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
with Paperboy
$15 (+ $2.50 tx & sc) – Buy your tickets for this show here!
$18 at the door
Doors at 8pm, Show at 9pm
feat. DJ Altair & DJ Topher Bear
Doors at 8pm
Tickets: $10-$20 (sliding scale) available at door only
All Ages (but make sure to bring 2 pieces of ID if you’re of age!)
Prizes for best mask!
w/ TBA
$15 advance – Buy tickets for this event here!
$20 door
Doors at 8pm, show at 9pm
Another show announcement tomorrow…..
The Rural Alberta Advantage play indie-rock folk songs about hometowns and heartbreak, born out of images from growing up in Central and Northern Alberta. They sing about summers in the Rockies and winters on the farm, ice breakups in the spring time and the oil boom’s charm, the mine workers on compressed, the equally depressed, the city’s slow growth and the country’s wild rose, but mostly the songs just try to embrace the advantage of growing up in Alberta.
At Habitat
$15 advance
$20 door
Doors at 8pm, show at 9pm
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
Not bad for a cold Friday night in December. Over a dozen live shows to choose from!
DJ Nol – Cabana Bar and Grille
Live Music Fridays @ The House – The House
Wingfield On Ice – Mary Irwin Theatre – Rotary Centre for the Arts
Donovan Sweet – Pheasant & Quail Pub
Cush Presents “Dj Stickybuds” – Cush Supper Club
Half a Quorum – Vintner’s Poolside Grill
Rann Berry and The Random Act – The Blue Gator
Malibu Knights – Doc Willoughby’s Downtown Pub
Liquor Snatch, Cinged, Hippiecritz, and Grymm Hymn and the horrors – The Bakery
Cheeky Monkeys – The Minstrel Cafe
Tonite We Burn the Sky Red – Grateful Fed
Young Sparrows, Pull Incase of Fire, Womk!! – Flashbacks
Floyd Vedan band – O’Flannigans Pub
Dirty Radio Live – Gotcha Nightclub
I actually missed the last two Bahamas shows he played in Kelowna this year, but I caught him in Ottawa opening for Wilco and he was fantastic. Don’t miss this show!
Habitat is excited to announce the return of Bahamas to Kelowna on Wednesday, Dec. 8.
This will be Bahamas’ third date in Kelowna since his first at Habitat as part of the highly acclaimed Bonfire Ball tour with Jason Collett and Zeus as well as his second appearance opening for Sarah Harmer at the Kelowna Community Theatre in September.
Joining Bahamas this time around will be Toronto folk rocker Doug Paisley.
Afie Jurvanen, who performs as Bahamas, recorded his debut, Pink Strat (Nevado Records), in a cabin in rural Ontario in the winter of 2008, with his roommate at the time, Robbie Lackritz (Jamie Lidell, Feist). Many of the songs were saved up over a period of five years of touring as part of Jason Collett’s band, and then Feist’s band.
Similar to an old John Hammond or J.J. Cale recording, the production is straight-forward, simple and full of character—highlighting the storytelling and quaintness of the performances.
Though the arrangements are sparse, Jurvanen plays bass, drums, piano, various percussion, organ, slide, acoustic and nylon string guitars and his friends from Zeus, The Great Lake Swimmers, and Feist also join him on a few of the tracks.
Since the release of Pink Strat in the summer of 2009, Bahamas has performed with Elvis Costello, Sam Roberts, the Weakerthans, the Constantines, Amy Millan and Wilco.
Bahamas also received his first Juno nomination in 2010 for Roots Album of the Year.
Bahamas is currently finishing production on a second album and is embarking on their first Cross-Canada headlining tour.
Doug Paisley may come from Toronto but it would be no surprise if I found that he is originally from the Southern States.
His latest album, Constant Companion, is made up of simple acoustic and piano songs accompanied by Doug’s voice that blurs the line between country and folk.
Leslie Feist also makes an appearance on the album on the break-up ballad Don’t Make Me Wait. The album received four stars from Rolling Stone and was deemed one of the best singer/songwriter albums of 2010.
If you haven’t yet had the chance to see Bahamas live, then I suggest you won’t want to miss out on this. Afie is a talented musician who really connects with his audience and with his sly sense of humor he also tends to attract the attention of young ladies (so boys, don’t let your girlfriends go to this one alone).
Bahamas and Doug Paisley are the perfect pairing for a wintry night. Paisley will sympathize with your current dismal state of seasonal despair just to be followed by Bahamas whose lazy Sunday music will make you feel like a warm summer breeze is swaying your hammock back and forth.
Tickets for Bahamas at Habitat are $10 advance and $15 at the door. Advance tickets are available at Leo’s Video, Tweaked and Yummy Vintage Apparel or on the Habitat eStore (estore.thehabitat.ca). Doors are open at 8 p.m. with the show starting at 9 p.m. For more information visit www.thehabitat.ca.
Pyper Geddes is the assistant manager at Habitat in downtown Kelowna.
I’m hitting the road to go see some concerts this weekend: Dan Mangan in Vancouver Thursday, Ghostland Observatory Friday in Seattle, and back to Vancouver for Wintersleep & Ra Ra Riot at the Commodore Ballroom. Hey, lots of great shows happening in Kelowna.
Friday
John Lee Saunders – Vintner’s Poolside Grill
THE BALD WYNN BROTHERS – The Minstrel Cafe
Leah West – Creekside Pub and Grill
DOWN WITH WEBSTER – Gotcha Nightclub
Jessica Myroon CD Release Party – Habitat
Ross Neilsen – The Blue Gator
Cheering for the Bad Guy w/ HippieCritz, Dicnar – Brooklyn Lounge
Live on Brighton CD RELEASE PARTY– with guests – Flashbacks
Floyd Vedan band – O’Flannigans Pub
Poor Little Rich Girl with sp/guests Paperboy – The Grateful Fed
Saturday
Coby Grant & Zachary Lucky – Streaming Cafe
The Rowdymen – The Minstrel Cafe
One Way State – The Grateful Fed
Floyd Vedan band – O’Flannigans Pub
Ritmo Caliente – The Old Bike Shop Cafe
The Sleddogs, The Cruzeros, Ari Neufeld, Deb Stone, Corey Doak and Olga Osipova – Kelowna Community Theatre
Ross Neilsen – The Blue Gator
Ari Neufeld – Live music Saturday – Cabana Bar and Grille
The first volume of the K96.3 Compilation CD is here! Check out these great interior artists!
All artists who applied are invited to attend the Music BC Workshop on November 19th at the Rotary Centre for the Arts (info TBA).
The final 12 K Comp artists will take part in a showcase the following week on November 27th at Habitat where they will get the chance to show off why they were chosen for this year’s compilation. Tickets are only available through the top 12 artists or through K96.3 so tune in for your chance to win or try and snag a pair from one of the artists!
You could win a pair of tickets to the show Thursday night!
A member of the band also plays with another popular Toronto-based band. What is that bands name? They played Duotone in Kelowna a few years ago!
Okanagan College Student Union and Habitat present:
The Rural Alberta Advantage w/ Pepper Rabbit and Imaginary Cities
$15 advance – Buy your tickets for this show here!
$20 door – $5 off if you show your student I.D.
Doors at 8pm, show at 9pm
I mentioned it back in August when the show was announced, but now the time has come! This will be one of those “can’t miss” shows!
The Rural Alberta Advantage play indie-rock folk songs about hometowns and heartbreak, born out of images from growing up in Central and Northern Alberta.They sing about summers in the Rockies and winters on the farm, ice breakups in the spring time and the oil boom’s charm, the mine workers on compressed, the equally depressed, the city’s slow growth and the country’s wild rose, but mostly the songs just try to embrace the advantage of growing up in Alberta.
Okanagan College Student Union and Habitat present:
The Rural Alberta Advantage w/ Pepper Rabbit and Imaginary Cities
$15 advance – Buy your tickets for this show here!
$20 door – $5 off if you show your student I.D.
Doors at 8pm, show at 9pm
I mentioned it back in August when the show was announced, but now the time has come! This will be one of those “can’t miss” shows!
The Rural Alberta Advantage play indie-rock folk songs about hometowns and heartbreak, born out of images from growing up in Central and Northern Alberta.They sing about summers in the Rockies and winters on the farm, ice breakups in the spring time and the oil boom’s charm, the mine workers on compressed, the equally depressed, the city’s slow growth and the country’s wild rose, but mostly the songs just try to embrace the advantage of growing up in Alberta.
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