Laura Ramoso: The Calm Down Tour

country guy plays victoria on sunday. you'll either love it or pretend to.

dune rats at studio 919, saturday. rock band, former wicket hall venue.

Fruit Bats at Capital Ballroom, Saturday. Rock band, formerly a nightclub, Victoria.

cat clyde plays blues at studio 919 wednesday. someone has to pick the venue.

steph tolev roasts the world wednesday at mcpherson playhouse, victoria

laura ramoso at royal theatre wednesday. someone's getting roasted.

Free live music every night inside one of Victoria's most gorgeous rooms, in the old Bank of British Columbia, until 1am.

Order The Volcano (it's on fire), book the karaoke room, and accept that tonight is going to be a story.

Seven nights of live Celtic fiddle, the largest Irish whiskey list in Canada, and 1am doors on Bastion Square.

Cash-only, peanut shells on the floor, bras stapled to the ceiling: Victoria's most beloved dive bar open until 2am.

Twenty-nine craft taps, a late kitchen with a following and a historic brick courtyard open till midnight every night in Victoria.

A coal baron built a 39-room sandstone castle, died before moving in, and accidentally created Victoria's best self-guided date.

A woolly mammoth, a walkable old BC town you can actually wander through, and a First Peoples gallery that'll stop you cold.

A 1890s Fernwood church turned theatre so intimate the actors skip the mics, and the pubs are right outside.