Music: Mark Berube / Roger Dean Young and The Tin Cup

(9 pm, $10)

• Venue: The Wise Club Hall (1882 Adanac St., Vancouver, BC)

Revered alt-roots musician, Copperspine recording artist Roger Dean Young & The Tin Cup play beautifully sparse, quiet, poignant music. Roger Dean Young guitar, vocals; Chris Rippin guitar, piano; Shaun Brodie trumpet; Cary Pratt drums

www.tincupmusic.com

At 9 years old, he was among a dancing crowd of 10,000 watching the late South African pop star Brenda Fassie at Somhlolo Soccer Stadium in Swaziland. With apartheid still strong next door in South Africa, this concert reverberated on many levels: musically, socially, and politically. Mix this life-defining experience with Manitoban-Quebecois roots, a stylistically diverse musical repertoire, the piano, accordion, guitar and a voice that disarms his audiences, and you have the multi-faceted sound of Mark Berube.

www.markberube.com