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Western Canadian Music Awards and festival set to descend upon Kelowna in 2010

Your browser may not support display of this image.What a huge win for Quinn, the staff at the Habitat and MusicBC. Kelowna has been gaining greater and greater exposure on the national arts & entertainment scene thanks to the hard work of the people at the Habitat, and the dedicated live music fans that keep coming out to support the local shows. All this has paid off, and Kelowna is getting the WCMAs in 2010. The 2009 WCMAs are held in Brandon, Manitoba and the keynote speaker is the wonderful Loreena McKennit. I wonder who will be in Kelowna next year?

Western Canadian Music Awards and festival set to descend upon Kelowna in 2010

City of Kelowna to welcome over 300 music industry delegates, and performances by some of Western Canada’s finest artists.

(Kelowna, August 24, 2009)

After much anticipation we are excited to announce that the 2010 Western Canadian Music Awards have been awarded to Kelowna. This is an exciting opportunity as it is the first time Kelowna will host a major music event of its type. The event consists of three main components: a conference, festival and awards show, with all three components open to the public. Mark your calendars for this large scale music event to be held October 14 -17, 2010.

The WCMAs provide participants opportunities to share knowledge of the music industry, enjoy the talents of Western Canadian artists and collectively celebrate great achievements in the industry. The festival will showcase local Kelowna and British Columbian musicians as well as those from the Yukon, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. The next big musical acts are consistently invited to play the festival. Over three nights the festival will feature over 70 bands playing in venues across the city, making the WCMAs one of the hottest tickets in town. The weekend will be capped when the hardware is handed out at the WCMA Awards Gala.

The bid to host the awards has been in the works since January 2009. The momentum of the work first went public when the bid was unanimously supported by Kelowna City Council in June with a commitment of one third of the funds to be raised by the host committee.

“As a key supporter of the bid and the event, the City of Kelowna is looking forward to extending a warm welcome to all of the artists and industry professionals involved in the 2010 Western Canadian Music Awards. It’s a valuable opportunity to showcase our vibrant live music community and give them a chance to grow and learn from the best. Our performers, venues and volunteers are all eager to start pulling the details together,” Sandra Kochan, Cultural Services Manager, City of Kelowna.

The event will have a significant economic impact when more than 300 delegates from all of western Canada and the Yukon descend on the city for five days in a tourist shoulder season. Hosting the event will contribute to putting Kelowna on the map as a key music industry hub and tour stop, creating long term impacts.

“We are very excited to be bringing the WCMAs to Kelowna for 2010. The community has shown an incredible commitment to the award show, festival and conference. For BC, the WCMAs is a great post-Olympics event,” Bob D’Eith, President of WCMAs.

Western Canadian Music Awards
October 14 -17, 2010
Kelowna, BC

For more information contact the following members of the Kelowna bid committee:
Quinn Best (host committee chair), 250-718-3999
Karma Lacoff, 250-864-6869
Or contact:

Rick Fenton, Executive Director, Western Canadian Music Alliance, 204-943-8485
Amanda Schweers, Music BC Industry Association, 604-873-1914

Tonight, Aug. 22nd – David Blair at the Streaming Cafe

David Blair, a pop/rock singer/songwriter from Vancouver, has been gaining awards and notoriety across the Canadian and North American music scene for the last 3 years. He found his first break after being chosen as a finalist for the Demo Listen Contest put on by Vancouver radio station, 99.3 The Fox. The result of which saw three of David’s songs placed on a compilation album, local radio airplay and opening slots for Nickelback as well as The Barstool Prophets.

Read More About the Artist: https://streamingcafe.net/artist/20/

Monday at the Blue Gator – Young Rivals

Young Rival isn’t going to just sit around waiting for that elusive record deal to happen, though. After a coast-to-coast tour (the young men came west with the Sadies last year), the band is going to head back into the studio to finish off another record its been working on in Ontario. One of the tracks, a cover of Beach House’s “Master of None,” already garnered a positive Pitchfork review.

Young Rival’s brand of ‘60s garage-influenced rock doesn’t seriously break any moulds, but it does beautifully evoke those good times when parents shook their heads at hair so long it brushed the collar, and the guys have fun doing it.

Treelight Room: treelight room began making music together in the fall of 2007… to this day nobody really knows how it happened– it just did. How fortunate that by chance they all seem to balance each other out fairly well; where one may be weaker, the other excels. In addition, as they started creating together, they found that their individual styles were different, but had enough similarity to blend and produce a pretty unique and fun sound! Since discovering that there are actually people out there who want to hear their music, Treelight Room has spent their time writing tunes and playing shows at local venues around the Okanagan and in November 2008 they professionally recorded their first EP ‘The Children Win’ which was released at the end of January 2009. In the spring of 2009 Treelight Room headed out on their first tour, hitting up BC, AB, SK, and MA, with the hopes to share their music with some more music-lovin’ Canadians! It went AWESOMELY! It has been said that Treelight Room is “Catchy as frick!” So… watch out! [Keep an eye out for upcoming shows/events/details and other fun fun fun on Treelight Room’s Facebook site as well. yippeeee!] realeditorbest profile toolsrealeditorbest profile tools

The Cartographers:
Born of island fun and indie grit, The Cartographers follow in the tradition on Colourbook, Cobras Cobras Cobras and similiar Old Life Records artists’. Always a bit noisy, and always fun.

August 14th @ the Bohemian Cafe

BOHEMIAN CAFE
524 Bernard Avenue
Kelowna, BC
(250) 862-3517
presents

The Trevor Salloum Jazz Trio 7-10pm
featuring LA vocalist Kelly Salloum 7-8pm
August 14th
$10 Cover

Throughout her tenure in Los Angeles, Kelly Salloum has worked with an illustrious list of jazz and pop luminaries including performances and recording sessions with: bassists “Senator” Eugene J. Wright (Dave Brubeck, Count Basis, Charlie Parker), Trey Henry (Anita O’Day, Jack Sheldon, Gerald Wilson), Johnny Kirkwood (Carmen McCrae, Ella Fitzgerald), and Sherman Ferguson (Dizzy Gillespie, Horace Silver); guitarists Al Viola (Frank Sinatra, Julie London), Brian Mulroney (Gloria Estafan, Tom Jones), and Brad Rabuchin (Ray Charles).

“Kelly Salloum is onto something . . . She braids together disparate stylistic strands, waving elements of classic band thrush tradition, cool-jazz chick-singer bite and the detached moderne verve of Sade into a solid, gleaming whole . . . Poised, elegant, lovely, Salloum
also imparts a smoldering air of mystery and the exotic.”
– J. Whiteside, Los Angeles Weekly

Lioness with Grand Analog at the Habitat – Fri. Aug. 7th

This is going to be a great show (sorry I’m going to miss it).

New Romantic recording artist, Lioness came together, almost in secret, in Toronto in the winter of 2007, when Jeff Scheven and Ronnie Morris, the rhythm section behind the dark, stomping disco pulses of controller.controller, hooked up with Vanessa Fischer of soul-punk quartet No Dynamics. Honing their craft by playing low-key after-hours sets in sweaty, off-the-radar locales throughout the city, the band nonetheless generated a remarkable undercurrent of buzz in the following months, leading to support slots with the likes of !!!, Hercules and the Love Affair, You Say Party! We Say Die! and K-OS.

Their sans-guitar sound is like a head-on collision of old and new, as Fischer draws upon jazz, old soul and blues, roaring and moaning over layers of electronic squall and elastic rhythms like a witch in heat. It’s a clash of organic and synthetic, the sound of disco and house music filtered and distorted through the instrumental apparatus of live rock and roll. On stage, they are a synthesis of electronic rock band and performance art project, a drum and bass wall of sound bathed in red light.

Check out their video now being played on Much, Much More Music and MTV Canada.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdQk1oiUmmQ

Grand Analog is fronted by Odario Williams. Members include Ofield Williams (DJ), Alister Johnson (keys), Warren Bray (bass) and Damon Mitchell (guitar). Grand Analog is a raw collective of seasoned record collectors, musicians and self described beat junkies. Odario describes the Grand Analog sound as a beautiful mess of rap’n’roll, dub and soul. “Grand Analog is unbalanced and dirty; never clean. Grand Analog is fuzzy with three coats of dust and reads like an old manual no longer in use”. Catch them before they head to Shambhala

$10 advance, $12 door
Tickets available at Leo’s Video and Habitat

Sub Pop’s Fruit Bats at Sturgeon Hall – Aug. 15th

Sub Pop recording artists are doing a warmup show at Sturgeon Hall on August 15 before embarking on a 37 date Canadian/US tour in support of their third album “The Ruminant Band.”

Advance tickets are available at Sturgeon Hall, and there are only 80 tickets total so you definitely want to pick one up before they are all gone. There may or may not be tickets available on the night of the show.

Show starts at 9:30 pm, but please be advised to arrive early to get the best seats. There are only 40-45 seats in the main room where the band is playing, and if you arrive late you may have to sit in the bar or the patio where the sight lines may not be great.