w/ Hard Funk + C Fal
$10 – Buy tickets for this event here!
19+

Wild Son is a groove based folk rock quartet out of Kelowna, BC. From a mellow, sit down acoustic style to a high energy, ‘dance till you drop’ feeling, Wild Son has an ear to please a crowd on any occasion.

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Tickets also available at Leo’s Video (2680 Pandosy St) & Mosaic Books (411 Bernard Avenue).

Building on an exceptional 2012 sparked by the release of debut TRST, Trust resumes touring in early 2013, headlining across Canada and the U.S. including a show in Kelowna at The Habitat on March 6th. All tour dates.                                                                          

Listen up, B.C.! Teen magazine Youthink is one step closer to determining the winner of BC’s Best Teen Band Contest. On Friday, Youthink announced its Top 10 artists for BC’s Best Teen Band Contest 2013. Congratulations to the finalists (in alphabetical order):

1. ADOB – an alternative, funk, ska band from Port Moody

2. Collect Call – an indie-rock band from Surrey

3. DaniElle – a country solo artist from Pitt Meadows

4. How We Survive – an alternative, metal, punk band from Saanichton

5. Lucy Mistreated – an alternative, rock, blues band from Duncan

6. Northern Rain – an alt-rock band from Surrey

7. Roy Has Fire – an alt-rock band from Castlegar

8. The Distributors – a blues rock band from Nanaimo

9. The Flying Fishmongers – a rock metal band from North Vancouver

10. The Racket – a rock, blues, folk band from South Hazelton

Music industry judges Georges Couling, owner of Knuckleduster Music Inc. and music instructor at Vancouver Community College, Scott Johnson, Western Region Manager for Warner Music Canada, and Shaun Verreault, lead singer of Wide Mouth Mason, were tasked with narrowing down over 40 entries (that included a variety of musical influences, from country to funk to metal) to just 10 finalists.

Now, the fate of the Top 10 falls to music fans. Voting begins today, Monday, January 14th!

The three bands with the most votes will compete live at the Electric Owl in Vancouver on April 27, 2013 – only one will be crowned Youthink’s BC’s Best Teen Band 2013, winning the grand prize of a recording session with Jay Evjen of Juicemix Productions at Greenhouse Studios, $2000 cash for artist development, the May/June cover of Youthink magazine and more!

To cast your vote, head to http://www.youthink.ca/band-contest-2013

Stay up-to-date with band contest news through Youthink’s Facebook page.

Keep an eye out on Twitter @YouthinkMag #BTBC2013.

Youthink is a magazine written by teens, for teens. The 40,000-circulation publication is distributed in over 200 high schools in B.C. For more info, please visit youthink.ca/bandcontest.

Locarno is the Latin project of Juno award winning musician and Paperboys frontman, Tom Landa. The music, like him, is part Mexican but with strong doses of Cuban Son, Folk Music, Pop and Funk. There are threads of Son Jarocho and Salsa but the songs are more edgy and contemporary than that. The music could be compared to Manu Chao, Ozomatli or Rodrigo and Gabriela but although there are similarities it is truly original and a new flavour in the Latin music genre.

For the past few years Tom has been writing and recording the material for his project Locarno. His goal is to create music which is heavily influenced by Mexican music but using the elements and musicians around him in his hometown of Vancouver. A key element to this sound is the partnerships he has created with producer Joby Baker who has worked with several World/Latin artists including Alex Cuba and Miguelito Valdes who lends his trumpet and percussion talents to the project. Miguelito was born and raised in Havana Cuba and has played with Afro Cuban All Stars, Omara Portoundo and The Buena Vista Social Club. Rounding up the group is Sam Esecson on drums and percussion, Kalissa Hernandez on Violin and vocals and Nick La Riviere on trombone.

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It’s been another busy year in Kelowna for live music.  The inaugural Keloha Music Festival was a big hit, Centre of Gravity had another sold out year, and many great bands passed through town to play our live venues.  Doc Willoughbys, the Habitat, Kelowna Community Theatre, O’Flannigans and many more venues hosted some great local and international artists.

Here’s my Top local shows of 2012:

10. Malibu Knights / One Bad Son, Doc Willoughby’s, Feb. 4th, 2012
9. Portage & Main / Ma Petite, Streaming Cafe, Jan. 14th, 2012

8. The Once, Minstrel Cafe, March 28th, 2012

7. Said the Whale – Keloha Music Festival, July 6-8th, 2012
6. Sea + Air, Streaming Cafe, April 7th
5. Dan Mangan / Rural Alberta Advantage, Kelowna Community Theatre, Nov. 8th, 2012
4. Jim Cuddy / Doug Paisley, Kelowna Community Theatre, Jan. 10th, 2012

3. Roccocode / Cod Gone Wild / En Karma, Global Music Fest, Laural Packing House, Feb 24th, 2012
2. Joel Plaskett / Mo Kenney, Habitat, Sept. 25th, 2012
1. Dan Mangan  – Keloha Music Festival, July 6-8th, 2012

Past lists: 2007, 2008 and 2009,2010 and 2011…

It’s happening again! This is the annual Local, Organic and Zero Waste, Okanagan underground creative gathering known as conduit. A hundred Local artists will fill the Rotary center for the Arts with pictoral and sculptural installation for the month of February. The opening reception is a full day of live music, performance art, craft, organic fair, ecologically themed innovation and invention by the people for the people.

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Doors at 4pm, running until 2am 
$10 Students $15 General, Kids & Alternator Members $5 minimum donation

MAIN STAGE / RCA ATRIUM 
400-425pm Al Tarab
425-450pm Summerhill African Drumming Group
450-520pm Kalumba
520-555pm Open Drum Jam
555-605pm Rawle I am James
605-610pm Alex Eastman
610-635pm Killer Panda
635-645pm Darren Williams
645-655pm Jessica Bonney and Laura Sciarpelletti
655-715pm Nathan and Jeff
715-735pm Michael Musclow
735-755pm Vanessa Eides Tribe
755-815pm Joyful Door
815-835pm Windmills
835-845pm Cam Welch
845-945pm Ullus Collective: Billy Walker, John Terbasket, Warren Abrupt Hooley
945-1015pm Winter Provincial
1015-1035pm Hard Funk
1035-1115pm Van Damsel
1115-1120pm Ecotone Address
1120-1215pm Wild Son
1215-1245pm Kinshira
1230-200am Rumpus Room

ROVING PERFORMANCES
640-755pm Sound Cans
845-945pm Scott Mendonca

ARCADE ROOM 
700pm Curtis Stone “Green City Acres”
Cop car Bonfire
Psychic Boomers
Tiger Lillies
Toltec
Grizz Lee

ALTERNATOR CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
Main Gallery
Jose Luis Torres (Montreal)

Members Gallery
Cool Arts Claymation reel
and other film screenings, including a film by Kevin Mcgovern.

Visual Artists:

Meghan Wise
Shauna Oddleifson
Kyle Zsombor
Katie Csak
Abbie Cipes
Nadine Bradshaw
Kristen Amy Cresswell
Lucas Glenn
Kevin Jesuino
Shimshon Obadia
Rena Warren
Richard Clegg
DUO-(artists Melanie Newell & kayleigh mace)
Catherine Dumontreuil
Wyatt Parker
Sheena Gibson
Ullus Collective:
Levi George, Linda Anderson, Sheldon Louis
Alfred Snow, Stephanie Ohles,
Elise Hann
Sherilyn Williams
Liz Dumont
Desiree Wagner
Brit Bachman
Alyson Dawn
Marion Krahn
Sara Gagnon
Carrie Harper
Nikki Balfour
Matthew Neimann
Heather Hollingdale
Nathanuel
David & Jorden Doody
RCA residents open studio
And more…

Crafters/ Exhibitors:

CuRio Designs
Capricornocopia
Fractal Photography (Shannon Holand)
Mayan Craft and Oracle (Merium Cunha)
Maybe- Green Peace
No Pipelines No Tankers
Nateah Designs
Random Tandem
Kub’s Dyes
Herb & Petal
Sunshine Farms Seeds
Green City Acres
Divine Expressions
HemptatiousDeZigns
Fruit Tree Project
Scribbled Sun
afuxartglass
Morning Dove Gardens

Beer & Wine:
Summerhill Pyramid Winery
Nelson Brewery

Andrew Smith has assembled a top notch band. This winter at The Pheasant and Quail Pub, Andrew and his band “The Public House Band” will be hosting Singalong Saturdays. This weekly event will be the talk of the town.

Starting in January the pub will be rockin with the sound of people singing together! The band has prepared an evening of oustanding singable songs that we all know and love.

This is NOT Karaoke, and it’s NOT about whether you are a great singer. It is more in the tradition of Irish/Scottish pub singalongs or the ‘chansonier’ pubs of Quebec – where people come together and everyone sings – just for the fun of it.

Indeed western Canada seems to be one of the few places in the world where this isn’t part of the culture – and so many of us have not experienced the joy and sense of community that comes from sharing a pint AND a song with a hundred other merry-makers.

So let’s build a new community tradition – right here in Kelowna – where we can all come down to the local pub and join in the music.

January 19 at 8:30pm until March 16 at 11:30pm