This Halloween, gather up your courage and enter beautiful venues turned eerie for special concerts featuring thrilling soundtracks that will bring a chill to your spine! At these extraordinary Candlelight concerts, our eyes and ears are tricked and treated with spellbinding music and the warm glow from hundreds of twinkling candles.
Christ Church and Kerrisdale Presbyterian Church will be lighting up this October to host these spine-tingling concerts by Candlelight. Shadows flicker on the walls, accompanying the violins’ ominous yet melodic heralding of All Hallows’ Eve; this thrilling combination of sound and sight heightens all of our senses, preparing us for whatever may be lurking around the corner.
Haunted Evenings of Halloween Classics
This coming October, Candlelight is bringing multiple special shows to Kerrisdale Presbyterian Church and Christ Church Cathedral. With countless flickering candles illuminating each unique space, the Candlelight concerts make for the perfect fall evenings featuring 60 mesmerizing minutes of terrific tunes to celebrate the spooky season. From iconic tracks like Michael Jackson’s Thriller and The Rocky Horror Picture Show’s Time Warp to the chilling scores heard in movies like The Exorcist and Halloween, these songs will be performed by a string quartet as a sea of candles flickers away.
Friday the 13th Special – Favorite Halloween Movie Themes
This October, the 13th falls on a Friday, making it the perfect day to celebrate the frightening festivities with a candlelit concert at Kerrisdale Presbyterian Church. The evening will be solely dedicated to terrifying film scores that accompany some of the most iconic horror movies ever made. The hair on the back of your neck will stand to attention as the eerie melodies of songs from movies including A Nightmare on Elm Street and Psycho circle around some of Vancouver’s most beautiful settings.
Whether you’re looking for a night out to celebrate the spooky season or just a unique classical concert, Candlelight is an experience unlike any other, and you won’t want to miss out. Have a spookily good Halloween and experience the magic of these intimate candlelit concerts inside some of Vancouver’s most remarkable locations.
The Candlelight series takes place twice each night with two 60-minute performances and doors will open 45 minutes prior to each show.
Note: For the safety of our audience, all of the candlelight will be provided through flameless candles.