Kelowna live music blog presents…. Countdown to the Rockanagan Music Festival (September 28^th and 29^th). Get your tickets now at the five participating venues.

Rockanagan Featured band of the day – Haut chachis (surf)
Friday night @ The Fintry Queen

The Haut Chachis fall into a genre of their own best described as ‘instrumental surf-a-billy-roll with a twist of ska’. Exciting and upbeat, this four piece band has been hell-bent on making waves throughout the interior since late 2004. The Haut Chachis create a unique sound that appeals to a wide audience and have played big stages and small, i.e. pubs/clubs, festivals, parties, city parks, theatres and even on the back of a flat deck truck.

The dandy song “Fell off My Shoes” is the theme music for a hot new comedy show called Off Centre Television thats rolling into its second season this fall. Vancouver Fans- Keep your eyes peeled for the show on a boob tube near you. Unfortunately you cant get it here in the Okanagan but these spanking hilarious episodes can be found on-line http://www.offcentretelevision.blogspot.com
If you rolled the Reverend Horton Heat (Cat’s future ex-husband), The Ventures, Goldfinger and Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet through the dryer, you’d pull out the Haut Chachis and one sock.

The Haut Chachis have a song in the soundtrack of a movie called “Acid Bath” by Warped Reality Pictures out of Los Angeles. This is a sick and twisted indie horror flick that you have to see for yourself.

Kelowna live music blog presents…. Countdown to the Rockanagan Music Festival (September 28^th and 29^th). Get your tickets now at the five participating venues.

Rockanagan Featured band of the day – Terza rima (indie)
Friday night @ The Fintry Queen

Terza Rima has taken the local music scene by storm with their original sound. “We’re not just another girl band trying to be a boy band,” says Shauna, and it shows in their performances. With almost forty shows to date, these four girls have become the talk of the town as they aim to accomplish what no other all-female band out of Kelowna, British Columbia has ever done before. Terza Rima has been recognized by CBC radio, having recieved national airplay, and was also featured as the cover article in the December 2006 issue of eVent Magazine.

Terza Rima has shared the stage with WASSABI COLLECTIVE, SMALL SINS, MAGNETA LANE, MOSES MAYES, SWEETHEART, KINNIE STAR.

Kelowna live music blog presents…. Countdown to the Rockanagan Music Festival (September 28^th and 29^th). Get your tickets now at the five participating venues.

Rockanagan Featured band of the day – Lefty (hard rock)
Friday night @ The Grateful Fed

Lefty was created in mid 2006 and we quickly realized we had a special mix of talents. Within a short period of time and by word of mouth we started seeing support for our music by many different groups of people. In August 2006 we created a “myspace music” profile to share the music we were proud of. Until leftymusic.com is able to obtain music for download please go to http://myspace.com/lefty2252 and listen to some of our original music. Lefty entered the recording studio April 1st, 2007 and is currently recording a 10 track album. Please stay tuned for much better recording qualities on our myspace page and for months worth of unposted photos of the band and photos from the studio.

Fred Eaglesmith
Kelowna Community Theatre, Kelowna, BC
Mon, Oct 15, 2007 08:00 PM

CA $26.25

Internet Onsale Info
Onsale to General Public:
Fri, 09/14/07 10:00 AM PDT

http://www.ticketmaster.ca/event/11003F2D8BFED6AB?brand=&tm_link=tm_home_h4

Kelowna live music blog presents…. Countdown to the Rockanagan Music Festival (September 28^th and 29^th). Get your tickets now at the five participating venues.

Rockanagan Featured band of the day – The Rights (Vancouver – rock)
Friday night @ The Grateful Fed

The Rights story truly begins on a warm summer day in June of 2006. This is where Trav, Lenny and Paul started working on the bands first demo recordings titled Side A. Side A was recorded at Paul’s home studio on an old 8-track reel to reel machine. After finishing the demos Trav had taken them to old friend and fame producer Jason “Juice” Evjen. Asking Juice if he would like to produce and re-record The Rights Side A at his studio JMP in Vancouver, B.C. Agreeing the lads headed off to Van to start work on the new Ep, which they titled Packing Your Suitcase.

The Gigs are filled with loud thundering bass, fuzzy tone guitar and big back beats pushing the air with loads with energy. The Rights love to jam on stage. There is a start and an end of a song but how they get there is the adventure. They always leave the audience wanting more. Sometimes you can hear them play covers like In The Midnight Hour, Summertime Blues, and Purple Haze.

Kelowna live music blog presents…. Countdown to the Rockanagan Music Festival (September 28^th and 29^th). Get your tickets now at the five participating venues.

Rockanagan Featured band of the day – Phoera (hard rock)
Friday night @ The Grateful Fed

All five members of Phoera make their homes in the Okanagan Valley. Spending time cultivating their friendship and writing music, the band makes sure to keep a steady hand on the wheel. When not writing and hanging out, they work within a very extreme spectrum of jobs to keep the boat fueled. With a random show here and there to keep the fans from wandering off, they hope to get things on the ball and start making some waves in this river.

Kelowna live music blog presents…. Countdown to the Rockanagan Music Festival (September 28^th and 29^th). Get your tickets now at the five participating venues.

Rockanagan Featured band of the day – Kim McMechan (folk)
Friday night @ Sturgeon Hall

Kim McMechan spent most of her childhood years pretending to practice her minuets when what she was really doing was writing terrible songs that fell somewhere in style between John Denver and Abba. (You can’t imagine what a terrible combination this was.) She was also obsessed with the Minipops for probably much longer than should have been allowed. Her first attempt at forming a band was in grade 5 when she gathered some of the neighborhood girls together to teach them 3-part harmony to “We’re the Kids of America” even though they were all Canadians.

Things have improved a great deal since then. Kim received some notable success a few years back when 12 of her songs were included in a series of 5 compilation albums through Vineyard Music Group. The records went on to collectively sell over 75,000 copies worldwide, and garnered Kim radio play on stations across North America & Australia and fan mail from around the world.

She writes, she’s been told, “beautifully wrought tunes”, often described by critics as “haunting” and “open-hearted”, which have gone on to receive high praise. Her voice too, has wowed audiences, teetering somewhere between gritty and lonesome, & full of folk-like purity. In 1999, a reviewer from Toronto hailed Kim and her songwriting as “Canada’s best-kept secret.”

Kelowna live music blog presents…. Countdown to the Rockanagan Music Festival (September 28^th and 29^th). Get your tickets now at the five participating venues.

Featured band of the day – Crystal Leigh (singer-songwriter)
Friday night @ Sturgeon Hall

Chrystal Leigh is seductive blues based rock and roll music all composed through voice and piano. 
Chrystal is an original singer/songwriter who combines a sultry lyrical attack of bluesy soul with
a distinctive '70 musical approach. This music is embodied with emotion sung to
break the conventional ways of life and to possess people with the dyer need to
express themselves.

Chad VanGaalen is very prolific. Skelliconnection was culled from hundreds of songs Chad has recorded over the last year or so, while holed up in his bare bones basement home studio. Using handmade instruments alongside those available to mere mortals, he’s created an even more diverse assemblage of music than for his last album and debut, Infiniheart. Chad resides in Calgary, Alberta, which is in Canada. He’s an amazingly talented illustrator and animator. There’s a chance you might have seen the videos he made for his own “Clinically Dead” and Love as Laughter’s “Dirty Lives.” They were featured on MTV2’s Subterranean video show, which Chad also hosted. He’s played with Built to Spill, Wolf Parade, The Pixies, and Stars, to name a few. Mostly, Chad likes to stay home and make songs and drawings. Chad’s new record, on the other hand, resides somewhere a little more difficult to pin down. It’s a restless, living thing, roaming between simple yet beautiful ballads, aggressively dissonant post-punk, and jazz-inflected synth-pop explorations, at times whimsical, and at others heartrending.

Kelowna live music blog presents…. Countdown to the Rockanagan Music Festival (September 28^th and 29^th). Get your tickets now at the five participating venues.

Rockanagan – Featured band of the day – Closing iris (rock)
Friday night @ Sturgeon Hall

Many struggle to be free of the anxious thoughts that haunt us. Most of us don’t understand why we feel like this. Some choose religion.. or medicate with drugs.. or maybe sex? adrenaline, shopping, work, escape, ambition, family, adventure..

Have you tried it all? Have you found a way out?

First album coming soon:

‘Another Reason (To Lie to Yourself)’