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April 15-16th- So much going on this weekend, lots to choose from!

So much going on this weekend, lots to choose from!

Fri Apr 15

Scott Theillman – Pheasant & Quail Pub
LESLIE ALEXANDER & JENNY ALLEN – The Minstrel Cafe
My Pet Lion with The Flu – Grateful Fed
The Blue Healers – Tom Collins Pub
Random Act – The Blue Gator
Colt 45 – O’Flannigans Pub
FOOTWERK – OASIS & Sapphire Nightclub

Sat Apr 16

Leah West and Sasha Lewis  – The Old Bike Shop Cafe
Ambre McLean and Gabrielle Pappilon – Streaming Cafe
AwesomeOkanagan.com Launch Party – Laurel Packinghouse
THE BLUE CITY TRIO – The Minstrel Cafe
Random Act – The Blue Gator
Thunder and Lightening – Grateful Fed
Brand New Waves – Doc Willoughby’s Downtown Pub
Colt 45 – O’Flannigans Pub

BREAKOUT WEST SUBMISSIONS CLOSE FRIDAY

Artists have one week left to submit their 2011 BreakOut West & WCMA application. The submission deadline is APRIL 15, 2011 at 11pm C.S.T. Visit www.breakoutwest.ca for submission guidelines, award category requirements and all submission information.

Travel funding will also be available along with traditional showcase support sources (FACTOR,  Music Industry Association, etc.) Those performers chosen to attend BreakOut West 2011 or perform on the Awards Show will be contacted regarding funding opportunities.

BreakOut West 2011 runs from October 20 – 23 in Whitehorse, Yukon

Canadian Independent Music Showcase at the Habitat

presented by Harte Music Productions and New Horizon Talent Productions
Tickets: $15 advance/$20 door – Buy your tickets for this event here!
Advance tickets also available from showcase artists
Doors at 6:30pm, show at 7:30pm

Featuring the best and the brightest of up and coming Vancouver and Kelowna talent, Harte Music Productions and New Horizon Talent Productions are proud to present the Canadian Independent Music Showcase featuring a stellar lineup including:

  • Cynthia Leigh Ann (Kelowna)
  • Roger Schmidt (Vancouver)
  • Dianne Wirtz (Kelowna)
  • Calum Hughes (Kelowna)
  • Denise Dodd (Vancouver)
  • Rachel Pavlakovic (Kelowna)
  • Daryle Ackerman (Kelowna)
  • Pauline Kyllonen (Kelowna)
  • Steven Koenig (Vancouver)
  • Christina Alconcel (Vancouver)
  • Auret Esselen (Vancouver)
  • KerryLee Manuel (Vancouver)

Harte Music Productions Inc is an all-inclusive music company that provides world class music production of many genres. We are breaking new ground in the areas of artist development and artist management. The co-founders, Don Harte and Mark Rosner, have over 40 years experience in the music industry combined.Co-owner Martin Acosta, has brought valuable contacts and experience to the company as well.We support our artists every step of way, after all, having a great CD is only useful if it can be heard. Having a great image is only useful if it can be marketed.

New Horizon was founded in 2005, basing itself on the idea to provide a connection between the Music Industry and the emerging artists in B.C. The number of talented young people in the Okanagan, B.C. and for that matter all over Canada is astounding, to put it bluntly, “Canada’s Got Talent” and waiting out there somewhere is another Shania Twain, Brian Adams or Jonnie Reed, just hoping for the chance to to be discovered. Minors have the toughest time of any hopeful artist or musician finding venues to showcase themselves, or to get themselves noticed, most clubs, pubs, and other such venues even some restaurants don’t want to baby sit these kids between their sets. The venues open to them are few and far between and most of these young artist just do not know how to get started in the music/arts business.

Little Jungles with Duzhenknew – April 11th at the Gator

W/ DUZHEKNEW (From Halifax, NS)
One of the most interesting minimal bands out there. 3 Piece band making chilled out weirdo art rock. SURREAL DEAL.
listen:
www.myspace.com/duzheknew
http://www.facebook.com/pages/DUZHEKNEW/187524228385

COUSINS (Also from Halifax, NS)

LULLABY GRUNGE. 2 Piece full of melodies and rhythms that get into yr liver and kick your kidneys. It’ll make you cry and pump you up about it. They write songs about losing friends to the big cities all across our country.
listen here:
http://cousinscousins.bandcamp.com/album/out-on-town
http://www.myspace.com/cousinscousins
http://www.facebook.com/pages/cousins/98150366558

…. These bands will be on the last half of their north american tour, fresh out of SXSW

The Dyeing Merchants at the Blue Gator

Facebook Event

Doors 8pm, show at 9:30pm
$7

THE DYEING MERCHANTS
www.thedyeingmerchants.com
Reverb drenched noise/pop rockers bring some West Coast cheer to a former stomping ground.

MOURNING COUP
www.myspace.com/mourningcoup
Performance artist turned solo artist, MC’s music is captivating using loops, electronic beats and calming synths. Using trippy psychedelic lighting, Chandra mimics haunting sounds from the natural world.

LITTLE JUNGLES
http://littlejungles.bandcamp.com/
Hometown hero who is always a pleasure to see. Described as “bitter truth wrapped in shiny pop-gaze wrappers like so much hard, hard candy” by Weird Canada, while Coke Machine Glow gushes that “electro and shoegaze bump up against one another like untethered boats, while carefully constructed melodic lines suck the listener along with the undertow”.
Sounds good, right? It is.

Arts and Culture Summit this weekend & a great weekend for local live music

Along with the Arts and Culture Summit this weekend, what a great weekend for local live music, from many of the top Kelowna live music venues!

Fri Apr 8

34th BC Interior Jazz Festival –  Kelowna Community Theatre
Poppa Dawg Trio – The Minstrel Cafe
SUBSTENANCE presents PROPA TINGZ + DZ – Flashbacks
Hot Tomales – Pheasant & Quail Pub
Cheeky Monkeys – O’Flanigans Pub
Blue City – Vintner’s Poolside Grill
The Vaqueros – The Blue Gator
Robbie Aylesworth – Grateful Fed
The Spring Fling TRAFFIC LIGHT PARTY ft E-Swift – Sapphire, Gotcha Nightclub
The Unknown Culprits – Doc Willoughby’s
Dual CD release and Fundraiser. Windborn & Thomas Kjorven – The House

Sat Apr 9
PECHA KUCHA Night Kelowna – Habitat
Windborn – The Old Bike Shop Cafe
Erica Mah – Streaming Cafe
The Vaqueros – The Blue Gator
34th BC Interior Jazz Festival –  Kelowna Community Theatre
Suzie Vinnick~ Sing the Blues With Suz – – Mary Irwin Theatre – Rotary Centre for the Arts
Royal Wood – The Minstrel Cafe
Hot Tomales – Pheasant & Quail Pub
Cheeky Monkeys – O’Flanigans Pub

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Calum Hughes @ Grateful Fed tonight

Calum Hughes is back at the Grateful Fed tonight, and last time he put off an amazing show!  Check him out.

Calum, growing up in Northern BC, learned to play the Scottish Fiddle at age six. This carried him into his teens when he started writing tunes on his guitar and Irish Flute. Musical influence showed through in the electric guitars and solid base riffs.

Calum’s penmanship showed through in his freshman album ( First Born ) and sophmore album ( Next of Kin).

Flash forward a few years and Calum found himself winning Western Canada Songwriting Competition for a “Single Soldier”. That album, Calum’s third,  (Boneshaker) won album of the year in the BCIMA’s.

In 2010, Calum won the “Band on the Run” competition for ” Henry has LOST HIS TEETH!” This tune hit the radio stations within the Okanagan. This would be album number four of the songwriters track record.

He has recorded three albums with the band Kinship and one solo album called “And that’s OK with Me”. Calum has been invited to perform all over North America at such festivals as NXNE, NXNW, SXSW, COCA.

Las Vegas loves Calum. He continues to perform and leaves every audience thirsting for more of his catchy tunes.

2011 Arts & Culture Summit

April 8-9, 2011

Kelowna Art Gallery

Join us for the 2011 Arts & Culture Summit in Kelowna.  The two-day summit is open to all artists and arts & culture organizations in the Okanagan.

Summit highlights

  • workshops, presentations, brainstorming sessions, keynote addresses and fun events
  • local, national and international presenters that bring a wealth of experience in their respective fields
  • 2 streams: one for Creators and one for Organizations
  • fun, interactive sessions and networking for all delegates
  • affordable and flexible registration options with a bonus for our first 100 full registrations

How to register

Registration form now available.  Fill out the registration form and fax or email completed form to contact listed on the form.  Click here for the Summit schedule. The Summit Brochure includes descriptions of each of the sessions.

The 2011 Arts & Culture Summit is pleased to present the first PechaKucha NightKelowna.
PechaKucha Night Kelowna Call for Presenters

Who’s coming

Individual creatives, organizations which are directly or indirectly involved in the arts, culture and heritage sectors, businesses and other potential allies, elected representatives, and others who care about the contribution that culture makes to our quality of life.
If you are coming from out of town, check out handy parking tips here.

Why are we doing it

Our Cultural Plan identifies a need to bring the cultural community together on a regular basis for learning, exchange and…let’s be honest…a chance to step away from the daily grind, be inspired, and have some fun as well as share useful tools and information to inspire a refreshed perspective.  This will be the pilot for what we hope will be an annual gathering.

Presenters

Paul Born, Tamarack, An Institute for Community Engagement
Rebecca Martinez & John Lenssen, Sojourn Theatre
Dawn Wilkinson, Kelowna Community Resources
Martha Rans, Artists Legal Outreach
Chris Tyrell, Artist Survival Skills
Jeremy Murphy, Sustainability Solutions & Co-founder of The HiVE Vancouver
Larry Widmer, CFDC of Central Okanagan
Leanne Hammond Komori, Central Okanagan Foundation
Keirsten Provost & Derek Hinchliffe

Contact

For more information on the 2011 Arts & Culture Summit, contact

Stephanie Moore
Cultural Services Branch
250 469-8474
smoore@kelowna.ca