weaves simple, emotionally rich melodies with poetic reflections drawn from his travels across Latin America, Western Canada, Spain, and the UK. His music reflects a deep connection to nature, meditation, and the art of Sacred Clowning, creating songs that feel intimate, grounded, and profoundly human.For more info, check: https://caraluna.ca/epk
70 capacity, 45 seats: first come, first serve
Meat and veggie pizza served by the slice
Tickets: $20 at the door, $15 advance
Tambura Rasa
Tambura Rasa is a vibrant fusion of cultures, blending contemporary grooves and traditional rhythms into one energetic musical brand of its own. Led by producer Ivan Tucakov, this eclectic group of performers from all corners of the globe weaves a rich tapestry of sound and dance, drawing from the Balkans, Spain, Turkey, the Middle East, and beyond.
Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm.
70 capacity, 45 seats: first come, first serve
Meat and veggie pizza served by the slice
$25 advance, $30 door
BOOMTOWN HIP HOP
🔥 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
Salome Cullen / Tyger Jackson
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
skywater
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
Siarimis
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
Sargeant X Comrade
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
OH PREY TELL
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
Boomtown Hip Hip
🔥 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
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
IMPROV
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
Myka 9 & Emotionz
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.
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
Grapes of Wrath
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
Grapes of Wrath
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
Boomtown Hip Hop Dance Party
🔥 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
IMPROV
Come down and join the fun! Always a great show with many laughs!
Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm.
70 capacity, 45 seats: first come, first serve
Meat and veggie pizza served by the slice
Sugarbeat
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
Tommy Van Solo
Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm
70 capacity, 45 seats: first come, first serve
Tom (Tommy) van Deursen has been a touring musician for the past 17 years. Born in Vancouver BC on May 7th, 1989, raised in the tiny mountain town of Kaslo, and currently residing on Salt Spring Island after 12 years of music and career development in East Van. He is an original member of Vancouver’s Tropical Disco-Rockers The Boom Booms, and the frontman for the rock band Small Town Artillery Collective. He has toured Brasil, Europe, The USA, Canada, Mexico, Central America, Haiti with The Boom Booms and many times around Western Canada + Ontario with STAC.
This new project, “Van Solo”, is a one-man-band experience. A place for all the songs and stories that don’t land naturally with the ensembles, and a way to challenge van Deursen musically.
He puts on a deep feeling and warm show, not afraid to engage with a crowd and lean into experimentation within the confines of his songs. A little piano and keys, lots of Stratocaster and acoustic guitar, and a wide vocal range all get thrown into the air, with the thump of a kick drum and the goosh of a snare played by his feet to help with the foundations. Think James Blake in a boxing match with Jack White while the lads from Half Moon Run play a well-paced game of bocce ball outside. But the grass is tall. And a storm is coming.
Improv
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
LOVE POTIONS
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
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
SUGARBEATS
Our beloved local band, Sugarbeats is kicking off the year at Mateada on Valentine's day.
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
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 (SHOW POSTPONED - NEW TBD)
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
Convergence Festival 2024!
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!
Audio Fox & FRIENDS
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
Matthew McKinney
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:
Andrew Interchill + Bassos Rancheros
The dons are back!
9pm - First 30 tickets are $20, remaining tickets are $25. Get them here.
Leland River
A North-Westcoast fixture - Leland River is a DJ/Producer whose genesis as an artist and human being is deeply tied to the mycelial webs of the BC festival scene.
Trusted by many of his peers and listeners for his diverse array of productions, mixes, and adept sense for playing the right music at the right time; Leland River has been given the controls at Bass Coast, Envision, CampQ, and Shambhala for 12 years in a row.
From a love of hypnotizing rhythms and the low-end of dubstep, garage, grime, breaks, dancehall, jungle and techno; mixed with a disposition for emotive ambience and a love for R&B - Leland River’s music and DJ sets fit better inside a vast large venn diagram than a box.
Only $15 !
DJ Tetsu
Tetsu brings his signature mashup of Decks and Dance to Mateada on Saturday, August 24th.
$15 At The Door Only- come early to get a ticket!
Improv Theatre
Oh we've missed you so! And now we're back!
Join us, won't you?
We've all been on big journeys, and we're delighted to be back with you all again! Come create some stories with us, live and on the spot. Kate, Michael, Nayana, Tom, and Ari will do their best to entertain you. Piet and Simmone are still both off on their profound, and profoundly different journeys, that we can't yet tell you about... but will, so soon.
Join us at the Mateada after the concert in the park - Thursday, Aug 22nd - 8pm! Tickets $10 at the door.
See you soon!
Love, All of Us.
Dinner & Jazz with Iain Duncan + Friends
Join us at the Mateada for the final Dinner and Jazz concert before the Mateada closes the music program for the season. On Wednesday Aug 21st, Iain Duncan will be joined by regular visitors Nick Peck on organ and Hans Verhoeven on drums. It's been a great run and we hope you can join us to wind it up with a bang!
A Salt Spring resident since early 2022, Iain Duncan holds a Master of Music from the University of Victoria, where he has appeared in the Victoria Jazz Festival and numerous other venues. He is currently an interdisciplinary PhD student in Music and Computer Science at the University of Victoria. Nick Peck is an award winning composer and keyboardist originally from the UK, with a Masters in Music from Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and is now based Vancouver Island. Hans Verhoeven is the drum instructor at Vancouver Island University, and holds a Masters in Music from the University of Victoria. Hans and Nick regularly accompany some of the country's finest jazz musicans and we are delighted to have them back for the finale of the Dinner & Jazz series.
To keep these events accessible to all, cover is by donation, either by cash at the door or by e-transfer honour system. To donate, please contact iain through the Salt Spring Exchange message system or send a text, 250 589 7469. Dinner service begins at 6, and as previous shows have had all the tables fill up for the first set, reservations are recommended for the first set.
Kim Churchill
Our final hurrah for our full-time program is not one, but TWO nights with the extraordinary Kim Churchill!
Tickets are $30 Advance and can be found at the bottom of this page.
Kim Churchill was born in Canberra and moved to the town of Merimbula at around age seven.[1][2] He picked his first guitar when he was 4 years old when his father promised him a guitar if he did well in school. He was trained in classical guitar for ten years.[3] He accompanies his guitar with blues harp (harmonica), stomp box, drums, and percussion instruments.[4] He also plays lapsteel and tambourine.
He started singing and playing in front of crowds very early, writing songs while experimenting various tunes or while busking in various venues. An avid fan of surfing, he incorporated the sport in many of his songs and music videos. Churchill tours extensively and has become a favourite during music festivals including the East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival (Australia's "Bluesfest"), the Woodford Folk Festival,[3] and other Australian venues. He has particular following in Canada[5][6] where he took part in Canadian Music Week, the Ottawa Folk Festival and the famous Montreal International Jazz Festival.[7] He enjoys good following in the United States where he performed at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas and the International Folk Federation Conference in Memphis,[8] plus a tour in England, other European venues, and in Japan.
He released his debut single "Loving Home" that received regular airplay nationally on Australian Triple J radio and ABC Radio National, as well as local and community stations all over Australia. His debut album was entitled With Sword and Shield[9] and released under the title Kim Churchill internationally.[10]
Churchill's second studio album was released on 15 May 2012 being the album Detail of Distance.[11] It was recorded in Vancouver, Canada and was produced by Tod Simko and released by Indica Records. Owing to his popularity in Canada, the release was supported by a 2012 pan-Canadian national summer tour. In 2013 Churchill supported Billy Bragg on his Tooth and Nail tour.
His fourth album Silence/Win was released on 1 April 2014 through Fontana North. Produced by Warne Livesey, it was recorded primarily in sessions in Ucluelet on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.[12] He also engaged on a pan-Canadian tour to promote the album. The track "Some Days the Rain May Fall" from the album charted on ARIA, the official Australian Singles Chart reaching number 86. Another track from the same album "Window to the Sky" was remixed by the French deep house and electro music producer The Avener and released in France as "You're My Window to the Sky" and charting on SNEP, the French Official Singles Chart.[13]
In 2023, "Window to the Sky" was certified Platinum by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), while at the same time the 2017 "Second Hand Car" was certified Gold.[14]