2025 artists
Dates, Times, Links to Artists' Sites
23 | AUGUST
4:00
TelTales
Michael Long
5:00
6:00
alfie hebson
16 | AUGUST
4:00
5:00
5:30
6:00
30 | AUGUST
4:00
Earl Jenkins
Norine Braun
5:00
5:45
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HISTORY
The Musart Concert Series (formerly known as the Cates Park Concert Series) was developed in the summer of 1998 by Jeff Maynard and Tyler Pearson. Jeff Maynard was the first coordinator for MUSART to organize Deep Cove Daze.
He was an enthusiastic student - now a highschool principal - who came to Tyler, the artistic director of MUSART, and said, "Why don't we put on original music concerts to support independent artists and bands on Saturdays in Cates Park leading up to Deep Cove Daze?" Tyler thought this was a great idea that fit with the MUSART mandate.
With no funding that first year, they started the series with a bare-bones PA from the eighties and tiny amps propped up by rocks for monitors. The series grew from there and has featured over hundreds of bands and artists to date.
Music from the artists!
The Musart Concert Series originally created compilation CD's that first started in 2001. The intent was to give all proceeds to charity while raising the profile of the bands and artists. MUSART raised thousands of dollars for charities such as the BC Cancer Foundation, Parkison's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis and many more.
With the funding bodies wanting to see the artists and bands being paid, MUSART decided to shift the money raised from the proceeds of the compilations to paying the artists and bands. Over the past years we changed to a download card and playlist access with a donation. Now we are focusing on paying artists with our funding and using donations as a bonus or tip to the artists.
