Vancouver Adapted Music Society (VAMS)
425 Carrall St # 318 V6B 6E3 Vancouver, BC, Canada

Here is the last of our #StrongXVirtualCOncertSeries for 2020, featuring Kristina Shelden Join us for a half-hour of blues, pop, and R&B that will get your weekend off to a great start!

Tomorrow, we're going to be sharing our last concert from the 2020 #strongxvirtualconcertseries! Stay tuned in 2021 for more performances.. Tune in tomorrow at 7 PM to watch Kristina Shelden perform a set that ranges from blues to pop music, with an R&B twist. Here's a preview of what you can look forward to!

Tonight! See you there

Join VAMS tonight at 7PM for the #StrongXVirtualConcertSeries "Backstage Pass"! Watch or re-watch the concerts featuring performances by VAMS artists @digger_dan_music and Thora Rogers and meet the performers live on Zoom. There will be an opportunity to ask questions of the performers and celebrate their musical talents! To register, please visit: https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_qylEYqCHSNuA03Ccr1ZMCA

Everyone at VAMS wishes you a fun, healthy, and safe holiday season. If you can, share the gift of inclusion this year by donating to the holiday fund for Tetra and our affiliated societies.

Over the past few months, our programs have changed significantly as we responded to COVID-19? We'd like to know how we're doing. Let us know in our feedback survey!

Now that we're halfway through the #StrongXVirtualConcertSeries, we want to invite you to join us at 7:00 PM on November 18th for our first #BackstagePass event as we gather to celebrate the artists responsible for the wonderful music we've been able to bring you. We'll be watching (re-watching) the shows and having a Q&A session with each performer. To register for the event visit:

It's time for show two from the #StrongXVirtualConcertseries. This time, Thora Rogers is joined by Cathy Dungate, Graeme Wyman, and Dave Symington for a 1/2 hour of folk music. We know you're going to enjoy it! Whether you watch the show tonight, tomorrow, or sometime in the future, you can watch the show here, on our YouTube channel, or on the VAMS website.

Can’t wait to get back to this

"...Then I went up to 100 Mile House by myself and it scared the **** out of me. It was really something." Check out the latest installment of Reimagine Radio as Graeme talks to Thora Rogers about her beginnings in music and about her early gigs as a performer.

VAMS is excited to announce that we’re going to be sharing the second concert from the #StrongXVirtualConcertSeries this Friday at 7:00 PM. In this concert @Thora Rogers is joined by Cathy Dungate, Graeme Wyman, and Dave Symington for a half-hour set of soulful folk music. Here’s a sneak preview of the show! On Friday, view the show on Facebook, our YouTube channel, or directly from the VAMS website.

Fabulous. Absolutely amazing working with you and Dave, Dave Symington was great too we haven’t done that before particularly. It was a whole new venture. We thought this was great, it’s new and you try different things and it was absolutely amazing. I can’t wait to hear the final product! Here is part two of our #ReImagineRadio interview with Thora Rogers where they talk about her participation in the #StrongXVirtualConcertSeries, how her music has evolved over the years, and how she’s looking to getting back out and playing again.

We are getting close to meeting our goal of raising $5,000 this holiday season. If you are able to do so, please consider giving the gift of musical exploration or supporting one of our affiliated Societies. https://www.facebook.com/DisabilityFoundation/posts/10158875434666655

Coming up tomorrow on the next installment of #ReImagineRadio, Graeme chats with the next performer in the #StrongXVirtualConcertSeries, Thora Rogers. Tune in tomorrow to hear about how she got started with music and all about one of her first shows, which took place in 100 Mile House.

"Thank you City of Vancouver and the Vancouver Adapted Music Society and all of the great staff that provided support and encouragement and a safe place to play. " - Dave Symington, Sticks & Tones

We wanted to get the weekend off to a rocking start and are so excited to share with you Show One of the #StrongXVirtualConcertSeries! We know you’re going to enjoy the bluesy rock sound of @DiggerDanMusic and the Dirt Brigade. Stay tuned for new shows and other exciting things happening at VAMS over the coming weeks! We had a great time putting this concert together and want to do more to support musicians with disabilities. To do this, VAMS needs your support. If you can, please make a gift today. https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/53425

We are going to be sharing the first of the #StrongXVirtualConcertSeries videos, featuring @diggerdanmusic and the Dirt Brigade, tomorrow at 7 PM right here on our Facebook page. Tune in to start your weekend off right!

VAMS is really excited to be continuing the Strong X Concert Series that we began last year! The current situation in the world meant that we had to get creative. From that creativity comes the #StrongXVirtualConcertSeries. Here's a sneak peek at the first show and keep tuned to our social media for more details coming soon!

"That was a good door to open the memory for me." In Part Two of our #ReImagineRadio interview with Digger Dan, hear how he decided to venture out on his own and produce his own music. Graeme and Danny also chat about something new VAMS is trying; a virtual Strong X Concert series! More to come in the next couple days, so stay tuned.

Join us on #ReImagineRadio tomorrow for Part Two of our interview with Digger Dan to hear about his beginnings with VAMS and how he met Dave Symington. Graeme and Danny also discuss something exciting that's coming to VAMS in the very near future. Tune in to learn more!

"I was never in bands prior to being injured. I just jammed with some buddies at work. We never gigged, we just drank beer and were in a shed, making a lot of noise." Check out Part One of Graeme's #ReImagineRadio interview with Digger Dan. In the first part, Danny talks about how going to university introduced him to metaphors, which focused his songwriting, and how moving from Kelowna to Penticton got him involved in the arts community and into bands.

Because of you, we were able to continue producing music from home with our Re-Imagine Radio podcast, mini-school tutorial videos and collaboration songs. Thank you

After a brief pause, #ReImagineRadio returns tomorrow with Part One of Graeme’s interview with long-time VAMS performer and busker Digger Dan. In the meantime, check out this interview that Danny did with Spinal Cord Injury BC for their new issue of The Spin!

We had such a great time working on the first collaboration song "Isolated", that we wrote and recorded another one! This track, called "Who Am I", features performances by many talented VAMS performers, including: - Dave Symington - Simon Paradis - Sheena Han... - Thora Rogers - Mark Ash - Jaycee Warfield - Doug Docherty - Graeme Wyman

That’s what art does for us, whether it’s writing or visual or dance or music, it makes us feel things, it slows us down so that we have that awareness of what we are actually feeling.In part two of our #ReImagineRadio interview with Kara Stanley, Graeme and Kara chat about writing Fallen: A Trauma, a Marriage, and the Transformative Power of Music, and about the role of art in her life, as well as her current writing project.

I became really fascinated with all things about the brain and in particular its capacity for healing, and resiliency and change throughout the lifespan. In this week's #ReImagineRadio interview, Graeme chats with Kara Stanley about her book Fallen: A Trauma, a Marriage, and the Transformative Power of Music. Join us again next week for part 2!

I went there one night and there was a guy called Jeff Standfield who was running the jam, running the open mike. In part three of our interview with Rolf Kempf, Rolf talks with Graeme about how he found VAMS, shares some of his poetry, and ends the interview with something inspirational.