Hubcast Media's amazing Campus studio, located on rural 188 Street in the Port Kells area of Surrey, is busy in April with concerts featuring former Headpins singer Darby Mills (on Saturday, April 19) and also a local supergroup, Peacenik Collective, hosting a "Peace Party" with special guests (Sunday, April 27).
Mills' "True Story" event is billed as a "groundbreaking show from Canada’s 'Queen of Scream,'" blending live rock performance with "stunning cinematics and storytelling, taking audiences on an intimate high-energy musical and visual journey through Darby’s 48-year career."
With her Darby Mills Project band, she'll relive The Headpins’ chart-topping hits and rock anthems from Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, The Allman Brothers, Nazareth and more.
Show tickets are sold on hubcastnetwork.com, also an online hub for the Peace Party, a "'70s variety show" kind of event featuring music by Peacenik Collective members Cherelle Jardine and Scott Jackson from Stone Poets, Marc Gladstone (Stone Poets and Prism), Bruce Coughlan (Tiller's Folly), Gord Maxwell (Chilliwack) and Greg Stuart (Bo Diddley band).
Explains Jardine: "The band is on a passionate quest to spread a message of unity and community, peace and love through songs that connect and reflect who we are, and what we share as humans, while promoting equality, dignity and respect for all."
Peacenik Collective aims to bring the whole world "Back to Love," an uplifting new song included on a Spotify playlist, among others by the six band members. A new video, recorded at the Hubcast studios to promote the Peace Party, is posted to the band's Youtube channel.
Guest performers on April 27 will be Peruvian multi-instrumentalist Rene Hugo Sanchez and Rwandan-born soul singer/songwriter Ezra Kwizera. Tickets ($30) are sold on ticketbud.com, or stream it for $15 on hubcastnetwork.com.
Peter Young's Hubcast studio is built in a former barn, converted into a intimate concert venue with high-tech offerings. I first visited in 2019 when Brass Camel prog-rocked the place for the filming of ONSTAGE, a show on the Surrey-based JoyTV network.
