Vancouver
Just Blaze Showcase
Saturday, December 01, 2012 (7:00 PM - 2:00 AM) | 
Biltmore Cabaret 2755 Prince Edward Vancouver BC
Just Blaze Showcase
Featuring
Ko
Special Guest
Soundstem
Aviator Shades
Revaulter
and Chris Witoski
Featuring
Ko
Special Guest
Soundstem
Aviator Shades
Revaulter
and Chris Witoski
Van Sessions seeks out the best 19+ talent in the City to play shows at Vancouver’s most elite venues and then we let the MUSIC speak for itself.
The all new Van Sessions Showcase will let bands take the stage at awesome qualifier shows to prove their chops, leading to one massive final Battle to crown the most promising emerging artist on the Vancouver seen! Thousands of fans and tons of industry attend the Van Sessions shows; this is one of the best opportunities for bands to stand out in the Vancouver scene!
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Ko Kapches was raised in a middle-class Greek family in the Queen and Broadview area in Toronto, Ontario. After falling into the trap of using and selling a wide variety of drugs as a 14-year-old, he soon found himself on an odyssey of rehabilitation centres across the United States. “I lived on the streets of San Francisco for a little bit until I eventually got in touch with my parents after a few weeks,” Ko explains. “My father flew out and took me home, but I started living on the streets of Toronto anyways.”
Ko spent much of his time with friends in small studios, crafting his talents as a rapper while beginning to write songs and playing guitar. Ko began to develop his own unique style he refers to as both urban funk and urban folk. “I like to think of myself as a folk musician. But I’m not singing about country folk things, I’m singing about city folk things. I didn’t come from an impoverished background, but I still see things on the street every day.”
While Ko is still influenced by Toronto’s underground rap community, he also enjoys more mainstream rap and ranks such diverse artists as Everlast, Kid Rock, Ani DiFranco, Thelonious Monk and Van Morrison among his favourites. He even has a tattoo of a lyric from Neil Young’s “Down by the River” on his chest, Be on my side, I’ll be on your side.
Ko spent much of his time with friends in small studios, crafting his talents as a rapper while beginning to write songs and playing guitar. Ko began to develop his own unique style he refers to as both urban funk and urban folk. “I like to think of myself as a folk musician. But I’m not singing about country folk things, I’m singing about city folk things. I didn’t come from an impoverished background, but I still see things on the street every day.”
While Ko is still influenced by Toronto’s underground rap community, he also enjoys more mainstream rap and ranks such diverse artists as Everlast, Kid Rock, Ani DiFranco, Thelonious Monk and Van Morrison among his favourites. He even has a tattoo of a lyric from Neil Young’s “Down by the River” on his chest, Be on my side, I’ll be on your side.
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Saturday, December 01, 2012 (7:00 PM - 2:00 AM)
Biltmore Cabaret 2755 Prince Edward, VancouverBC
