I previously mentioned the new Keloha music festival coming to Kelowna’s Waterfront Park on the July 6th weekend. Wet Ape productions are bringing a world-class event to the Kelowna waterfront. Stay tuned for Artist lineup and ticket info in a few weeks…
KELOHA will feature 2 stages and showcases a number of art exhibits. The music will feature indie rock, alternative, electro pop, folk, and anything else you want to hear!
Kreater Custom Motorcycles, High Tide Entertainment & 1st Video Band is proud to present Grammy Award winner Paul Rodgers who will be performing in Concert at Kelowna Community Theatre March 15, 2012. VIP Tickets will include an exclusive Concert “SWAG” pack including T-shirts, CDs, Lanyards, pre concert refreshments in KCT green room etc., The VIP tickets will be available at Kreater Custom Motorcycles. Special Guests will be Kelowna recording artists the FLU. Check out their tunes here!
Tickets available at Select Your Tickets box office and online at www.selectyourtickets.com
Doors 6:30 pm
The FLU 7:30 pm
Paul Rodgers 8:30 pm
I’ve been posting news about the upcoming Global Music Fest in Kelowna this Saturday. There will be great acts coming to town like Beyond Sapphire, Rococode and En Karma… Here are our local performers who will be there.
Friday: Jeff Piattelli, Windborn, Dan Oig
Saturday: Leah West, Brent Tyler, Mark Irving
See you there. Also watch Shaw TV this Thursday at 7pm to catch them perform their songs that they wrote for local non-profits.
Buy tickets for this event here!
Royal Canoe is a deadly band armed with falsettos, guitars, effects pedals, drums, basses, tambourines, shakers and a five-keyboard super-weapon. Royal Canoe play lyrically sharp pop songs that move people and make people move.
It all began in 2006, when Matt Peters (The Waking Eyes) teamed up with some Winnipeg friends and musicians (Nathan Blanchard, Jo Snyder, Tom Keenan and others) to write a collection of songs. Many of the songs that emerged revolved around tragic characters, each treated with equal parts humour and tender endearment. “Kasparov” is a love song from the super-computer Deep Blue to chess champion Gary Kasparov, “Dear June” is about a Siamese twin who wants to go it alone and “Me Loving Your Money (Gonna See Us Through This)” explores the complexities of love…kinda.
Royal Canoe was born, and after some more collaboration the aptly titled album, CO-OP Mode was completed. It was never to be played live. Ever.
Fast forward three years to 2009, when Peters finally found time to put together a band. He enlisted the limitless talents of Winnipeg musicians Bucky Driedger and Matt Schellenberg (The Liptonians), Brenden Berg (Tele) and the double-drummer assault of – Derek Allard (Tele) and Michael Jordan (The Liptonians).
Catch Beyond Sapphire opening up for Andrew Allen on Friday night for the Global Music Fest!
Even the adventurous Behind Sapphire couldn’t have imagined the things that would happen to them this year. The group spent the first three months of 2011, on the road, touring the vast Canadian continent in support of their self-titled debut album. Their music video for “Oh My, What a Fine Day,” staring actress Jodelle Ferland, hit semi-viral status on YouTube. The song was featured in hit TV series Degrassi, and the video was eventually picked up by Much Music. In May, Behind Sapphire was selected as one of BC’s Top 20 artists in the Peak Performance Project.
After taking two months off to write a new record, the boys of Behind Sapphire embarked on a Western Canadian summer tour sporting blonde-white hair and overalls. The boys, following the tour, met and sang for the infamous Ellen Degeneres, who loved the music and stated “They’re fantastic. I like ’em.” The year also marked the bands first international tour to China. One of the highlights, of the month long tour, was the bands last show where they showcased for 100 million viewers on national TV.
Fresh from a whirlwind of incredible events, Behind Sapphire is set to release the “Diamonds EP.” The EP is a collection of songs inspired by love, marriage and family. “Diamonds” is a true reflection of the bands live show; it’s full of spontaneous, bouncy rhythms and affectionately soulful melodies. The EP is precursor to the bands sophomore record, which will be released in early 2012.
You probably seen Curtis playing around Kelowna last year at Cabana’s or the Minstrel Cafe…. check out his new video!
Video created by Ebony Price
Concert Photography by Joshua Dool
Ever After Written arranged and performed by Curtis Parry
Stefan Bienz-upright bass
Curtis Parry-vocals, guitars, strings, drums
Produced and engineered by Curtis Parry for stoneface productions
Copyright Curtis Parry, 2010
All Rights Reserved
Come out a check out the Charming Sportsmen at the Blue Gator this Wednesday night!
Local celtic rock band Cod Gone Wild adds its world sound to Satuday night as the openers for Rococode and En Karma.
Cod Gone Wild is a rambunctious modern Celtic band, based out of the Okanagan Valley of beautiful British Columbia. The “cods” have melded veteran musicians from diverse musical backgrounds to create an edgy version of traditional, contemporary and original Celtic, Irish and Newfoundland music. Their unique arrangements, rich harmonies, driving rhythms and up-beat stage presence create a powerful genre of music that is positively infectious. People cannot help but clap, tap, and dance along to the beat. It’s like your whole body is having a party…Suddenly, without warning, you’re flippin’ and floppin’ and skippin’ and jumpin’ like a Cod Gone Wild.
Fri Feb 17
Shreddy Krueger, Scissorkick – Flashbacks
Songwriter Circle – Streaming Cafe
Aaron Gordon – Dakodas Sports Pub
THE CHEEKY MONKEYS – The Minstrel Cafe
The Young’Uns – 97 Street Pub
Studebaker John & the Hawks – The Blue Gator
Zoo Lion – Doc Willoughby’s Downtown Pub
Sat Feb 18
Wentworth Music and K96.3 present Back to the 80’s tribute concert with Darby Mills – Kelowna Community Theatre
Mike Edel – Streaming Cafe
Aaron Gordon – Dakodas Sports Pub
THE CHEEKY MONKEYS – The Minstrel Cafe
Dreamcoat with Little Jungles – Fernando’s Taqueria on Bernard
The Young’Uns – 97 Street Pub
Black Lights and Glow Sticks – Grateful Fed
Chekhov’s Shorts
February 23-25 2012 at 7:30PM
Theatre Smith Gilmour (Ont)
Adapted by Dean Gilmour and Michele Smith
The tales are vintage Chekhov, lovingly decanted and stylishly presented, with humour and pathos riding tandem throughout.” The Toronto Star
An intense experience you won’t soon forget. Montreal Gazette.
Theatre Smith-Gilmour’s Chekhov’s Shorts made its World Première in Toronto, Canada in November 1999 to critical and audience acclaim. Based on the short stories of Anton Chekhov, the uniqueness of this work led them to create the four-play Chekhov Cycle which also includes Chekhov longs…In the Ravine, Dr. Chekhov: Ward 6 and Chekhov’s Heartache. The Chekhov Cycle’s success has resulted in more than 350 performances across Canada and in China to numerous accolades.
Adapted by Dean Gilmour and Michele Smith with the company, this first installment of the Chekhov Cycle has played to sold-out audiences and won three Dora Mavor Moore Awards: Outstanding Actor, Outstanding Director, and Outstanding Production.
Based on five bittersweet short stories, Chekhov’s On the Train provides the framework for this 90-minute one-act work. As the play opens, we see four passengers embark on a train voyage across Russia’s frozen wastelands from Happy-Trach-Tarrach Station to the station known as Run-For-Your-Life. The passengers are a wonderful array of characters and slowly, their stories are revealed, hidden within each other like matrioshkas.
Tickets are $30 adults and $10 students and are available at www.selectyourtickets.com or by calling the RCA 250-717-5304
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