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Friday night, April Fool’s live music around town

FIELDS OF GREEN – Live Video Shoot Show – The House
AMBRE MACLEAN & GABRIELLE PAPILLON – The Minstrel Cafe
Donovan Sweet – Pheasant & Quail Pub
Craig Cardiff – Streaming Cafe
Whiskey Dick – Grateful Fed
STEVE KOZAK and his WestCoast All-Stars – Black Box, Kelowna Community Theatre
The Perfect Trend, Krousis, To Rise as Kings – The Bakery Boardshop & Lounge
Zamboni Brothers – The Blue Gator
Madison Rivers w/ Moments – Doc Willoughby’s Downtown Pub

BC MUSICIANS CLAIM EIGHT JUNO AWARDS

VANCOUVER, BC (March 28, 2011) – This past weekend marked the 40th anniversary of the Juno Awards in Toronto. A celebration of Canada’s top musical talent, thirty-two of these awards were handed out at the Juno Gala on Saturday, while the eight remaining awards including Album of the Year and Best New Artist were presented on Sunday during the CTV broadcast ceremony.

Music BC congratulates all the Juno Award winners of 2011 and would like to extend special acknowledgement to the eight talented BC artists and groups who were honored this weekend.

The BC winners are:

Said The Whale (Hidden Pony/EMI) in New Group of the Year
Matthew Good (Universal) in Rock Album of the Year for “Vancouver”
Fond of Tigers (Drip Audio/Fontana North) in Instrumental Album of the Year for “Continent & Western”
Elaine Lil’Bit Shepherd (D’Maestro Music/Independent) in Reggae Recording of the Year for “Likkle But Mi Tallawah”
Jim Byrnes (Black Hen/Fontana North) in Blues Album of the Year for “Everywhere West”.
Greg Sczebel (Soultone/Fontana North) for Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year for “Love & the Lack Thereof”
HEDLEY (Universal) in Video of the Year for “Perfect”
Young Artists for Haiti (Universal) in Single of the Year for “Wavin’ Flag” (Written by K’naan, recorded in Vancouver at The Warehouse Studio and produced by Bob Ezrin)

To learn more about Music BC and our services please visit www.musicbc.org.

On Holidays

I’ll be back in town march 29th, and updating the blog at that time.  Check out the links on the right-side for the various venues around town with live music!

Live music weekend in Kelowna, starting with Newfoundland’s Great Big Sea!

Fri Mar 11

Great Big Sea – Kelowna Community Theatre
AARON SPOHR –  The Minstrel Cafe
the Flu – Tom Collins Pub – great to see another pub with more live music from local artists!
Gary Gilbertson – Pheasant & Quail Pub
Universal Juveniles – O’Flannigans Pub
Random Act – The Blue Gator
Calum Hughes – Grateful Fed

Sat Mar 12
Aaron Gordon – The Old Bike Shop Cafe
Old Mare – Streaming Cafe
Universal Juveniles – O’Flannigans Pub
Carlos Del Junco – Mary Irwin Theatre – Rotary Centre for the Arts
POPPA DAWG – The Minstrel Cafe
Gary Gilbertson – Pheasant & Quail Pub
Malibu Knights – Doc Willoughby’s Downtown Pub
Random Act – The Blue Gator
Hip Hop Nite – Grateful Fed

Sun Mar 13
Roy Clark – Kelowna Community Theatre

We Are The City Bring “High School” Home To Kelowna

The Kelowna B.C. recording artists have released the video for Happy New Year, the first of six videos – one for every song on their upcoming sophomore release High School – that have been filmed. The remaining five videos will be released in tandem along with Happy New Year after a series of soon to be announced advance screenings take place. In the meantime the band continues the trek east in support of High School.  High School is out on March 22 and after a twenty one date tour to Halifax and back, the band will be back home in Kelowna on April 2nd.


April 3rd • Kelowna Community Theatre w/ Kingdom Cloud, Aidan Knight, Said The Whale

Happy New Year Video: http://vimeo.com/20278331
High School Video Trailer: http://vimeo.com/20731240
Happy New Year MP3 + Media Materials: http://www.killbeatmusic.com/wearethecity/
Band Website: http://www.wearethecity.ca/
Since forming in 2008, Kelowna, BC’s We Are The City has become one of the most exciting and unpredictable forces in the Canadian music scene. The band soon began earning accolades for its atmospheric progressive-pop sound with the release of their debut LP In a Quiet World in 2009. In January 2010, the band earned a whopping $150,000 by winning the PEAK Performance Project, a massive “battle of the bands” contest hosted by Vancouver’s 100.5 The PEAK.

Now, the trio of Cayne McKenzie (vocals/keyboard), Andrew Huculiak (drums) and Blake Enemark (guitar) are ready to take their most ambitious step yet. In March 2011 the band will release six songs entitled High School, the result of an experiment that began as a side project during some down time in the summer of 2010.

High School was originally envisioned as a fictional band, with the members tying shirts over their faces and adopting aliases in order to disguise their identities. Cayne was Lindsey Jone. Andrew was Matthew Curran. Blake was Bobby Reynolds. The project gave the band a chance to revisit their teenage years, laying bare some shameful memories from their past.

We Are The City found themselves venturing into new musical terrain. On the quirky “Happy New Year,” West African-inspired licks give way to garage-y rock outs and fuzzed-out Rhodes piano. “Dark/Warm Air” takes a gentler approach, bringing together delicate guitar arpeggios with baroque pop breakdowns and a dash of tropical Mellotron samples.

High School allowed We Are The City to introduce the use of drum machines and string arrangements into their already very layered sound. They are ecstatic to have worked with Tom Dobrzanski (Said the Whale, Hey Ocean!) who produced the sessions taking place in Vancouver at Vertical and Blue Wave Studios.

With the completion of High School, the band members now have their sights set on a sophomore LP. While it remains to be seen in which direction they will steer their music, one thing is certain: We Are The City will continue their attempt to push musical boundaries and hopefully stumble across something not yet heard in the process.

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The Provincial Archive come back to Kelowna

The Provincial Archive in The Provincial Archives

Edmonton Alberta’s The Provincial Archive To Go Province To Province, Coast To Coast, Playing Provincial Archives, Release Brand New Song Drive And Trailer in Support Of Twenty Seven Date Tour.

Sometimes great ideas are sitting right on your doorstep, or so it would seem for pop-folk darlings, The Provincial Archive. This spring the band will make Canadian tour history with one such great idea: travel coast-to-coast performing in Canada’s Provincial Archives.

“We had the idea last fall, when the Provincial Archives of Alberta asked us to perform in-house. We couldn’t help but laugh at the confusion that would ensue from the band playing a venue by the same name,” says lead archivist Craig Schram. Months of work were dedicated to planning the logistics of a tour that will see 27 performances in 30 days from St. John’s, NL to Victoria, BC. This is no small feat considering the additional complexity required to get the archives on board.

As if this weren’t enough, the band is releasing a new single, “Drive,” to mark the beginning of the tour. This single represents the first major song writing collaboration with the band’s drummer, R. Bramwell Park, and will be available as a free download from the band website. “We’ve always felt that there is a strong connection between the idea of Archiving, and writing songs. So for us, this tour is more than just a name.”

Indeed. But what a name.


Drive MP3, Tour Trailer: http://www.theprovincialarchive.com
More Information/Media Materials: http://www.theprovincialarchive.com/press/

Provincial Archive Tour Dates:

May 07: Edmonton, AB – The Provincial Archives of Alberta
Evening performance in the front room (No Cover)
May 13: Saskatoon, SK –The Saskatchewan Archives Board
Afternoon in-archive (private show.)
Additional evening performance at Louis Pub. Open to the general public. Presented by the Saskatchewan Archives Board. (No Cover)
May 14: Winnipeg, MB –Archives of Manitoba
Evening performance in the Reading Room (No Cover)
May 15: Thunder Bay, ON – Crocks
May 17: Hamilton, ON – The Casbah
May 18: Windsor, ON – The Phog Lounge
May 19: St Catherines, ON -Mansion House
May 20: Toronto, ON – C’est What
May 21: Kingston, ON – The Mansion
May 23: Montreal, QC – Casa Del Popolo
May 24: Quebec City, QC – TBA
May 25: Fredericton, NB – The Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
Evening performance in the Exhibition Hall (No Cover)
May 26: Saint John, NB –The Sunstar Lounge
May 27: Moncton, NB – Plan B Lounge
May 28: Halifax, NS – Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management
Evening Performance (No Cover)
May 30: St. John’s, NL – The Rooms Provincial Archives
Evening theatre performance (No Cover)
May 31: Charlottetown, PEI – Baba’s Lounge
June 02: Ottawa, ON – Zapphod’s
June 03:  Wakefield, QC – Kaffe 1870
June 04:  Sault Ste Marie, ON – Lop Lop’s
June 05: Thunder Bay, ON – Crocks
June 06: Winnipeg, MB – Lo Pub
June 07: Regina, SK – The Saskatchewan Archives Board
Afternoon in-archive (private show.) Additional evening performance at The Exchange. Open to the general public. Presented by the Saskatchewan Archives Board (No Cover)
June 09: Calgary, AB – Broken City
June 10: Kelowna, BC – TBA
June 11: Vancouver, BC – TBA
June 12: Victoria, BC – The British Columbia Archives at the Royal BC Museum
Afternoon outdoor performances (No Cover)

**More dates to be announced soon**

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