CATES PARK CONCERT SERIES
The Cates Park Concert Series is a free, outdoor concert series that occurs on Saturdays in July and August from 4pm to 7pm on the waterfront stage in front of the food concession in Cates Park.
This series provides the opportunity for exposure for original bands and artists to the local community.
2019 LINE-UP
July 13
Fear the Wolves
Highland Eyeway
Reed
July 20
Victoria and the Secrets
Theory of Roses
July 27
Acoustic Ghosts
Symentha Holmes
Delan
Aug 3
Horse Opera
Cat Murphy Band
The Ship Of
Aug 10
Ahsley Pater &
Destination Unknown
Eye Bender
Ilhan Saferali
Aug 17
Antoinette and the Latest
Kyoga
Bealby Point
Aug 24
Sarah J
Augustiner
Ryan Fischer
HISTORY
The Cates Park Concert Series was developed in the summer of 1997 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 and that it 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. This series grew from there and has featured over hundreds of bands and artists to date.
THE CATES PARK
COMPILATION CD
The Cates Park Concert Series Compilation Album first started in 2001. The original intent was to give all proceeds to charity while raising the profile of the bands and artists. While the songs were originally sold on a CD, they are now offered as a free download in exchange for a donation of $10 or more to the Musart Cultural Society.
In the past, 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.
