American musician Jonah Kagen was looking forward to opening for singer Sam Barber at an Aug. 11 show at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre . Unfortunately, the show was postponed due to Barber having a vocal injury.

Rather than lose a great opportunity to introduce local audiences to songs from his debut album Sunflowers and Leather, the singer-songwriter decided to head down to David Lam Park and play a pop-up solo show for anyone who showed up.

“Sam’s bus didn’t even make it up to Vancouver due to his vocal injury and just headed straight to Portland from Tacoma,” said Kagen. “I went kind of rogue, to be honest, heading up to town on my own to do a lounge earlier in the day at the PEAK FM. During that time, I kept getting social media messages asking about the show and wasn’t in any positi

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