Tickets are now on sale for the Shuswap Trail Alliance's (STA) Spring Celebration, which will be headlined by a funky favourite.
For this year's BC Trails Day event, the STA is bringing the noise with ROOTSandBLUES favourites, Vancouver-based Five Alarm Funk, described in a media release as "Canada's premiere sonic and visual assault."
"With 20 years' experience in high voltage Funk infusion, FAF has carved a new path to live entertainment," the release said of the JUNO nominees who have also won three Western Canadian Music Awards. "The engagement, the hilarity, the precision and execution have heralded these manic Funk Bots with eight studio albums... and a rap sheet of positive reviews."
The band has toured premiere festivals around the world, from Canada and the U.S. all the way to Taiwan and even the United Nations headquarters in Mali, Africa and now bringing this "fun, energized, atomic economic sonic and visual ritual to your doorstep."
The Shades, formerly 6 Shades of Grey, will open the show as they celebrate their ninth anniversary and introduce a new band member. Multi-faceted, they play hits from the '50s up to the present in a variety of genres, from country and blues to classic rock and contemporary, using diverse instruments from a 3-peice horn section to a mandolin.
Adding to the Celebration atmosphere will be a beverage garden of local drinks from the Barley Station, Shuswap Cider Co. and Sunnybrae Winery, with food trucks that include the Yukon Smash, Tsilhqot'in BBQ and the Tater Shack.
The Spring Celebration will take place at the South Canoe Trailhead on June 7, BC Trails Day, with doors open at 4 p.m., The Shades on stage 4:30-5:30 p.m. and Five Alarm Funk's first set starting at 6 p.m. with the event ending at 8 p.m. Tickets can be purchased through the link available at shuswaptrails.com, with an early bird discount available.
The event celebrates local trails and also show's the STA's appreciation of local stakeholders.
"The collaboration between governments, organizations and multiple user groups is something to commemorate and the Shuswap Trail Alliance would like the opportunity to celebrate the trails with the people who make them possible," the release added.
