What a great way to spend an evening as the nights are getting earlier…  check out some live music!

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Check out Milkcrate Records on November 23rd for lots of new releases and specials!

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GO ‘BACK TO BLACK’ FRIDAY AT YOUR LOCAL INDEPENDENT RECORD STORE (from our good friends at Record Store Day)

Ah, Black Friday. Even if you’re averse to the crowds and the crazy, there is a great place to go shopping on that day after (American) Thanksgiving, and it’s your friendly neighborhood record store. We think that there are terrific things, treasures even, at record stores every day and we’re just upping the ante a little bit on Black Friday with some limited edition vinyl, CDs, DVDs, box sets, and this year even a box of trading cards. Things you can ONLY get at a record store, and some things you can get FIRST at a record store. Things that are perfect to give/get this holiday season, EVEN if you’re doing that shopping for yourself.

Date: Nov 2, 2012
Pre-Show: Aaron Gordon   6:30PM
Price: $30 per adult / $10 per student  

Singer-songwriter Danny Michel has quite an eclectic catalogue of music to his credit.  Among his eight solo albums, is a David Bowie tribute album called Loving the Alien.   Other albums have names such as Tales From the Invisible Man, and Feather, Fur & Fin.  Born in Kitchener, Ontario, Danny is currently in Central America recording a new album with members of the Garifuna Collective.  With echoes of Garifuna, rock, funk, and Caribbean music, mashing genres together has always been exciting.

A quick bit of background: The Garifuna are an ethnic minority in Central America, whose roots are a mix of African and indigenous traditions. Michel, like many of us who listen to Garifuna music, is finding inspiration in their unique, engaging musical vocabulary. But unlike many of us, he is capable of doing something new, exciting and creative with that inspiration.

Danny is an innovator, demonstrating that creative artists in the digital age can build a rich, successful and intimate relationship with their fans. He gained publicity in 2008 for making the tracks of his hit single “Feather, Fur & Fin” available for his fans to remix and then posting their submissions on his website.   

October was a flurry of Germany and Austria engagements so don’t miss your chance to see this dynamic performer in Kelowna for one night only.

About Rotary Centre for the Arts

Located in the heart of Kelowna’s Cultural District, the Rotary Centre for the Arts is a unique multi-disciplinary arts centre that offers a wide array of events and activities. At the RCA, the community can experience artists and performers in action, while sharing in the excitement of strengthening art and culture in the Okanagan.

Rotary Centre for the Arts    email: info@rotarycentreforthearts.com

Indie folk-rock band Shred Kelly from Fernie, BC bring album release tour to the Minstrel Cafe on Thursday October 25th.

Shred Kelly is a formulation of friends and foot stomping good times born in the East Kootenay’s of British Columbia. Hailing from the town of Fernie, the five piece band is best known for mixing clawhammer banjo riffs that tear the fabric of space and time with ambient synth, high voltage guitar, fierce drums, and hauntingly sweet vocal harmonies to produce a sound that has been properly coined “Stoke Folk”.

While their gritty and fun 2010 album “Goodbye July” still resonates strongly with boot slappin’ slacker anthems such as “I Hate Work” and “Ghost Inside My Head”, their newest full length album release “In the Hills” takes the mountain string band and adds a cup of electric shock, belting out stories of small town love and tragedy in the places they hail from.  Having recently been awarded 2012 Artist of the Year at the Kooteney Music Awards and winning a spot on the Green Couch Sessions/CBC Radio 3 ‘Tracks on Tracks’ train adventure from Vancouver to Toronto, Shred Kelly is turning banjo doubters into sweaty indie folk rock believers on the dance floor, one town at a time.

Saskatchewan songwriter Andy Shauf and his band will be giving Western Canada their first taste his first full length LP since 2008, “The Bearer of Bad News” to be released November 6^th. Listen to the song “You’re Out Wasting” below.

November 3 – Kelowna BC @ Streaming Cafe w/ Evening Hymns
Stream ‘You’re Out Wasting‘
Watch album teaser video

Four years of wasting summer days away, endless winter nights waiting for cold minutes to tick by, months strung together by time spent on the roads spanning Canada and the US – these are the elements that have inspired Andy Shauf’s sophomore album, The Bearer of Bad News, which is set to be released on November 6th, 2012.

Not rushing things might be a trait taken from Andy Shauf’s prairie upbringing. Marking the time between his debut album, Darker Days (2008) and his forthcoming album was the EP Sam Jones Feeds His Demons, which he released independently in March of 2012.

It is Andy’s distinctive ability to sit with his songs and his humble appreciation of that time spent that makes him one of the most engaging emerging songwriters in Canada.

Known for both honest and raw self-reflective songs as well as captivating lyrical works of fiction, the handful of years Andy took to release this album led him to explore the themes of uncertainty, curiosity and spirituality. “I think spirituality is a huge part of life whether you are religious or not, even if you’re just superstitious. You can’t really get away from the fact that we don’t know everything.” The unsettling stories told on The Bearer of Bad News came as Andy wrote both at home and on the road. Musically, the record took shape in a modest home studio in his parents basement, where Andy spent hours writing, recording and producing each song himself. “Spending all this time allowed me a lot of freedom in the ways I arranged the songs. I could work on a drum part for a whole day, or play piano for 2 hours without figuring anything out and be okay with that.”

Building unassuming melodies from the sounds of a weathered piano, the warm resonance of the aged strings on his acoustic guitar, and of course, the clarinet; the heart of The Bearer of Bad News still resides in Andy’s clear voice and dark musical storytelling.

In the record’s final stages, Andy came together with producer and engineer; Jonathan Anderson (Aidan Knight, Jordan Klassen) to give the record it’s polished sound, while still maintaining the authentic humble approach that listeners of Andy Shauf have come to appreciate.

The Bearer of Bad News track listing:

1. Hometown Hero
2. Drink My Rivers
3. I’m Not Falling Asleep
4. Covered In Dust
5. Wendell Walker
6. You’re Out Wasting
7. The Man On Stage
8. Jesus, She’s A Good Girl
9. Lick Your Wounds
10. Jerry Was A Clerk
11. My Dear Helen

www.andyshauf.com
www.twitter.com/andyshauf

Costumes, complimentary photography, prizes, drink specials, and local music. Everything you could want from a Saturday night!
$10 cover

Aaron Gordon
My Kind Of Karma
Crowd The Joanna

Prizes for best dressed individual, pair, and group. Everything from free merch, to free booze. Not to mention some random give aways! I hear there is a texas mickey…

Drink specials include $12 jugs, $4 high balls, jello shots, shotski (5 shots on a ski) $20

Vancouver Songwriter To Embark On Second Cross Country Tour This Year In Support Of 2012 EP Kindness, Continues To Prepare For Upcoming 2013 Release.  

With a year of notable accomplishments under his belt, including being named one of BC’s top 20 unsigned artists in the Peak Performance Project and a large collection of film and television placements, Jordan Klassen has been going local and asking Vancouverites to share their favourite locations in their city. The initiative is encouraging people take instagram photos of these spots and tweet them with the hash tag #VanCorners. Klassen has filmed a series of acoustic performance videos filmed on location at his favourite #VanCorners and has released the first three of four. In the meantime, he is preparing to head out of Vancouver with Mike Edel for the second national tour this year to road test the songs from his upcoming 2013 album. All tour dates are below.

Watch ‘Jordan Klassen #VanCorners – Episode 1 – 3: http://vimeo.com/50269565 / http://vimeo.com/49501187 / http://vimeo.com/49015524

 Stream Jordan Klassen’s single ‘Go To Me‘

 Jordan Klassen Tour Dates with Mike Edel

October 17 – Vancouver, BC @ Tom Lee Music Hall (Abbey Road on Granville Street Benefit for the UGM) **
October 25 – Kelowna, BC @ Habitat
October 26 – Linden, AB @ Linden Cultural Center
October 27 – Lethbridge, AB @ The Miz
October 29 – Caronport @  ‘The Den’ at Briercrest
October 30 – Regina, SK @ The Artful Dodger
November 1 – Sault St. Marie, ON @ Lop Lop Lounge and Gallery
November 3 – Toronto, ON @ The Rivoli  w/ Paper Lions and Gabrille Papillon **
November 5 – Hamilton, ON @ The Casbah
November 7 – Toronto, ON @ The Cameron House
November 8 – Peterborough, ON @ The Spill
November 9 – Montreal, QC @ Burittoville
November 11 – Ottawa, ON @ Elmdale Tavern
November 14 – Winnipeg, MB @ West End Cultural Center
November 15 – Saskatoon, SK @ Vangelis
November 16 – Edmonton, AB @ The Elevation Room
November 17 – Calgary, AB @ The Ironwood
November 30 – Victoria, BC @ Lucky Bar
December 1 – Vancouver, BC @ The Media Club

** Does not include Mike Edel on the bill

More info on Jordan Klassen:

 Info on Mike Edel: http://www.mikeedel.com/

 
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