{"id":483357,"date":"2026-02-18T16:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/483357\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T16:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:33:19","slug":"arkells-announce-3-small-venue-concerts-in-vancouver-this-spring-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/483357\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkells announce 3 small-venue concerts in Vancouver this spring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arkells announce 3 small-venue concerts in Vancouver this spring<\/p>\n

Published 10:42 am Tuesday, February 17, 2026<\/p>\n

Several Vancouver-area concerts were announced Tuesday by Live Nation Entertainment including a trio of small-venue shows by high-energy Canadian band Arkells and a \u201cConstellation\u201d of acts at the PNE\u2019s new Freedom Mobile Arch.<\/p>\n

To celebrate a new Between Us album this spring, Arkells are doing a three-night stand in Vancouver including May 7 at The Penthouse strip club, May 8 at Hollywood Theatre in Kitsilano and May 9 at the legendary Commodore Ballroom, in addition to club shows in Edmonton and Calgary.<\/p>\n

Arkells frontman Max Kerman says playing multiple nights in each city \u201clets us do something that feels deeply important right now: introduce new music, stretch out across our entire catalogue, and create a different experience each night. And yes \u2014 every sing-along you\u2019ve been waiting for. With three nights, everybody gets cake \u2014 and we\u2019re eating all of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ticket sales start Friday, Feb. 20 at 10 a.m., with fan pre-sales Feb. 18. Sign up for pre-sale access at arkellsmusic.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In other concert news, the PNE\u2019s new Freedom Mobile Arch will be a stage for Thee Sacred Souls, LA LOM and The Womack Sisters on Aug. 9. The bands will bring \u201cheart-melting harmonies, genre-blurring grooves and timeless soul on their Constellation Tour across North America,\u201d Live Nation announced.<\/p>\n

At UBC, Young the Giant is set to perform at at Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre on July 24 on a Victory Garden tour date, with Cold War Kids and KennyHoopla opening.<\/p>\n

In Coquitlam, veteran American troubadour Steve Earle will perform at Great Canadian Casino on July 27, with another B.C. concert date July 18 at Kelowna Community Theatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arkells announce 3 small-venue concerts in Vancouver this spring Published 10:42 am Tuesday, February 17, 2026 Several Vancouver-area…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-483357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}