You probably seen Curtis playing around Kelowna last year at Cabana’s or the Minstrel Cafe…. check out his new video!
Video created by Ebony Price
Concert Photography by Joshua Dool
Ever After Written arranged and performed by Curtis Parry
Stefan Bienz-upright bass
Curtis Parry-vocals, guitars, strings, drums
Produced and engineered by Curtis Parry for stoneface productions
Copyright Curtis Parry, 2010
All Rights Reserved
Local celtic rock band Cod Gone Wild adds its world sound to Satuday night as the openers for Rococode and En Karma.
Cod Gone Wild is a rambunctious modern Celtic band, based out of the Okanagan Valley of beautiful British Columbia. The “cods” have melded veteran musicians from diverse musical backgrounds to create an edgy version of traditional, contemporary and original Celtic, Irish and Newfoundland music. Their unique arrangements, rich harmonies, driving rhythms and up-beat stage presence create a powerful genre of music that is positively infectious. People cannot help but clap, tap, and dance along to the beat. It’s like your whole body is having a party…Suddenly, without warning, you’re flippin’ and floppin’ and skippin’ and jumpin’ like a Cod Gone Wild.
Chekhov’s Shorts
February 23-25 2012 at 7:30PM
Theatre Smith Gilmour (Ont)
Adapted by Dean Gilmour and Michele Smith
The tales are vintage Chekhov, lovingly decanted and stylishly presented, with humour and pathos riding tandem throughout.” The Toronto Star
An intense experience you won’t soon forget. Montreal Gazette.
Theatre Smith-Gilmour’s Chekhov’s Shorts made its World Première in Toronto, Canada in November 1999 to critical and audience acclaim. Based on the short stories of Anton Chekhov, the uniqueness of this work led them to create the four-play Chekhov Cycle which also includes Chekhov longs…In the Ravine, Dr. Chekhov: Ward 6 and Chekhov’s Heartache. The Chekhov Cycle’s success has resulted in more than 350 performances across Canada and in China to numerous accolades.
Adapted by Dean Gilmour and Michele Smith with the company, this first installment of the Chekhov Cycle has played to sold-out audiences and won three Dora Mavor Moore Awards: Outstanding Actor, Outstanding Director, and Outstanding Production.
Based on five bittersweet short stories, Chekhov’s On the Train provides the framework for this 90-minute one-act work. As the play opens, we see four passengers embark on a train voyage across Russia’s frozen wastelands from Happy-Trach-Tarrach Station to the station known as Run-For-Your-Life. The passengers are a wonderful array of characters and slowly, their stories are revealed, hidden within each other like matrioshkas.
Tickets are $30 adults and $10 students and are available at www.selectyourtickets.com or by calling the RCA 250-717-5304
Vernon’s Andrew Allen brings his globe trotting experience and joyful pop songs to the stage as Friday night’s headliner. Andrew is joined by Vancouver’s experimental pop band, Behind Sapphire and Yukon rockers, Speed Control.
Saturday night has more of a world music bent to it with a bill topped by North America’s pre-eminent Bhangra group, En Karma. The Surrey band wowed crowds at Robson Square during the Vancouver Olympics, the 2009 Salmon Arms Roots and Blues Festival, Surrey’s Party for the Planet in 2011, and the Vancouver 125 celebrations. Warming the stage for En Karma is Radio 3 darlings, Rococode, who just released their first album. The baroque inspired indie band from Vancouver is no stranger to Kelowna, having played its debut show at BreakOut West 2010. Local celtic rock band Cod Gone Wild adds its world sound to Satuday night as the openers. The dance floor will be prepped for this energetic night of Canadian world music.
Friday’s event is all ages and Saturday’s event is 19+.
Tickets are on sale now. Advanced tickets are $15/night or $18 at the door (limited number) and available in Kelowna at Leo’s Video, 2680 Pandosy St. or here.
Global Music Fest is a Global Citizen Kelowna event and kickstarts Global Citizen Week 2012. The goals for the week are to entertain, education and inspire change.
By Jennifer Smith – Kelowna Capital News
Published: February 01, 2012 5:00 PM
After four years on tour, it will be a nice reprieve for Vernon’s Andrew Allen to take the lead on the second annual Global Music Fest at the Laurel Packinghouse this month.
Announced as the headliner on Wednesday, Feb. 1, the active Twitter bug let the odd hint fly via social media prior to the big drum roll with a brief promo plug for the event mid-January.
Either way, the choice should have been obvious according to event founder and organizer Ryan Donn.
“Andrew has always been on the radar,” he said. “He’s the perfect person to headline it. Andrew is a person whose always had a connection with his community, but he’s also our global musician. He’s our ambassador for Canada, so we thought lets bring him back and have him play and bring in that ‘how do you want to engage with the world around you?’ element. As he walks the streets of Nashville, he’s representing Canada.”
“That’s right,” Allen chimed in during a joint interview with the pair. “I have a large Canadian flag tattoo on my body and I walk around naked.”
Characteristically lighthearted, Allen is every bit the ambassador for the event, though he’s been rubbing some pretty highfalutin shoulders of late, opening for big acts like Bruno Mars, The Script, Barenaked Ladies (at the Kentucky Derby) and OneRepublic (in Golden Gate Park).
Following on the heels of last year’s main act Shane Koyczan, Allen gives Global Music Fest some big name pizzazz and the artist himself gets a brief dalliance in the headlining limelight after several years as wingman to some of the biggest names in the business.
Now a full weekend event, Global Music Fest is all about acting locally to have an effect globally and kicks off Global Citizen week in the Okanagan. As such, it draws the non-profit sector together, using artists to attract attention for causes. And Allen appears to be the perfect prototype.
Sporting a Flex Watch, with different wristbands colour-coded to support causes, Allen said he plays a Duncan Africa guitar built in Africa to help support a village (it’s tweaked by a guitar master in the Lower Mainland for fine tuning).
In January, he stopped in Vernon and treated his hometown to a concert, allowing local high school students to get some experience by joining him on stage. He’s a huge believer in the school band program, he said, noting he came through the system himself.
Come Global Music Fest, local singer/songwriters will reap the benefits of this benevolent style. Six songwriters—Dan Oig, Brent Taylor, Leah West, Mark Irving, Jeff Piattelli and Jeff Pike—have all been selected to write a song for six local non-profit organizations. The organizations receive a little publicity and a final product they can use in future marketing initiatives and the artists get a chance to compete on their skills, write a radio-friendly song and fire a few tough questions Allen’s way.
Spins on the radio and media attention are critical in the Canadian music business, Allen said.
“Especially in the Canadian music industry, we need to have heard that somebody is qualified,” he said. “So if you have songs on radio, then all of a sudden people go: oh, okay, he’s alright. We need somebody to tell us it’s good.”
As someone who once offered himself up for living room sessions in an artist-for-hire routine, Allen has blazed the trail from small town B.C. starving artist to gigs opening for big bands like Train and says marketing, connections and, above all else, radio play will ensure a musician makes it to the top of the pile.
What one chooses to do with that success is really the wild card.
Ask Allen where he would like to go and he’s got the layout for his first major headliner show all dialed in.
“It would totally be movements. The show would start off with a big explosive bang and party section and then I love to, in the middle of a set, bring it way down and get very intimate.
“And I know for sure I would have a really cool horn section,” he added, noting he played the saxophone in high school, learned guitar from Vernon’s Neil Fraser and started piano at age five.
Andrew Allen plays Global Music Fest in Kelowna February 24, followed by En Karma, Rococode and Cod Gone Wild Feb. 25 at the Laurel Packinghouse. Tickets are $15 available at Leo’s videos or online.
Kreater Custom Motorcycles, High Tide Entertainment & 1st Video Band is proud to present Grammy Award winner Paul Rodgers who will be performing in Concert at Kelowna Community Theatre March 15, 2012. VIP Tickets will include an exclusive Concert “SWAG” pack including T-shirts, CDs, Lanyards, pre concert refreshments in KCT green room etc., The VIP tickets will be available at Kreater Custom Motorcycles. Special Guests will be Kelowna recording artists the FLU.
Tickets available at Select Your Tickets box office and online at www.selectyourtickets.com Friday February 3rd.
Doors – 6:30 pm
The FLU – 7:30 pm
Paul Rodgers – 8:30 pm
Paul Rodgers has sold in excess of 125 million records / CD’s! Writer and vocalist, Paul Rodgers has given us such rock anthems and hits songs as: CAN’T GET ENOUGH, ROCK ‘N’ ROLL FANTASY, ALL RIGHT NOW, SHOOTING STAR, FEEL LIKE MAKIN’ LOVE, RUNNIN’ WITH THE PACK, MOVIN’ ON, RADIOACTIVE, SATISFACTION GUARANTEED, GOOD LOVIN GONE BAD, YOUNG BLOOD, READY FOR LOVE, BAD COMPANY…and more.
Worldwide, musicians and critics have dubbed Paul Rodgers “THE VOICE”. Never before has any artist led three bands to international success in addition to creating a successful solo career, until Paul Rodgers. He is undeniably one of music’s most distinctive vocalists. He has written and recorded some of rock’s greatest hits, released 27 C.D.’s and sold 125 million C.D.’s
Prior to his solo career, Rodgers formed supergroup Bad Company, writing and singing smash hits like Grammy nominated “Fell Like Making Love” and “Can’t Get Enough”, “Shooting Star”, “Bad Company”, “Run With The Pack”, the last two featuring Paul on piano as well as vocals, plus “Rock n’ Roll Fantasy” with Paul on guitar and vocals. “Bad Company took off”, recalls Rodgers. “When we started our first U.S. tour, the album was #99 on the charts. Two months later it hit #1”. Bad Company earned six multi-platinum albums. “10 from 6” the group’s greatest hits compilation remains a top seller.
It was his joint billing with Led Zepplin guitarist Jimmy Page on the historic U.S. ARMS tour, including Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck, that led to forming the Firm with Page. Both Firm world tours were top grossing tours. “The Firm” and Mean Business”, the group’s two albums, also enjoyed international success producing the hits “Radioactive”, “Satisfaction Guaranteed” and “All The King’s Horses”.
Paul Rodgers first shot up the international radio charts and unto the music scene with his rock anthem “All Right Now” with Free. “All Right Now” hit #1 in over 20 territories and was recognized by ASCAO for garnering one million plus radio plays in the U.S. alone. At the time, Free and Led Zeppelin were the biggest grossing British acts. Free release four top five albums and were the leaders of the British blues rock invasion. Their unusual combination of blues, ballads and rock won them worldwide praise and an international following that continues today.
Fri Feb 3
Calum Hughes Collective – The Minstrel Cafe
Damian Brennan – Vintner’s Poolside Grill
Trickster in the Machine – DJ Party – KCT Blackbox Theatre
Young ‘Uns – The Blue Gator
Devon Coyote / Ari Neufeld – Doc Willoughby’s Downtown Pub
Cheeky Monkeys – Dakoda’s Sports Bar & Grill
Donovan Sweet – Pheasant & Quail Pub
Sat Feb 4
In Medias Res – Streaming Cafe
Damian Brennan – Vintner’s Poolside Grill
SHERMAN DOUCETTE BLUES DUET – The Minstrel Cafe
Young ‘Uns – The Blue Gator
One Bad Son w/ Malibu Knights – Doc Willoughby’s Downtown Pub
Jan. 20 @ 7pm
Streaming Cafe
Free
Corey Doak
Joshua Smith
Jordan Matchett
Glen Koide
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