THE FRETLESS

The Fretless (who played as part of the 2017-18 season) is the Canadian fiddle foursome playing an essential part in the emerging movement mainstreaming traditional Irish folk music.

Starting with its debut album in 2012, the band has steadily pushed further into the public eye, winning Instrumental Album of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards and Instrumental Group of the Year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards. Its 2014 tune Waiving To Ryan has topped a million Spotify plays, and in 2017, The Fretless took home a Juno™ award for Instrumental Album of The Year for its most recent full-length Bird’s Nest.

Through its deconstruction and transformation of the usual rhythmic, harmonic and structured arrangements of fiddle styles around the world, The Fretless is pushing traditional music to a new place, and has now issued itself an atypical challenge in the mission to find and convert fans unfamiliar with “progressive” traditional music.

COVID-19 safety protocols

Your safety is our priority. We are taking all measures to provide a safe, sanitized and comfortable theatre setting, and we are following current regulations provided by the provincial government, WorkSafeBC, and ActSafeBC. For each performance we are selling a maximum of 50 tickets, advance sales only. Your seating will have appropriate social distancing between your party and the next. Each party will have their own entry point to a seating row. An additional entrance and exit will be used to load in and out of the theatre. If you are feeling unwell or have symptoms please do not attend the concert and contact the box office. ArtSpring will be providing hand sanitizer, and facemasks are required when entering and exiting the theatre due to narrow doorways. Masks are not mandatory whilst in your seat.

• Patrons required to give name and contact number for all ticketholders in their party at time of purchase

• Maximum group size is 6.

• General seating only - Box Office will assign seats

• No paper tickets – guest list on arrival

• Arrival via lower parking lot only (upper parking lot will be closed).

• Staff wearing PPE

• Masks available to attendees

• Merchandise is pre-ordered and delivered to your seat

• No intermission and no concession

• Cleaning/disinfecting entire space before and after the event

• Please maintain social distance from others outside of your party