After a hugely successful 1st year in 2012, The Global Music Fest returns for another weekend of great entertainment at the Laurel Packinghouse!

Fri. March 1st(19+): the Boom Booms & The Ponderosas
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Sat. March 2nd (19+): Mazacote & Kytami
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Sun. March 3rd (all ages): Jodi King and Corey Doak (Trinity)

Tickets: $12/night in advance $15 @ Door/night

Time: 8:00-11:30 pm

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Expanded to 3 days in 2013, the festival of ethically flavoured music features indie darlings; The Boom Boom’s and the extraordinary Latin dance band Mazacote. On Friday and Saturday nights, the adult crowd will enjoy a variety of emerging artists from around BC at this guaranteed crowd-pleaser hosted in the heart of Kelowna’s cultural district. Local NGO’s will also be featured at the event educating on ways that this age group can become involved locally.

Get out your dancing shoes, Global Music Fest will be sure to entertain, educate and inspire

2012 highlight reel

Friday Nite Live Series at Milkcrate Records  continues this week with Paperboy and opener Bjorn Kriel… 7:00 pm kickoff, and as always, all ages and FREE !! Awesome Fresh City coffee and Packinghouse Pie, don’t miss it

Streaming Cafe is proud to present Dear Rouge – 2012 Winner of The PEAK Performance Project with special guest Bed of Stars on their Western Canada tour in support of their new EP release, “Kids Wanna Know”. Dear Rouge (Husband/Wife duo, Drew and Danielle McTaggart) are making a return visit to Kelowna on Thursday January 31, 2013 at Streaming Cafe.

Upon hearing their song, You Step Out Of Nowhere, one has to wonder if Dear Rouge is referring to themselves. With the release of their debut EP, Heads Up Watch Out (released in April 2012), Vancouver-based duo hit the scene with an incredibly accomplished set of songs, production and presence. Now, only six months after their debut release, Dear Rouge have followed up with the five track, Kids Wanna Know EP (released in October 2012).

If this infectious one-two combo wasn’t enough to punch their way into the hearts of alternative music fans, they’re also the 2012 Winner of The PEAK Performance Project, the biggest radio station artist development project in Canada. The PEAK Performance Project is a professional development program to help new and emerging artists create careers in the music industry, with the top prize of $102,700.00 to the winning band.

It doesn’t take long to see that Dear Rouge is a fully realized project, from conception to execution, created and crafted from a perspective only years of professional touring, performing and writing can bring.

After playing a great show in Kelowna this past March, The Once return to Kelowna on Feb. 19th at the Minstrel Cafe

Hot on the heels of a successful tour of Ireland and the UK, Newfoundland folk trio, The Once, are bringing their award winning sound to Ontario and Western Canada this winter.

Without question, The Once is one of the most exciting, promising and gifted musical groups to emerge from Newfoundland & Labrador in decades. In a relatively short time, they have carved out an important place in Canada’s musical and cultural fabric. The Once garner large, enthusiastic audiences at home and abroad and their reputation as kind and gracious performers is met equally with fantastic musicianship and effortless chemistry.

It has been a successful few years for the group with five Music Newfoundland and Labrador Awards, three Canadian Folk Music Awards, an East Coast Music Award for Group Recording of the Year (2011) and a Juno nomination for Roots/Traditional album of the Year (2012). Most recently, the trio was nominated for three 2013 East Coast Music Awards. The Once are a well traveled bunch, headlining shows right across Canada, Britain, Ireland, Denmark and Australia.

The Once have captured the country’s attention with their heartfelt delivery of both original and traditional Newfoundland songs. ‘Row Upon Row of the People They Know’ is their second full length album and was released on Borealis Records in the fall of 2011. Based on the classic folk trios of the sixties, the band marries Americana and indie-folk sounds with the traditional flavours of Newfoundland. The result is something both serene and majestic, a side of Newfoundland music rarely heard outside its Island home.

For More information on The Once:
www.theonce.ca

Ontario & Western Canada Tour Dates:

Feb 6: Parry Sound, ON
Charles W. Stockey Centre

Feb 7: Haliburton, ON
Northern Lights Pavillion

Feb 9: Turner Valley, AB
Beneath the Arch

Feb 11: Regina, SK
Creative City Centre

Feb 12: Saskatoon, SK
The Bassment

Feb 15-17: Whitehorse, YT
Frostbite Festival

Feb 19: Kelowna, BC
Minstrel Cafe

Feb 20: Vancouver, BC
Railway Club

Feb 23: Calgary, AB
Ironwood Stage and Grill

Feb 26: Fort Nelson, BC
Phoenix Theatre

Feb 27: Grand Prairie, AB
Second Street Theatre

Feb 28: Fort St. John, BC
North Peace Cultural Centre

March 1: Sherwood Park, AB
Festival Place

March 2: Calgary, AB
Bow Valley Music Club
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“Brent Tyler, In Rhythm…Folk rock with feeling, this album builds on Tyler’s soulful voice and acoustic instrumentation.”

– Avenue Magazine

“Brent Tyler…a Tall man with a Grande talent and a Venti heart!”- Jonathan Love, California 103FM Radio

“With a few humble opening lines, the environment changed. In a casual space of around thirty seats, the air became warmer as Tyler’s gorgeous, melodious vocals washed through the space and the band’s instruments melted together into one whole, living sound. Where was I when this music played? Perhaps I was on a sunny beach or driving deep into green farmland; I was somewhere good. This continued on throughout the hours until 11:00pm hit, with everything bleeding together in a mix of honest stories, humour, band antics and, whether it was in dancing for those who did, in Brent’s lyrics or recollections, or in the testimony Matt gave at the show’s close, love. Through the soft originals and fast, either of which set to exclaim Tyler’s ability as a guitarist, to a final, pitch-perfect encore of Van Morrison’s “Into the Mystic,” what existed in that tight warm space on 30th Avenue was love– for life, for the art, for possibly everything. Big love.”

– Graeme Higginson, oook.ca

Partners up with friends Zeus on west coast dates
Listen to new single Six Dead Tigers now; news on a brand new tour vinyl release coming soon!

After hitting over 150 stages in North America & Europe since the 2012 release of their new album Tiger Talk, the Vancouver based band are ready to take the show back on the road this spring. The fall of 2012 saw Yukon Blonde share the stage with The Jezabels across the USA and The Sheepdogs across Canada  including a sold out performance to over 4000 people at Echo Beach in Toronto. They performed at major festivals such as Osheaga, Edgefest, NXNE, Wolfe Island Music Festival, Ottawa Folk Fest, Capitol Hill Block Party (Seattle), Denver Underground Music Festival and they even played at the official Much Music Video Awards after party with The Lumineers.


Yukon Blonde’s sophomore album Tiger Talk was the #4 most played album of the year at Canadian college and campus radio as reported by !earshot, was long listed for The Polaris Music Prize and has garnered widespread critical acclaim since being released by Dine Alone Records on March 20. The lead single “Stairway” was featured on commercials for the Toronto Blue Jays and played at their home games while an alternate version of “My Girl” is the soundtrack for a current Tourism Canada campaign with almost 700,000 views so far and now airing at major movie theatres in the UK. Heck, they were even name dropped on an episode of How I Met Your Mother. 

Full tour dates are listed below and can also be found HERE
New Photos and media materials are HERE

Praise for Tiger Talk –

“10 tracks of awesome” – Uptown 

“If you thought you knew Yukon Blonde, get ready to be wowed all over again. “ – The Georgia Straight

“Big, crunchy guitar solos blast between catchy choruses, guitar jangle and ambitious harmonies, ..an enthusiastic, confident follow-up from a band well on its way.  – NOW Magazine

“Fat guitar riffs, big choruses thick with vocal harmonies, loud drums, and some tricky changes all held together with a pop sensibility: This is music for car rides. – Pop Matters

“Huge four-part harmonies and songs meant to be sung at full volume barrelling down the Pacific Coast highway … sharp and sassy.” – The Record

“Melodies that become engrained in your head” – Here Magazine

Come on down to Milkcrate Records and enjoy the sweet sounds of Kelowna’s Joyful Door on Friday Jan 18th at 6:30pm. 

Performing songs off their latest EP ‘More than the Sparrows’ and some new tracks!

This is a free all ages event so bring your friends, bring your family and eat some delicious pie from Milkcrate while supporting great local music. A sure fire way to beat the winter blues.

We will have Our limited edition silk screened posters as well as our EP for sale. So bring your Christmas coin!