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The HBI is Quadra Island's place to be! From live jazz music and rockin' dance covers to Canucks hockey on the big screen and free pool on Sundays, there's fantastic food and entertainment every day at the HBI! Below is the latest calendar of events, or if you prefer, here's a pdf. See you soon at the Heriot Bay Inn!

Herons hours: 8 am - 7 pm Sun-Thurs; 8 am - 8 pm Friday & Saturday. Please check the calendar for dates which Herons is closed for special events. See you at the HBI!

There's always great events happening at the Inn!

Friday nights are more fun when you are at the Heriot Bay Inn. Some wicked live music in the HBI Pub... "rock solid February" as the poster says. So check out the Blue Kats(vintage r&r and r&b), and Cortes Mixed Greens (funky psychedelic rock from one island over!), as well as Curl (all girl blues band) and Blackberry Wood (country, circus, ragtime. basically, just awesome.) See you in the Pub? Of course! Bands start at 9 pm.

Yes! Shari Ulrich, Tom Taylor and Barney Bentall are coming back to Herons! Saturday Feb 25th is the date for the dinner and concert. Tickets are $55 and include a scrumptious three course dinner from chef Catherine Berg. If you want to be here (and of course you do) then reserve now: call 250.285.3322.

Everyone's favourite campfire instrument? Maybe not quite yet, but after you listen to the sweet Hawaiian jazz stylings of Jazzalele in the Fireside Lounge you may have a longing to take a ukulele camping, or learn how to play one!

As well as the Saturday evening performance (7 pm/$15 at the door), there are three ukulele workshops scheduled for Sunday. Workshops are $20. Details below the poster...

BEGINNER WORKSHOP (ages 8 to adult)
Beginner Ukulele is very fun and easy to learn...

  • Tension-free Introduction to the ukulele
  • Learn how to hold the ukulele
  • Simple chords and how to easily move from one chord to another
  • Introduction to Hawaiian style strumming
  • Impress your friends with a Fancy Tremolo
  • Introduction to tablature using single notes
  • Easy but fun songs!

INTERMEDIATE WORKSHOP (teen - adult)
How to get more excitement and pleasure out of your ukulele...

  • Bigger sounds with smaller efforts (don't move if you don't have to)
  • The Hawaiian Turnaround
  • Introduction to the Hawaiian Triplet strum
  • Venturing up to mid-neck chords using "positions"
  • Augment your playing pleasure with the diminished chord.
  • Spicing up your playing by adding contrast
  • Intro to tab with more than one note at a time


ADVANCED WORKSHOP (16 to adult)
Extreme ukulele for experienced players...

  • Chord Melody techniques
  • Fingerpicking tabs
  • Diminished chord runs
  • The Hawaiian Triplet Strum and where and how to use it
  • Moveable chords
  • Playing "fill" behind another player (sweet notes played rhythmically)
  • Chromatic "Sliding"

Oscar Night... bingo and other fun as can only happen in the HBI Pub. Wear something red carpet? Oh go on, you should. (Every excuse to celebrate fun.) Watch the fab outfits as they stroll the red carpet... oh yes, and there are awards too. It starts early: 4 pm in the HBI Pub.

Not to make you feel bad, but here's a peak at what's been happening at the Inn:

The Sweet Lowdown playing in the Heriot Bay Inn Pub.

Todd Butler is coming to perform January 27 at the Heriot Bay Inn!tequila mockingbirds are coming to the heriot bay inn!

New Years Eve in the Heriot Bay Inn Pub on Quadra Island: fun times.

a Storied brunch: Christmas traditions continue.

Big Small Office Party at the Heriot Bay Inn

open hearts, open voices: a christmas music revue

Hallowe'en at the Heriot Bay Inn is sure to be a wickedly fun time.

David Francey on Quadra ISland at the Heriot Bay Inn November 3.

anna atkinson in the Fireside Lounge at the Heriot Bay Inn on Quadra Island

Fall into Winter -- Quadra Children's Centre fundraiser.

dinner jazz at the Heriot Bay Inn every summer Sunday evening in Herons!

Host Ryan Webb brings the fun: Rock and roll bingo, and a martini contest, August, Mondays, HBI Pub.

Fun music...a band to dance to, every Friday night in the HBI Pub.

Leo party in the HBI Pub. Quadra Island Rocks...

Discovery Islands Festival of Chamber Music

live music every Friday in the HBI Pub

Valdy! dinner and concert with acclaimed musician Valdy June 11 at the Heriot Bay Inn.

Lusciously Loka Fashion Show in Herons at the Heriot Bay Inn June 12, 2011

UofQ Prom 2011 in the Heriot Bay Inn Pub Wednesday June 1 at 8:30 pm

gyspy swing dance with Pablo Doherty Trio May 6 at the Heriot Bay Inn

brown paper bag, the band, is playing Herons at the Heriot Bay Inn. See you there.

WHODUNNIT? We'll all know Saturday April 9 when LIGHTS, CAMERA, MURDER happens in Herons at the Heriot Bay Inn. Join Producer Sarah Bible for a "night of secrets, celebrities and scandal". Get dressed up and get in on the action! Tickets are $49 (includes dinner). Or stay at the Inn, $99 includes dinner and a room too! All the details of your character are revealed after you make your reservation. Call now (or soon), there are a limited number of spaces available. (250.285.3322)

poetry and blues with Linda Rogers, Rick van Krugel and Harold Rhenisch

Brave New Waves are going to ska-rock the HBI!

Patricia Robertson, author, speaking at the Heriot Bay Inn

 

 

There's a hoe-down at the HBI Pub Sunday afternoons this winter! C'mon down for the Sunday Afternoon Country Music Jam with host Steve Trayler.  It's happening 3pm - 6pm in the HBI Pub.

 


 

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