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Coffeehouse Musician Profile. Kaeli and The Tyger

Our latest musician spotlight features Kaeili & The Tyger, a new Vancouver Indie band that carries a unique beat driven, alternative-pop sound. The trio will be playing at Trees Organic Coffee & Roasting House (Granville Street), August 24, 2018, 8 – 10pm, as part of the Vancouver Live Music nights on Fridays. Kaeli & The Tyger

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Coffeehouse Musician Profile. Kendall Goddard Band

Our musician spotlight features Kendall Goddard, of the Vancouver-based group The Kendall Goddard Band. The band will be performing on March 2, 2018 as part of our Friday Live Music Nights, along with Sidney Weich and Angie Faith from 8 – 10 pm, at Trees Organic Coffee and Roasting House on Granville Street.

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Coffeehouse Musician Profile. Jess Hart

Our latest musician spotlight is on Jess Hart, a rising talent in the British Columbia music scene. She’ll be performing on October 20 as part of our Friday coffeehouse live music night 8 – 10 pm (along with Feona Lim and Kieran Mercer) at Trees Organic Coffee & Roasting House on Granville Street.

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A Farewell to John Pippus

After 11+ amazing years, John Pippus is retiring from booking and hosting the Friday Live Music nights at our cafe on Granville Street. From all of us at Trees Organic Coffee, we thank John for his tremendous contributions to our music nights and his support of the Vancouver music community! His final bow is on

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Coffeehouse Musician Profile. Alexis Lynn

In our latest Coffeehouse Musician Profile, we’re proud to introduce you to Alexis Lynn who is a young singer-songwriter-musician from Surrey, B.C. and will be performing at Trees Organic Coffee & Roasting House (Granville Street) on May 19, 2017.

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Coffeehouse Musician Profile. JeffaCubed

Vancouver’s independent musician-singer-songwriter, JeffaCubed, is this month’s featured coffeehouse musician profile. He will be performing at Trees Organic Coffee on Granville Street on November 25th, 7:30pm, for a special music event that he inspired and helped organized – Coke Machine Show – a tribute to Gord Downie!

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Coffeehouse Musician Profile. Zulu Panda

This month’s coffeehouse musician profile features local singer-songwriter Zulu Panda, who will be performing at our weekly Friday live music event on October 28th. Vancouver-based Zulu Panda is an independent artist writing music with a blend of rock, folk, pop and grunge. His love of music began at age 16 when he learned to play

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Coffeehouse Musician Profile. Kendall Patrick

Kendall Patrick of Vancouver Island is the feature up-and-coming singer-songwriter in our latest coffeehouse musician profile. She will be performing at the live music event of Friday, August 26 at Trees Organic Coffee & Roasting House (Granville Street).

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Coffeehouse Musician Profile. Erzsi

This month’s musician spotlight for our Friday night live music series is Erzsi Institorisz, one of the rising young talents in the Vancouver music scene. She’ll be performing on the live music evening of March 25th at Trees Organic Coffee & Roasting House on Granville Street.

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Coffeehouse Musician Profile. David Alexander

For over 11+ years, Trees Organic Coffee & Roasting House has been offering live coffeehouse music entertainment at our flagship Granville Street café in Downtown Vancouver, along with your favourite coffee and cheesecake. Like you, we love supporting local talent, and from time-to-time we highlight a standout artist in an upcoming Friday night performance. For

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Open Mic Night Thursdays with Marq DeSouza

Thursday evenings come alive with aspiring performers and supportive spectators enjoying the weekly Trees Organic Vancouver Open Mic night at our Granville Street coffeehouse! Marq DeSouza has been successfully hosting the event for several years. We recently caught up with him to hear the latest about the Open Mic nights and his music career. Vancouver

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Coffeehouse Musician Profile. Kristina Lao

Friday nights at Trees Organic Coffeehouse (Granville Street) come alive with music to accompany our popular organic coffee and famous cheesecakes!  For years, the weekly lineup of musical entertainment has been carefully curated and hosted by music legend, John Pippus.  The list of upcoming acts in April is sure to impress.  One artist that stands

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Coffeehouse Musician Profile. Jodi Doidge

Where in Vancouver can you experience the best cheesecake, organic coffee, and live music? Only at Trees Organic! There’s an extraordinary lineup, in March, of musical talent for our popular and weekly Friday live music nights at our flagship Granville Street coffeehouse. To kick things off, performances by Jodi Doidge, Haley Blais, and the Familiar Wild band are

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Coffeehouse Musician Profile. Cameron Hawes

This February, we’re still serving up some amazing coffeehouse musical entertainment along with our award-winning cheesecake and organic coffee beans. One performer we’re especially looking forward to hearing live is Cameron Hawes, a talented pop, blues and folk-influenced performer from the east coast (They sure have more than their fair share!). We caught up with

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Coffeehouse Musician Profile. Doug Koyama

The Trees Organic coffeehouse has hosted plenty of eclectic musicians over the years, and next month, we have Doug Koyama, a unique performer who never fails to intrigue and engage his audience. When you come down to enjoy your coffee, cheesecake and other favourites as you listen in to this local legend, you’ll be in

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Coffeehouse Musician Profile. Brian O’Brien

Sit down and enjoy a latte. Have a slice of cheesecake. Listen to some extraordinary musical entertainment in one of downtown Vancouver’s most popular coffeehouse venues. Our cafe at 450 Granville Street continues to feature some amazingly talented artists this month. Open mic Thursdays and Live Music Fridays are the go-to nights for any local

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Celebrate International Coffee Day With Us

Canadians love their coffee. Putting aside tap water, coffee is actually the most popular beverage in the country. Sixty-five percent of Canadians between the ages of 18 and 79 would say they drank coffee yesterday, according to a recent study by the Coffee Association of Canada. Actually, Canada is second only to Italy for the

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Coffeehouse Musician Profile. Winsome Kind

Continuing this fall, Trees Organic’s flagship Granville Street cafe offers more musical entertainment for you to enjoy with a slice of cheesecake and your favourite coffeehouse drink. One of our upcoming acts on Friday, September 19 is Winsome Kind, including the local multi-talented musician Scott Perrie performing and the formidable singer Leora Joy, a member of

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Coffeehouse Musician Profile. Raquel Cole

Once again, the live music night venue at our Granville Street cafe brings you the best coffeehouse tunes you’re going to get anywhere from Vernon BC to Nashville, Tennessee — which just happens to follow the musical trajectory of the talented Raquel Cole. This young BC-born guitarist with a distinctive country style recently picked up Best

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Celebrate National Cheesecake Day July 30
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Celebrate National Cheesecake Day on July 30

We’re celebrating National Cheesecake Day on Wednesday, July 30th!* To celebrate, our cafes are offering all our cheesecakes, in all flavours, by the slice and whole cheesecakes, for half price on July 30! You read that right: Trees Organic cheesecake for ½ price July 30. Bet you wish National Cheesecake Day came around a lot

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Coffeehouse Musician Profile. Raine Hamilton

  Live music nights at our flagship Granville Street coffeehouse are always a good time, with talented performers, welcoming cafe culture and of course, plenty of plates of our famous cheesecake all around. The lineup of musicians this month is as good as ever, with a mix of singer-songwriters and instrumental aficionados to keep your

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Coffeehouse Musician Profile. Tessa Mouzourakis

As usual, we’ve got some amazing musical lineups at our music nights at our flagship Granville Street cafe. This Friday, the talented Tessa Mouzourakis performs at our coffeehouse stage. Winner of the international musical competition, Your Voice in the Park for her video, The Kid in Me, this local singer-songwriter has garnered plenty of radio play and

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Coffeehouse Musician Profile. Deborah Holland

We’ve hosted plenty of the most talented musicians around Vancouver and beyond at our live music nights at our Granville Street cafe — but we’ve got a special performer next month that’s not to be missed: Deborah Holland is a singer-songwriter who has played with some of the biggest names in music; with Police (yes, those

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Coffeehouse Musician Profile. Emma Plant

Looking for a fresh sound and a fun time as you get out and about in the Spring weather? Every Thursday and Friday, we feature some of the most talented musicians around at our flagship Granville Street cafe at our open mic and live music nights. Experience some great tunes in our cozy coffeehouse as

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Coffeehouse Musician Profile. Cory Hawthorne

Our live music nights continue every Thursday and Friday at our flagship Granville Street cafe, serving up top-notch tunes by some of Vancouver’s most talented musicians. You can come down every week and enjoy a unique mix of music with your latte, cheesecake or whatever else makes your heart sing. Coming up on Friday, March

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Coffeehouse Musician Profile. Familiar Wild

If you’re thinking of checking out one of Trees Organic’s live music nights at our lively coffeehouse on Granville Street in February, you’ll want to be there for a band that “takes you by the hand — but also takes you by surprise.” Familiar Wild is a Vancouver band with a distinct sound, switching off

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Coffeehouse Musician Profile. Eric Hadley

For your musical entertainment, Vancouver singer-songwriter Eric Hadley performs live at our flagship Granville coffeehouse along with Kirk Wohlgeschaffen and Faith Numada this Friday, Dec. 20 starting at 8 pm. These coffeehouse live music nights are a great way to experience the amazing talent in this city — all while enjoying your favourite coffee and cheesecake in a casual atmosphere.

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Open Mic Nights & Music Nights at Our Lively Coffeehouse

If you’ve hung out at our flagship Granville Street cafe on a Thursday or Friday night anytime over the last several years, you’ve likely been treated to some amazing live entertainment. Thursday evenings are Open Mic nights, featuring anything from coffeehouse tunes to improv and maybe even a standup routine. Friday nights, we get some

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Fall Features Pumpkin Spice Cheesecake and Seasonal Lattes

This October and November, you can enjoy our Pumpkin Spice Cheesecake, Pumpkin Spice Latte, Brown Sugar Cinnamon Latte and Chai Latte at Trees Organic cafes — with seasonally-inspired flavours that we’ve all loved since our childhoods. Our Pumpkin Spice Cheesecake is rich and creamy, with subtle tastes and textures of fresh from the country harvest. If

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A Neighborly Roundup of August Events Around Our Cafes

We’re lucky that all of our cafes are pretty much in the hearts of Vancouver’s diverse communities. From fireworks to festivals and pedestrian-only streets on weekends, events keep the neighborhoods bustling from Granville to Gastown, Kitsilano and beyond. After you drop by for a cup of your favorite coffee, here’s what you can see and

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Tasting Plates at Our Arbutus Cafe! Try the Coffee and Cheesecake

Tasting Plates Vancouver is a new event to tantalize your tastebuds, presented by Vancouver Foodster (whom you may recall from the recent Cheesecake Challenge where locals once more voted us in for best cheesecake in Vancouver!). Trees Organic’s cafe at 2655 Arbutus St. in Kitsilano is proud to participate for this one-day tasting extravaganza on April 14

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New Trees Organic Cafe Grand Opening on Arbutus

We’re now serving up tasty organic coffee for Vancouver in more locations than ever — and you’re invited! Come one, come all to the Grand Opening of Trees Organic Coffee & Roasting House’s newest location at 2655 Arbutus St. (near Broadway) on February 7. At our new location, you’ll find the fresh-roasted, great-tasting organic coffee

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Open Mic Night at Trees Organic Starts Feb. 7

Trees Organic Coffee & Roasting House’s flagship Granville cafe is proud to introduce a new Open Mic Night happening Thursday nights from 8-10 pm for Vancouver’s rising stars to perform their hearts out! (Our regularly-scheduled Live Music Nights are still happening Friday nights, continuing to be hosted talented singer/songwriter John Pippus. Check out this interview

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Join the Downtown Eastside Women’s Center Fundraiser

Tweet Join us for coffee on Thursday, September 20 2012, as all four Trees Organic cafes will donate $1 from every coffee and espresso-based beverage sold to the Vancouver Downtown Eastside Women’s Center. We are also collecting items of clothing and unused toiletries. Funds raised will help provide daily meals to more than 300 women

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Trees Organic’s Yaletown Café 3rd Anniversary Aug. 30

Trees Organic Coffee House’s café in Yaletown at 1391 Richards Street is having its third birthday on Thursday, August 30 and you’re invited! There’s going to be free samples of Trees’ award-winning cheesecake, prizes and more. “Has it really been three years?” asks Trees Organic café owner Doron Levy with a smirk. “But seriously, we’re

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Trees Organic Coffee and Gourmet Chocolate Tasting

(Note: This event is being rescheduled! Sorry for the inconvenience — we will update you as soon as we have a new date selected!) We love coffee. Everybody loves chocolate. We got together with our friends at Urge Chocolates and decided to do something about that – and you’re invited! Join us for a gourmet

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Trees Music Nights Now in Gastown and Granville Cafes

Many of our cafe customers of our flagship cafe on Granville Street know that Trees has Live Music Nights every Thursday and Friday evening, starting at 8 pm, featuring some of the most talented singers and musicians this city has to offer. Every week, we see incredible performances that liven up our nights and put

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Enter to Win Our Online Golden Bean Easter Hunt

Ever been on an Easter Egg hunt? The upcoming Easter holiday is a time of rebirth and renewal where Canadians spend with family; many of us have enjoyed the more fun traditions we now associate with this time of year; egg-decorating, eating chocolate bunnies and chocolate eggs and – maybe the most popular part for

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7 Reasons to Have Your Next Meetup at Trees Cafe

Vancouver is a cold, cliquey kind of town? Really? Don’t believe it. There are 713 groups on Meetup.com in the Vancouver area alone, along with dozens of events listed on Facebook and over 1,000 local professional networking groups on LinkedIn. Our Yaletown, Gastown, Richmond and Granville cafes are the perfect cozy locations for your next

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Music Night at the Café. Talking with John Pippus

Every Thursday and Friday night on Trees Café in Granville Street in downtown Vancouver, local musical greats sing and play their hearts out on a very intimate live music stage. Musician John Pippus rounds up the talent for these evenings of coffeehouse revelry and occasionally takes a spot on stage himself to entertain the caffeinated

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Yaletown Mini-Market at Trees Cafe

Yaletown mini market cafe coffeehouse gift ideas holiday XmasYou’re invited to the Yaletown Mini-Market at Trees Organic Coffee and Roasting House in Vancouver’s Yaletown neighborhood (1391 Richards Street, at the corner of Richards and Pacific) on special days through November and December.

Check out some unique holiday gift ideas and and support your local creative entrepreneurs, jewelry makers and other artisans.

Supporting Yaletown small businesspeople with creative products

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Musical Guests at Trees Cafes for the Summer

music entertainment events Vancouver cafes Granville YaletownMore music nights at Trees Organic cafes in Vancouver!

Thursday, July 21, 2011 —

Granville St. hosts two bands accustomed to touring and acclaim: Indie-folk-rock Alberta boys, Layten Kramer & The Eerie Green, presenting you tunes from their new album, Lost in the Woods; The Little Stevies, a seasoned Australian trio, light up Vancouver’s grey nights with the folk-pop harmonies of their album, Attention Shoppers.

Friday, July 22, 2011 –

Granville St. eases you into your weekend with a night of alternative-pop: Kate Morgan, who having shared the 2010 Lilith Fair stage with her idols, is a well-respected talent in the Canadian music scene; Nadia von Hahn, an effervescent, alternative-pop fixture in popular live music venues across BC; Nat Jay, whose accomplished song writing set the stage for songs from her bold album, Lights Across the Sky, to be picked up by international festivals and TV series; Winston Hauschild, a dedicated, genuine performer and producer whose solo album, Limited, and ensemble effort, Passengers, brought him notoriety in their creativity and realism.

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This Week’s Music Nights at Trees Organic Cafes

This Week’s Music Night Line-up at Trees Organic’s Granville and Yaletown locations

Music Night Thursday, July 14, 2011 in Downtown Vancouver at 450 Granville St

Trees Organic at Granville St. brings you a solid roster of talented young men: David Borys, a country/rock stud, whose band, The Steel Toe Boots, is known for impressing upon his audiences the importance of coming to a show ready to party; Adam Bailie, whose alternative pop/rock vocals are reminiscent of David Gray and Damien Rice; Neal Ryan, an Irish Vancouverite with a songbook of introspective, soft ballads with which to get cozy in the summer rain.

Music Night Friday, July 15, 2011 at our central Granville and Yaletown cafes: 450 Granville St and 1391 Richards St.

Trees Organic at Granville St. is hosting another trio of songbirds with whom to while away an evening tucked into a creamy slice of our signature cheesecake. We’ll be featuring: Sadie Donovan, to spice up the weekend with her locally-honed vocals she’s shared with many a festival crowd; Bernie Boulanger, a folk/country acoustic storyteller; Ben Rogers, a seasoned folk singer/songwriter and an old soul with a guitar.

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Cafe Comfort

It’s crisp on this early morning in Vancouver, and the Canada Line sky train crew has already been hard at work for hours just steps outside the doors of the Granville street cafe. I’m cold, my head is pounding and all I need is my morning fix to get this day off to a better start.

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