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A tour by four Can-rock heavyweights originally scheduled to stop in Victoria Monday has found a new home on the 2021 calendar.

The July 6 concert featuring Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre has been rescheduled for June 14, 2021.

A groundbreaking new Pacific Opera Victoria series featuring interviews and performances with people of colour will explore issues of inequality in the classical arts.

A busy two weeks of activity for Metchosin rocker Jesse Roper — which includes seven live concerts at the Breakwater Tasting Room — gets underway Thursday with an airborne interview 8,500 feet above Vancouver Island.

Singer and teacher Catherine Young, who served as the head of the voice department at the Victoria Conservatory of Music for thirty years, has died. Young died in her sleep June 13 at her home in Broadmead. She was 88.

Vancouver Island products Steve Bays, Alexandria Maillot, and the Vancouver Island Symphony have each drawn two nominations at the 2020 Western Canadian Music Awards, which celebrates the best in music from provinces and territories west of Ontario.

What: Challenge Crisis with Creativity Where: Gage Gallery Arts Collective, 2031 Oak Bay Ave.

Tessa Lloyd’s book Forty Fathers: Men Talk about Parenting, is a collection of intimate personal narratives about fatherhood from a diverse group of Canadian men.

Hugh Fraser’s reputation as a jazz musician and educator was such that when he spoke, everyone listened intently. But when the pianist and trombone player performed, he could communicate volumes without saying a word.

What: 2020 DOXA Documentary Film Festival Where: doxafestival.ca When: June 18-26 Admission: $6-10 per ticket; $60 for a festival pass from doxafestival.