An upcoming show will be at the Vancouver Public Library courtyard downtown.<\/p>\n
Nathanial Young’s concert venues aren’t your typical spots, like the Leeside Skatepark<\/a>, a Portland subway station<\/a>\u00a0and a cave in Tofino<\/a>.<\/p>\n The L.A.-based improvisational saxophone player has garnered a couple of million followers (while still appearing to hold down a job as a server) playing his tenor or soprano saxophone in those sorts of places and sharing his point of view (which explains his social media handle<\/a> @nathanialpov<\/a>).<\/p>\n He’s returned to Vancouver<\/a> this week (earlier this year he played a full hour-long set in the tunnel at Leeside Skatepark<\/a>) to play more of his signature pop-up shows around B.C.’s South Coast, including the aforementioned Tofino cave<\/a>\u00a0(he often plays in places that offer interesting reverberations and echoes).<\/p>\n He doesn’t always give much notice for his shows, but two are coming up for sure. Thursday night (Oct. 8), he’ll be playing in the cave in Tofino again at 6:30 p.m. for one hour.<\/p>\n Then, on Friday\u00a0(Oct. 9), he’s playing in a very different, and easier to access place: the downtown Vancouver library courtyard.<\/p>\n “I\u2019m volunteering to do this because I think it\u2019s extremely fun and the glass reverb is so perfect for the soprano saxophone,” he writes on social media.\u00a0“I also think it\u2019d be nice if everyone checked out a book from the library before I play and you can read it during the performance.”<\/p>\n