What: Let the Love In featuring Fox Glove, Towers and Trees, Twin Bandit and more
Where: Alix Goolden Performance Hall, 907 Pandora Ave.
When: Saturday, 7:30 p.m. (doors at 7)
Tickets: $20/$12 at ticketfly.com and the Victoria Conservatory of Music box office
The spirit of collaboration will be alive and well on Saturday during Let the Love In, a multi-band showcase at the Alix Goolden Performance Hall.
“There will be a lot of cross-pollination going on,” said Claire Butterfield of Fox Glove, the local folk trio that put together the event. “You don’t see that a lot these days.”
Fox Glove, which also features Renn Madeleine Bibeau and Chelsea Kanstrup, called on peers and close friends for the show, everything from rock bands (Towers and Trees, Twin Bandit) and a choir (The Choir) to comics (Ryan Steele and Ryan Bangma), a poet (Cobra Collins) and a string quartet (The Monarch String Trio).
The acts will collaborate during the show, Butterfield said. “It’s a way for the community to come together and celebrate music and all things light in the dark months of winter,” she said.
“But when we decided to call it the Love In, it was also a way for everyone to come together in a bit of a peaceful protest. That idea from the ’60s, of a love-in, we really wanted to capture that in this political climate.”
Let the Love In will also feature a presentation from Shauna Janz, executive director of Learning Through Loss. The program, which will receive partial proceeds from Let the Love In, supports and empowers youth through grief and loss education, and is playing an ever-increasing role in the community, Butterfield said.
“We all deal with grief at certain points in our lives, and the services [Janz] offers are necessary in the community.”
Fox Glove will debut new songs that touch on some of the topics Janz addresses.
“We’ve had a pretty heavy year as a band, in terms of personal loss,” Butterfield said.
“The songs we’ve been writing have that in mind, and it was important to show what that looks like in our lives. We thought it was important to cover in our show.”
