Friday 8:30 – 12:30 – every First Friday of the month!$ 10.00 cover.
Saturday Jan 4th.
Matthew Presidente / Tara C Taylor – live @ the Kozmik Zoo
Matthew and Tara perform seperate sets and together as a duo at the Kozmik Zoo! We are going to ring in 2014 with some kick ass music. Join us. There will be guest appearances, drinking, fun, food & lights. Probably some amazing outfits too. Oh, and it’s one of Tara’s last shows with Matthew in town! Catch her while she’s still Canadian!!! ▼

Every Sunday Evening ▼▼▼Best improv Comedy group in Canada 2012Best Improvisers (male and female) nominations/wins in Canada9 pm / $7
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Tuesday Jan 7th + Tuesday jan 21st ▲▲▲
ROCKET SCIENCE 8:00PM By Donation 2 for 1 Pasta Night
Amazing Original Music .8 pm
Cover By Donation – 2for 1 Pasta Night!
Rock, Jazz,Blues with some of the heaviest players in Vancouver,
Rocket Science are:
Guitar Simon Jarrett
Bass/vocals – Billy Mendoza
Drums – Chris Meister
Keys/vocals – Rod Salloum

Wed Jan 8th 8 pm By Donation ▲▲
Double Trouble: Anita Eccleston Quartet ft. Elizabeth Eccleston
+ Fist Full o’ Snacks
Double Trouble: Aided and abetted by her twin sister, TBSO Oboediva Extraordinaire Liz Eccleston, these wikked little grrrls are gonna stir up some serious sexy at The Kozmik Zoo with tunes that predate recordings to songs so sick they just got released! Cover by donation. Come party your ass off with the girls.Opener:
Fist Full o’ Snacks – The song weaving adventures of Vancouver’s Robyn Jacob.
http://www.soundcloud.com/fistfullosnacksAnita Eccleston Jazz Quartet:
Anita Eccleston ~ Vocals & Trumpet
Andrew Smith ~ Electric Guitar
Graham Clark ~ Upright Bass
Graham Ellsworth ~ Drums
with special guest Elizabeth Eccleston ~ Vocals
http://www.anitaeccleston.com/
Thursday Jan 9th : Sarah Kennedy and Co. Joni Mitchell and Charles Mingus Tribute ▲▲
Sarah Kennedy has gathered a full band to do a second performance of her most recent project, a Joni Mitchell and Charles Mingus tribute. The show was inspired by the lyrical and compositional genius of the collaborative album “Mingus,” the melding of poetic folk music and avant-garde jazz at its finest. A rare opportunity to hear this complex music reinterpreted for an intimate setting, the show will cover the entire “Mingus” album as well as other pieces from Joni’s and Mingus’ lifeworks. Come expecting your listening experience to be both heavy and humorous; disturbing and peaceful; ferocious and tender.Sarah Kennedy – vocals
Gavin Youngash – guitar
Eli Davidovici – bass
Ben Henriques – sax
Sam Cartwright – drumsThis is a by donation show! Pay what you can, suggested donation $10.

Fri Jan 10th : 9pm $5 at The door ▲▲
MITIGO Rocks the Kozmik Zoo w The Hairless Bares
+ Virginia Amber’s 31st Birthday (Mitigo’s Vocals + Awesome Human!)
Rock/Hard Rock
Saturday Jan 11th. 2013 ▲▲
♥ Soul HipHop Saturday @ The Zoo ♥ Valentina + LavaChild + DJ Johny Stone ♥
Soul HipHop Saturday with Various Vancouver talents
“The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.” – Godfather of Soul, James Brown
Vancouver’s most talented and beautiful artists are gathering for a night of Soul, HipHop and Old School at The Kozmik Zoo.
Jan 11th Line up: 8pm / $8 cover
Valentina : Soul, latin, pop
Power vocals, R&B/soul, Loopstation, Go.
Originally from Santiago, Chile, with a stint in Squamish, Valentina currently resides in Burnaby, B.C. where she works tirelessly on her vocals that blow the roof off every single venue she plays in the city. A trained musician with a passion for soul, Valentina works her piano, tambourine and loop pedal (in a pair of 5 inch heels no less) to deliver a set of originals that has your heart aching for more and your feet dancing through all her upbeat soul/R&B covers. This fierce female brings vocals that are unbeknownst to any other act out of Vancouver and beyond so be sure to check out one of her shows if you feel the need to catch the next big thing! Currently working on her upcoming EP, Valentina will be everywhere soon so come catch her in her early stages to say you were there when it all began.
LavaChild (Chantel Upshaw)
“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.” ~ Jack Kerouac
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” ~ Jack Kerouac
Johny Stone: Old School HipHop , Soul Funk, House : The man in charge of your grooves, Johny has been spinning in Vancouver for many years, his specialty is infectious beats of Old School, Hip Hop, Soul and anything tasteful in that genre.

Sunday Jan 12th THE SUNDAY SERVICE IMPROV COMEDY GROUP 9pm 7$ at The door ▲▲
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Tuesday January 14th. Live Jazz + 2 for 1 Pasta Night** ▲▲
Live Jazz with TRIODE (8pm By donation)
Amazing local Jazz Players, Daryl Jahnke (Guitar) , Kerry Galloway (Bass) + Joe Poole (Drums)
Wed Jan 15th. ▲▲
Live Jazz by Mackenzie Jones Music Production
Adam Jones, the evil mastermind behind Mackenzie Jones Music Bring various ensembles from his amazing big band to Julia Pinckney Jazz Quartet JPJQ and guest to The Kozmik Zoo every Third Wednesday of The Month.
Thursday Jan 16th Comedy @ The Koz with Kyle Bottom + Ivan Decker ▲▲
8pm 5$
Amazing new Comedy idea in Vancouver, Various great stand up comedian will take ideas from guests (collected right before the show) and do a little improv on it complimented with their prepared sets.
Friday Jan 17th Live Music Artists TBA
Saturday Jan 18th ▲▲
Cat Thompson and Guests Live Premier @ The Kozmik Zoo
8pm 10$ Brought to you by 604Records
Sunday Jan 19th THE SUNDAY SERVICE IMPROV COMEDY GROUP 9pm 7$ at The door ▲▲
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Tuesday Jan 21st ROCKET SCIENCE ▲▲ (Every first and third Tuesday of the month)
Wed Jan 22nd Live Jazz TBA (8pm By donation)
Thurs Jan 23rd Familiar Wild + Harmony Trowbridge
8 pm 8$ at the door ▼▼
Friday Jan 24th MASHED POETICS
Mashed Poetics is a night of spoken word and musical mash up. It’s a quarterly event that takes place at the Kozmik Zoo on West Broadway (mostly).
For each event we choose a music album and get a cover band to learn all the songs. Poets are then assigned a song from whatever album we are doing to create a new piece of work for the show.The performance includes the band playing the songs with the poets reading their poems in response to the songs in between the songs.
Albums in the past include Black Sabbath-Paranoid, No Doubt-Tragic Kingdom, RUSH-Moving Pictures, The White Stripes-Elephant, Barenaked Ladies-Gordon, Prince-Purple Rain, Beastie Boys-Licensed to Ill, Led Zeppelin-Led Zeppelin IV and several others
The Theme This Month will be TV THEMES, Setlist so far:
Happy Days—Brotus McFarlan
Gilligan’s Island—-Kevin Spenst
Spiderman—RC Weslowski
Three’s Company—Emilee Nimetz
The Jeffersons—Lishai Peel
True Blood—Bonnie Quan Symons
Dr Who—Rachel Taylor
Family Guy—Rupert Common
Fresh Prince of Belair—Dylan Jay Williamson
Cheers—Amy Girard
Friends—Megan Hooge
WKRP–Jonina Lynn Kirton
Dukes of Hazzard—Billeh Nickerson
Night Court—Matt Loeb ▼▼

Sat Jan 25th Live Music Funk 8pm/$10 Artists TBA
Sunday Jan 26th THE SUNDAY SERVICE IMPROV COMEDY GROUP 9pm 7$ at The door ▲▲