Salmon Arm Roots & Blues Festival
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The 25th Annual Roots&Blues Festival will commence on August 17-20, 2017. Go to www.rootsandblues.ca to find out more about this wonderful event. The Festival features a profusion of roots, blues, folk, dance, and world music on five outdoor stages. Also featured: Beer gardens with stage views, Global Food Village, Artisan Market, Workshops, Family Fun Zone (kids 12 and under free), and pre-registered camping starting Thursday, August 17, 2017 adjacent to the Festival grounds. The Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival has become one of the best festivals in Western Canada. Come and experience the beautiful BC interior and make the festival one of your stops - you'll have the time of your life!
Visit our website: http://www.rootsandblues.ca
Email us at: info@rootsandblues.ca
Phone Number: 1-250-833-4096
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K'Naan on the TD Main Stage in 2010! #TBT #throwbackthursday
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Update: Concert show time moved from 2pm to 7pm and the doors open at 6pm. Read below for more information.
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View from the Beer Garden in 2003. For the 25th beer will be supplied by Red Truck Beer, BC Brew Co., Red Collar Brewing, Labatt's, Sleeman Beer, Barley Station Brew Pub and Crannóg Ales #TBT #ROOTSANDBLUES #ExploreShuswap #explorebc
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Salmon Arm Roots and Blues is pleased to announce the confirmation of five more international artists joining their line-up for the summer of 2017. The Festival is continuing to attract musicians from all over the world; not only to perform but to participate in our hands-on workshops. We know you will be as excited about this latest round of award-winning performers as we are. Internationally known and choosing to spend time this summer in Salmon Arm! The latest editions to the Salmon Arm Roots & Blues Festival line-up include: Alex Cuba: This Grammy and Juno-award winner and his dynamic band will be heating up the festival site and playing our main stage and workshops for the final two days. Cuba has lived in B.C. since emigrating from Cuba in 1999. This long-time resident of Smithers has earned a world-wide reputation as a soulful singer who fuses magnetic and melodic hooks with pulsating rhythms, all injected into masterfully sculpted live performances. Last month Cuba released a new single with the songs" Todas Las Cabezas Están Locas" and "Dans La Folie De L'Amour." Alex took home the award for Best New Artist at the 2010 Latin Grammy Awards, and followed that honour by being nominated for Best Latin Pop Album at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards. In 2011 Alex took home a BMI Latin Award for his songwriting on Nelly Furtado's #1 Spanish hit "Manos Al Aire". The singer-songwriter-guitarist and his band will be part of the Roots & Blues Sunday night main stage line-up that will be an all-Canadian affair, celebrating a vast array of musical sounds that reflect our cultural diversity. Talking Dreads: Hardcore Reggae fans will witness the Canadian performance debut of Talking Dreads this summer. This group is the brainchild of Head Dread, Mystic Bowie, a Jamaican artist who sang with, and formed a strong musical bond, with the founding members of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club. In addition to the groove-laden retakes of Talking Heads' classics, Talking Dread's debut recording also includes two timeless pop bonuses: "Piece of My Heart", so often attributed to Janis Joplin, and "Shakedown Street", a song near and dear to the Deadhead nation. "If audiences have even a fraction of the fun listening to this as we have making it, we'll return to the studio to skank-ify more great songs in the near future," says Bowie. Asani: Debbie Houle, Sarah Pocklington, and Sherryl Sewepagaham make up this Aboriginal women's trio and they will be performing stand-alone concerts and workshop shows at the Festival. This circle of First Nations and Metis women have performed across the continent, including Carnegie Hall in New York City, The Kennedy Centre in Washington and Calgary's Saddledome. These women have performed for the Dalai Lama, Queen Elizabeth, and at the 2010 Olympics. Their debut CD "Rattle and Drum" was nominated for eleven music awards and received the Canadian Aboriginal Music Award for Best Female Traditional Cultural Roots Album. Asani's sophomore release "Listen" received a 2010 Canadian Folk Music Award and an Indian Summer Music Award. Andy Hillhouse: The Roots & Blues Festival's Celtic component will continue to grow this year with the addition of one of Canada's finest Celtic guitarists. Andy Hillhouse spent much of his adult life as a musician in the fields of folk and traditional music, and now divides his time between performance and scholarly pursuits in traditional world music. Andy's entrance into professional folk music began with the creation of his own group "Mad Pudding", who released four CD's and performed across 2 continents. Now as a song interpreter and specialist on Celtic rhythm guitar, he plays with several of Canada's most respected acoustic musicians including Pierre Schryer and The McDades, with whom he won a JUNO award in 2006. Andy is also the artistic director of the Harrison Festival of the Arts, and he will be releasing a new album this summer. Altameda: This young alternative country band from Edmonton, Alberta heads to the UK next month to play a circuit of major international festivals - and will then make their way back to Canada to play the Roots and Blues Festival this summer. This quartet, formed out of a recording session for singer-songwriter Troy Snaterse, quickly became a group on a mission to create something new. Despite planting roots in various genres, they felt compelled to blend their individual styles with the Canadiana sound that shaped their music careers. During the sessions for the group's debut LP, Dirty Rain, it was clear that the band felt a chemistry that only develops through shared experiences. Dirty Rain quickly made it to the number one spot on Alberta's popular public broadcasting network CKUA. "Altameda's 'Dirty Rain' is the perfect summer soundtrack," says Exclaim! magazine. The line-up for the 25th Salmon Arm Roots & Blues Festival continues to expand, and fans of sounds from around the globe and various genres will not be disappointed. Our silver anniversary is shaping up to be one of our most memorable - so be sure to get your tickets now. We are looking forward to welcoming festival-goers for another summer of musical magic. For complete and additional information on Salmon Arm Roots & Blues call 250-833-4096 or visit www.rootsandblues.ca #exploreshuswap #explorebc #rootsandblues
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Happy volunteers hanging out at the 2003 ROOTSANDBLUES Festival. #ThrowbackThursday #TBT #ROOTSANDBLUES #ExploreShuswap #explorebc
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Keepin' Time playing the CBC Blues Stage back in 2005 #ThrowbackThursday #TBT #ROOTSANDBLUES #ExploreShuswap #explorebc #CBC
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Salmon Arm Roots and Blues is pleased to announce that country and bluegrass music legend Ricky Skaggs and his extraordinary band Kentucky Thunder will be headlining our main stage on Friday August 18 at the Salmon Arm Fair Grounds. A winner of 14 Grammy Awards, Skaggs has had such an impact on Americana music that it is hard to know where to begin when talking about his almost a half century of performing, touring and recording. By the time he was in his late teens Skaggs’s abilities in the world of bluegrass were being showcased with J.D. Crowe and the New South, and it wasn’t long before he was invited to become a member of Emmylou Harris’s Hot Band in the late seventies. By the early eighties, Skaggs had landed a major label deal, served up his first number one country single “Waitin’ For The Sun To Shine” and by 1982 became the youngest artist to be inducted into the Grand Ole Opry. In a blink the singer and multi-instrumentalist wizard had put together a string of 12 number one hits along with eight Country Music Association Awards. His hits included “You May See Me Walkin’,” “ Highway 40 Blues,” “Don’t Get Above Your Raising,” “Crying My Heart Out Over You,” “Heartbroke,” and “I Wouldn’t Change You If I Could.“ By the end of the century Skaggs had decided to fly his own label up the flagpole, and for the last twenty years the guitarist and mandolinist has operated and recorded for Skaggs Family Records. The Kentucky native also returned to his bluegrass roots at the same time and put together a phenomenal band of brilliant players and pickers, Kentucky Thunder. The group won eight out of nine Instrumental Group of the Year awards from the International Bluegrass Music Association between ’98 and 2006.Skaggs and his ensemble also captured 8 Grammy Awards between ’98 and ’08. Because he has been such a force for so long, Skaggs was honored with the Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award by the Academy of Country Music in 2012, while the Americana Music Association awarded him a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015. As a live performer, Skaggs presents a masters’ class on how to engage an audience on all levels, and the breadth and depth of his musical skill and roots allow him to headline bluegrass, country, Americana, and folk festivals. Along with Alison Krauss, Skaggs can be credited with bringing more fans to bluegrass music than anyone else in the past 25 years, and in the past few years he has also recorded with Bruce Hornsby and toured extensively with Ry Cooder. Roots and Blues artistic director Peter North says of the Skaggs booking, “that you snap up an artist like Skaggs any time the opportunity comes your way. There are precious few artists in Americana music that have enjoyed the run that he has. . . . This booking continues the vein we started to mine at Roots and Blues with Ian Tyson in 2014 and then Marty Stuart and Russell deCarle of Prairie Oyster in 2015, and Steve Earle and Shawn Colvin last summer. This is country music with soul, and he and Kentucky Thunder are still at the top of their game.” In addition to closing main stage on Friday August 18, Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder will also be participating in an afternoon workshop that promises to create a lot of sparks. Inquiries regarding the 25th Anniversary edition of Salmon Arm ROOTSANDBLUES Festival can be made by contacting the ROOTSANDBLUES office at 250-833-4096 and ticket information is online at www.rootsandblues.ca #explorebc #rootsandblues
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Packed crowd at the Barn Stage in 2004 #ThrowbackThursday #TBT
Booker T. Jones - A Journey Through Soul
Great CKUA Radio Network Interview with Booker T Jones: https://soundcloud.com/ckuaradio/booker-t-jones-a-journey-through-soul
Destination British Columbia
If you're unsure about travelling to BC this year watch this video... #explorebc #rootsandblues
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