Scene & Heard chats with Mel Warner, the man behind Vancouver’s leading promoters of West Indian culture – Mel-O Productions. Warner talks what makes a great dance party, up and coming artists and some of the challenges to bringing reggae and soca to the Northern lands.

Lucas Trottier sings in prog-death metal band Kymatica, whose self-title debut album drops on March 18, 2014. Lucas, a martial arts school teacher and heavy metal musician talks with Scene & Heard host Stuart Derdeyn about how karate and powerchords compliment each other.

Drummer/composer Dylan van Der Schyff talks about the Vancouver Improvised Music Meeting 2014. The weekend of two nights of performances at two different venues gives both seasoned and up-and-coming players a chance to get together under the wing of free playing and performance.

Daphne Roubini runs Ruby’s Ukes Ukulele School which runs packed out classes at a location on Seymour Street. She talks about the rise of the instrument’s popularity and sings some blues on this episode of Scene & Heard with Stuart Derdeyn.

Spencer Welch runs the Spencer Welch Vocal Studio, a Vancouver-based training centre supplying everyone from singers and radio DJs to animation voice actors with the chops they need to do their job.

Jay Malinowski rode to the top of the charts with Bedouin Soundclash. After a three year-long hiatus, the songwriter returns with a string quartet- based concept album around his seafaring ancestor Charles Martel.

Province scribe Stuart Derdeyn speaks with Michelle Faehrmann about her group Four on the Floor String Quartet, the second annual String Fling event and what goes into producing this year’s performance.

B.C. singer/songwriter Lyndsay May had her album Girl with Grit almost finished when her life was turned upside down. Hear her tell how she turned it back around and launched her career with, well, the gritty and the smooth in equal measure.

Host Stuart Derdeyn chats with Bill Kerasiotis who learned the ropes of running entertainment venues working in the family business at legendary venues such as Luv-A-Fair and Graceland.

Alvaro Prol, founder and CEO of Blueprint Events, discusses sixteen years of presenting all-ages events.