The Best of the Beatles with the Vancouver Island Symphony & Jeans'N Classics Band

The Vancouver Island Symphony presents
The Best of the Beatles
Guest artists: Jeans ‘n Classics Band
VIS Symphonic Choir
Conductor: Pierre Simard
Saturday, April 26, 3:0p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Port Theatre, Nanaimo
Tickets: (Individual and Family 4-Pack)
250-754-8550 www.porttheatre.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Calling all Beatles fans!

For Jeans’N Classics at the Symphony!
 

What crosses every cultural border and transcends every generation? The Beatles – and their music. Just about every one of every age around the world recognizes them. On Saturday, April 26, the Vancouver Island Symphony presents the Jeans’N Classics Band and The Best of the Beatles in two riveting jeans and classics shows (at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.).

The music: Headlining the show - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band! This became a global hit and has been and still is considered the most important rock and roll album ever made. The talented Jeans’N Classics Band presents the entire Sgt. Pepper album and, with the assistance of Pierre Simard, the VI Symphony and the Symphonic Choir, will highlight such Beatles’ hits as: (Just like) Starting Over, Across the Universe, Eleanor Rigby, My Sweet Lord, Woman, Because, The Long and Winding Road, and Let It Be.

The band - Since its inception in the 1990’s, the Jeans’N Classics Band has been a star performer in the arts and entertainment scene across North America. Its concept of combining rock musicians and headlining stars with world-class symphony orchestras has drawn record setting capacity crowds.

Jean Meilleur – Lead singer for ‘The Best of the Beatles’ is Jean Meilleur, a prolific singer-songwriter who has been performing professionally for over twenty-five years. While he performs the music of so many artists, Meilleur paints the lyrics and the melody with a thick, robust timbre that is immediately recognizable as his own.

Says Meilleur. “I’ve always loved the Beatles’ music, and it’s quite a moving experience to sing it.” Then Meilleur adds, “You could play a Beatles song in a rain forest and it would be known. In our history books the Beatles will be a massive root in the tree of popular music. It’s music that will last forever, like Beethoven."

 

Joining Meilleur for this show are Jeans’N Classics Band members Kathryn Rose and Leah Salomaa on back-up vocals, Dave Dunlop on guitars, Donald Paulton on keyboard and vocals, Darryl Stacey on bass, and Jeff Christmas on drums.

 

Tickets – (individual and family 4-packs) for the biggest Beatles show ever (with 160 performers on stage) are available by calling 250-754-8550.

And don’t forget to wear your jeans!

For more information visit www.vancouverislandsymphony.com

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