01 THURSDAY

G. Love & Special Sauce

Commodore Ballroom, show 9: 30 p. m. G. Love steps away from his usual hip- hop- infl ected blues on his 14th album, Fixin’ To Die. New friends Scott and Seth Avett ( of country group The Avett Brothers), who both played on, and produced, the record, lure G to a more rootsy, trad- blues sound that’s sincere and vigorous. Banjo, upright bass, and Dobro abound, amid hand and foot percussion, and plenty of harmonica.

Carmen Aguirre

Christianne’s Lyceum of Literature and Art, 7 p. m. The Vancouver playwright, actor and author, whose controversial memoir Something Fierce recently won the 2012 edition of CBC’S Canada Reads, speaks about themes of the book, two of which are terror and revolution.