with Sights & Sounds & Passenger Action
$12 advance, $15 door (+$1.50 tx & sc) Buy your tickets for this show here
Doors at 7pm, show at 9pm, come early for dinner!

Though the band’s fourth full-length offering ‘The World I Want To Leave Behind’ features a number of “firsts,” Moneen vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter Kenny Bridges assures us that this isn’t a new band: “We weren’t trying to reinvent ourselves as much as we were trying out some things that we would have been scared of on previous records.” Sights & Sounds is vocalist/guitarist Andrew Neufeld, drummer Joel Neufeld, bassist Matt Howes, and guitarist Adrian Mottram. Passenger Action came together in September 2006. A natural chemistry fueled the writing of their Debut EP ‘Acoustic Blueprints’, which was independently released in the summer of 2007.

Dicnar will be playing at the Grateful Fed, Friday November 20th opening for Love Among the Ruins.  You can catch them again on Friday, November 27th playing with Rhymes with Regina and UNCP. See you there!

Dicnar will be playing at the Grateful Fed, Friday November 20th opening for Love Among the Ruins.  You can catch them again on Friday, November 27th playing with Rhymes with Regina and UNCP. See you there!

he Kelowna Folk Club presents the McDades Saturday, November 21 at Okanagan Mission Community Hall, 4409 Lakeshore Road, Kelowna. Doors open at 7 PM; show time 8 PM. Opening act: Chloe, Kyle & Co. Tickets $25; $15 for students/seniors. Tickets available in advance at Beadiful Arts, Rosie’s Grape Stop, Tickle Trunk and Bering Music (downtown and West Kelowna).

Come see why Folk Alley says, “Is this Celtic or Middle Eastern? A family band with years of experience, you cannot pigeonhole them. Their instrumentals start with an Irish flair, but feature jazz like solos and arrangements. The group has male and female lead singers, good song selection, and they don’t copy what they listen to.” The McDades are the 2007 Juno Award winners for Best Roots/Traditional Album Group, the 2007 Independent Music Award for Best World Album-Traditional, and the 2006 Canadian Folk Music Awards for Best World Group and Best Instrumental Group.

As for Chloe, Kyle & Co., their music is all about fun and kids inspiring kids. This award-winning sister/brother act has been fiddling since the ages of three and five in a mix of Celtic to Quebecois, blues to boogie, Metis to hoedown, and Klezmer to Classical.

For more information visit www.kelownafolkclub.ca.

Thought I’d pass these along….

Blue Rodeo in Kamloops. Saturday, January 9th

Colin James at the Kelowna Community Theatre, Friday January 15th

Guns n Roses – Jan 17 – Edmonton, AB – Rexall Place

The Pink Floyd Experience, Friday January 15th in Penticton, South Okanagan Events Centre
http://www.soec.ca/events/calendar_events.html

Motley Crue, GM Place Vancouver, January 24th
https://tickets.motley.com/

Hawksley Workman at the Kelowna Community Theatre, Sunday, March 7th
http://www.ticketmaster.ca/event/1100436C7D7564CA?brand=&tm_link=tm_homeA_h2

Hedley, Supporting acts include Faber Drive, Stereos and Fefe Dobson in Penticton, March 22nd at South Okanagan Events Centre

Check them out, they put on a great show at the Kelowna Club a few months back.  Kelowna’s Malibu Nights opens up.

Check them out, they put on a great show at the Kelowna Club a few months back.  Kelowna’s Malibu Nights opens up.

SAID THE WHALE – ISLANDS DISAPPEAR
It wasn’t too long ago that Said The Whale treated some lucky media, industry, and friends to a private boat cruise on a 68-foot antique yacht to preview their album Islands Disappear.  They made the trip around English Bay with Camilo (the magician in which the first single is named after), and while this party was a small one, this release has been anything but. 

Following the October 13th release Islands Disappear quickly climbed the itunes charts hitting #1 on the alternative chart and #5 on the album chart all in the span of two days.  Said The Whale were nominated for a Verge Artist of the Year award for the second year in a row, landed on the cover of The Georgia Straight, were invited to play the Edge 102.1 studios, and received a plug from George Stroumboulopoulos himself on The Hour.  Album copies are quickly selling off the shelves in record stores across the country, and the media is all over them.

“There isn’t a bad song in this bunch. Said The Whale have gone and made a career-defining album much sooner, I’d say, than anyone expected them to.” – CHARTattack

“Camilo (The Magician) is probably the jam of the year when it comes to Canadian indie rock” – HeroHill

On top of all of this , the video for the ‘Camilo (The Magician) was recently released and basically it’s so cute it hurts.  Directed by Adam Christl and produced by 3:AM Design, for your viewing pleasure you can check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar0bmGshhTs

For music + more info: www.saidthewhale.com  
More good stuff here: www.myspace.com/saidthewhale 

Here are the results of a poll from dozens of music writers in Canada.  It is a list of 33 bands to watch in Canada and half of them have played at the Habitat!  Very cool.  Only 4 bands in the Top 10 have not played the Habitat before.

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