Updated: May 8, 2025

Looking forward to the 39 Days of July Festival on Vancouver Island in Duncan…5:00-5:45 pm on Wed July 16. Calling all Vancouver Island friends to come on out! (This is me from 1994 with my New Orleans friends…)

 

 

 

• • PUMP BOYS & DINETTES has closed for now, but we’ll be back in the fall!!! We had a fantastic run at the Shaw Theatre in Deep Cove (North Vancouver), and will be remounting the production in September (@ Coquitlam’s Evergreen Cultural Centre), October (Nanaimo) and November (Courtenay). Check back in the summer here or at First Impressions Theatre  for ticket and venue information…see all y’all REAL soon!
  • That Was Then was named the 2024 Outstanding New Musical by the OVATION! Awards committee…thanks to Scott Ashton Swan and APPLAUSE! Musicals in Concert for producing these awards every year to celebrate the Lower Mainland’s musical theatre community. I also had a blast performing “Emotional Baggage” from the show with Sabrielle McCurdy (nominee for her performance as “Sarah”) and Rose McNeil (“Emily”). As Scott always says…GO SEE A MUSICAL!
  • Thanks for making GODSPELL a success! I was proud to music direct this iconic show from 1971 for Play On Words Productions, which ran November 13-17, 2024 at the Canadian Memorial Church in Vancouver…every song has become an earworm! (Day by day by day by day by day…)
  • Another sold out show @ Aperture Coffee Bar! Thanks to everyone who braved the October rain to be at the show…I’ll be back in the new year!
  • Thanks to everyone who came to see SMASHUP! at the end of August…what a fun final show for Fabulist Theatre. Congratulations to co-founders Mary Littlejohn and Damon Jung for a productive and successful 8 years of creativity. Wishing you all the best in your next endeavours!
  • Thanks to everyone who came out for my book launch at Aperture Coffee Bar on June 1! If you haven’t yet ordered your copy of my illustrated book of lyrics, “That Was Then, this is now and other stories of my Life So Far”, click here – $20 includes delivery!
  • 2024 is the 30th anniversary of “Stuck In The Wrong Lane” and I’m so excited to share this new video, created by Kaylar Chan (@k4yl4r.sax) and Ryley Kirkpatrick (@ryleykirkpatrick)”…click here to view
  • Creating original cast recordings of my two musicals, “That Was Then” and “This Is Now” has begun! Projected release in 2025 with a concert presentation of the music featuring Kathleen Doerksen, Sabrielle McCurdy, Lorna McLennan, Rose McNeil, Kaja Tecza and Katrina Teitz. If you’d like to be one of the first to know about when and where it’s happening as well as how to buy tickets and the CD, send me a message: kate [@] katemaccoll.com
  • Thanks for making the premiere run of, “That Was Then”, so successful! The performances on January 20, 2024 were filmed by Collide Entertainment – you can view the entire show or relive your favourite scenes again from both “That Was Then AND “This Is Now” on this website! Licensing enquiries to: thatwasthenmusical [@] gmail.com / thisisnowmusical [@] gmail.com
  • ReVERVE thanks everyone who attended our concerts on December 3rd, 2023 @ The NEST on Granville Island (Vancouver, BC)! Video highlights of the concert are now available here…future concerts will be announced here – be sure to check back regularly!
  • Visit my Recordings & Videos page to check out the results of my day at Frequency Sound 528 in June 2022 with recording engineer Jodie Bruce and Kelowna musicians Nils Loewen (cello) and Chloe Davidson (violin).
  • CD COMPILATION AVAILABLE: “Somebody Else Take the Wheel”, is available for download and streaming on all your favourite platforms – get the full list with links on the Recordings & Videos page, where you will also find printable versions of the front and back covers; SCORES for all 12 recordings included on “Somebody Else Take the Wheel” now appear on my new Merchandise page. Perhaps learning to play the piano was your COVID hobby and you need some new music to practise?
  • Many thanks to Elektra Women’s Choir for their stunning second performance on March 9th, 2019 of my commissioned arrangement of “Little Green”, written by Joni Mitchell…the concert’s title – When The Spring Is Born – is, in fact, taken from a lyric in this heart-wrenching song. The arrangement was premiered by Elektra at a concert to mark the VSO’s 100th anniversary on January 28th, 2019. Thank you to Morna Edmundson, artistic director, for her continued support of my work, and of the women composers and arrangers featured exclusively for this concert, programmed in celebration of International Women’s Day. PLANS FOR PUBLISHING THIS ARRANGEMENT ARE (still) IN PROGRESS but I’m happy to report that as of June 2024, discussions are now FINALLY moving forward, although still very slowly – STAY TUNED!! If you are interested in performing this arrangement with your women’s choir, send me a message directly: kate [@] katemaccoll.com