Category Archives: Kelowna Community Theatre

Kelowna Live music this weekend – lots to choose from!

Another busy weekend of live music at various venues around town.  See you out at the Global Music Fest, at the newly renovated Laural Packinghouse.

Fri Feb 25

ART IS {HOPE} Showcase w/Andrew Smith | Norm Strauss | Kim McMechan | Graham Ord – Emmanuel Church – 2600 Hebert Rd. West Kelowna
BITTERGIRL – Mary Irwin Theatre – Rotary Centre for the Arts
JEFF PIATTELLI – The Minstrel Cafe
Blue City – Pheasant & Quail Pub
Music BC presents: KELOWNACOUSTIC – Habitat
Zamboni Brothers – The Blue Gator
Colt 45 –O’Flannigans Pub
Jamshak / Manic Flow / Sugar Coated Killers – Flashbacks
Gobble Gobble, Little Jungles & The Fails – 2303 Abbott St.
Malibu Knights –  Grateful Fed

Sat Feb 26

Sarah Calvert – The Old Bike Shop Cafe
Mike Edel with Mark Irving – Streaming Cafe
Shane Koyczan, Malibu Knights, Ryan Donn and Cameron Welch – Global Music Fest, Laural
Packinghouse
BITTERGIRL – Mary Irwin Theatre – Rotary Centre for the Arts
Blue City – Pheasant & Quail Pub
Zamboni Brothers – The Blue Gator
Colt 45 –O’Flannigans Pub
Whiskey Dick and Porch Crawler –  Grateful Fed

We Are The City and Aidan Knight bring their Reckless Bravery Tour back to Kelowna!

Wow, Said the Whale and Kingdom Cloud were added to this already impressive lineup!  With all the National attention these bands have been getting, this will be a very special evening in Kelowna!

THE LINE-UP:
We Are The City
Said The Whale
Aidan Knight
Kingdom Cloud

THE DETAILS:
Sunday, April 3rd
Kelowna Community Theatre
Tickets $15 in advance, $18 at the door

Tickets are available as of Friday Feb 25th at Tweaked and Yummy Vintage Apparel (1292 Ellis St, Kelowna) and online sales will be available as of Monday Feb 28th

Kelowna Live music – Saturday, Feb. 19th

If you are not home listening to the new Radiohead album that came out today, go out and support these great local live music venues

Mike Jervis – Cabana Grille
The Floyd Vedan Band – O’Flanigans
Almost a Few – The Old Bike Shop Cafe
Matthew Joel Band & Two Bicycles – Streaming Cafe
We weren’t born to follow – A tribute to Bon Jovi – Kelowna Community Theatre
C. R. AVERY – The Minstrel Cafe
Scott Theilman –  Pheasant & Quail Pub
Downhome Dave & the Dynamite – The Blue Gator
Rumpus Room Revisted – Grateful Fed
DJ Nu-Mark (Of Jurassic 5) – Sapphire Nightclub, Gotcha Nightclub

Newfoundland bands heading West, and playing Kelowna!

In recent months, more Newfoundland bands have been heading out west on National tours, and some of them have been stopping in Kelowna!  Hey Rosetta have been here a few times now (most recently in Sept. 2010).  Matthew Hornell and The Diamond Minds played the Minstrel Cafe in November, and coming up on March 3rd, The Mountains and the Trees will be opening for Treelines on their western Canadaian Tour.  The Mountains & The Trees are/is Jon Janes. He plays guitar, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, harmonica, bells, drums, and whistles, hums, and sings. He also played throughtout Europe with Dan Mangan last year!  Come check out the show!

Newfoundland’s Damhnait Doyle (formerly of Shaye) has a new band – The Heartbroken, and will be playing the Minstrel Cafe on Feb. 21st.

If a 10-piece Ska band is more your thing, check out the Idlers.  This band from St. John’s played BC last June, and will be in Golden on March 11th.

Idlers are full tilt-energy. Part dance, part world music and truly indie, Idlers have defined their presence on stage and in the studio through overflowing energy and social-consciousness. Idlers show is a genre-bending musical carnival, moving from town to town, bringing joy to crowds’ feet.

So if you’re not going to Golden to see the Idlers on Mach 11th, then that same night you can catch Great Big Sea at the Kelowna Community Theatre.  There last show in Kelowna was at Prospera Place in 2002, and that was nearly a sell-out.  They are doing smaller theatre venues on this tour, after playing the SOEC in Penticton last time around.

Kelowna Live music – A dozen shows to choose from this Friday, Feb. 11th

Danielle Stradecke – Yellow House
Midnite Access – Vintner’s Poolside Grill at the Coast Capri Hotel!
Nixie CD release with Little Jungles – Black Box, behind Kelowna Community Theatre
Johnny G – Pheasant & Quail Pub
Martin Kerr – The Minstrel Cafe
Sherman Doucette –  The Blue Gator
DJ Altair & DJ Topher Bear – Habitat
Bucknife, EarlyMorningExit, Gypsyfist, WOMK. – Flashbacks
The Cheeky Monkeys – O’Flannigans Pub
Live on Brighton – Doc Willoughby’s Downtown Pub
Paperboy – Grateful Fed

 

Okanagan Artists Get National Exposure!

Wow, what a week!  Greg Sczebel’s album “Love and the Lack Thereof” is up for best Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year at the Juno Awards.  Sczebel won that same category in 2005 with his debut album “Here to Stay”, and he got 5th spot int eh Peak Performance Project and was showcased and BreakOut West in Kelowna in Ocotber!  Congrats, Greg!

Mark April 3rd on your calendar!  We are the City will be back in town at the Kelowna Community Theatre w/ Aidan Knight

We Are The City Announce The March 22nd Release Of High School

The Kelowna B.C. recording artists get set to put out their sophomore release High School on the newly minted Vancouver based label Adventure Boys Club (Aidan Knight) run by Said The Whale’s Tyler Bancroft, and prepare to hit the road in support of it.

Happy New Year MP3 + Media Materials: http://www.killbeatmusic.com/wearethecity/
Band Website: http://www.wearethecity.ca/
Label Website: http://www.adventureboysclub.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.

We Are The City High School Tour Dates

Feb 18th • Victoria, BC • Fairfield United w/ Aidan Knight, Yes Nice, Mike Edel
Feb 19th • Port Alberni, BC • The Academy w/ Aidan Knight, Yes Nice, Kingdom Cloud
Feb 20th • Duncan, BC • The Duncan Garage Showroom w/ Aidan Knight, Yes Nice
Feb 25th • Brandon, MB • North Hill Inn
Feb 28th • Thunder Bay, ON • Crock’s w/ Yukon Blonde
March 3rd • Kingston, ON • Clark Hall Pub w/ The Liptonians
March 4th • Windsor, ON • The Phog Lounge
March 8th • Montreal, QC • Casa del Popolo
March 9th • Quebec, QC • L’Agitee
March 12th •Toronto, ON • The Garrison – CMW Showcase – 10PM
March 15th • Halifax, NS • Paragon Gallery Pub w/ Aidan Knight
March 18th • Charlottetown, PEI • Baba’s w/ Aidan Knight
March 23rd • Winnipeg, MB • The Park Theatre w/ Aidan Knight, The Liptonians
March 24th • Regina, SK • O’Hanlon’s w/ Aidan Knight
March 25th • Edmonton, AB • BRIXX w/ Aidan Knight
March 26th • Calgary, AB • The Marquee Room w/ Aidan Knight
April 2nd • Vancouver, BC • The Red Room – West Coast Pop w/ Aidan Knight
April 3rd • Kelowna, BC • Kelowna Community Theatre w/ Aidan Knight, guests TBC
**More dates to be announced soon**

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My Top 10 concerts for 2010

So I posted my list of top Kelowna concerts for 2010, and a few of them made it to this list below as well!

10. Grapes of Wrath – Summerhill Winery, Kelowna, BC, July 28, 20104.
9. Sherman Downey – Olympics @ Canada House, Vancouver, BC, February 20th, 2010
8. Plants & Animals / Said the Whale / Kingdom Cloud – The Habitat, Kelowna, BC, May 2nd, 2010
7. Ghostland Observatory – Showbox SoDo, Seattle, WA., Nov. 12th, 2010

6. Dan Mangan / Aidian Knight – The Habitat, Kelowna, BC, February 7th, 2010
5. Dan Mangan / Jesse Sykes – The Vogue Theatre, Vancouver, BC, May 8th, 2010

4. Wilco / Bahamas – National Arts Centre, Ottawa, On, March 1st, 2010

3. Break Out West Festival with Said the Whale, Grapes of Wrath, Library Voices, Ryan Donn, Royal Canoe, Corb Lund, etc… various Venues, Kelowna, BC, Oct. 21-23rd, 2010
2. Roger Waters – Rogers Arena, Vancouver, BC, Dec. 10, 2010

1. Lollapalooza – Lady Gaga, Soundgarden, the Strokes, Metric, Stars, Green Day, MGMT, the Black Keys, Cypress Hill, Wolfmother @ Grant Park, Chicago, August 6-8th, 2010

NYE in Kelowna

Ring in the New Year….

Red Eye Empire New Years Eve Party! at Doc Willoughby’s Downtown Pub, Facebook Event
Radio Live at O’Flannigans  – info
Greg Szcebel at Cush – info
Robert Fine – Cove Lakeside Resort – info
Sherman Doucette at the Blue Gator
New Years Eve in Las Vegas at Kelowna Community Theatre – info
The Blue Healers and the comedy of Rob Balsdon & Garret Clark at Kelowna Banquet and Conference Centre – info
Sista B and the Boyz – New Year’s Eve Party & Celebration at Habitat
Sideshow Attraction at Aspen Grove Golf Club, Lake Country – info
Footwerk / WOOD n SOO (Van BC) / DEE BASS / JGIRL / ARTHUR SHWIMMER / VISUALS at Oasis Niteclub – Facebook Event
New Years 2010 Mardi Gras at Lake Okanagan Resort – info
New Years Eve Party – Free at Flashback’s – info
COMPRESSION, D:CUE and DAVIN ST.MARTIN – NEW YEARS REVOLUTION at GOTCHA NITE CLUB
NYE at Grateful Fed
New Years Eve Burlesque party – Level Nite Club – ticket info
DJ Funky Phil at Cabanda Bar and Grill – info
Saltwater Cowboy at Vintners Poolside
Cowboy Bob at Minstrel Cafe – info

Lunch at Allen’s – Tonight! Kelowna Community Theatre

LunchatAllens

Date: November 9 (8:00 PM)
Price: $ 38.00
Tickets: SelectYourTickets
250 762-5050
Website: lunchatallens.com

There’s nothing like four gifted friends getting together to make music for all the right reasons and when it comes to Lunch At Allen’s the dishes are garnished with humorous banter and sympathetic interplay. Keeping audiences entranced with perfectly paced and artistically satisfying shows is why Murray McLauchlan, Cindy Church, Marc Jordan and Ian Thomas are returning to The Arden for a third visit.

Hearing Jordan roll out Rhythm of My Heart which he wrote for Rod Stewart, Thomas lean into Hold On which was snapped up by Santana, McLauchlan perform his classic Child’s Song and Ms. Church slide into a Hoagy Carmichael classic would be worth the price of admission alone, but it’s a big buffet of prime selections that fill you up whenever you make time for Lunch At Allen’s.