If you like country music, this is the perfect week for you with a couple of excellent country and roots acts coming through Lethbridge.
For real, authentic cowboy music, check out a special show at the Lethbridge Folk Club Wolf’s Den, March 1 with New Mexico based musician/ college professor/ actor and cowboy Steve Cormier, who returns to Canada for the first time in almost 30 years. He will be playing with Peter Paul Van Camp.
The other big country show is Regina musician Blake Bergland who will be bringing his band plus Manitoba musician Quinton Blair to the Slice, Feb. 26.
The Owl Acoustic Lounge also has some excellent roots acts as they welcome back Kampukasing born musician Al Lukas on Feb. 28. The night before, the Owl Acoustic Lounge welcomes Warspite, Alberta musician Jake Ian to the stage.
You can laugh out February with Toronto based, Cape Breton raised comedian Ron James who performs the at the Yates Theatre, Feb. 28. The show begins at 8 p.m. Tickets are $55.
If you are in the mood for some blues, local blues rockers Paul Kype and Texas Flood return to the Slice, Feb. 28
But March will truly and completely rock with a couple great punk shows lined up for March 4 (Calgary's Citizen Rage at Inferno) and March 6 (The Real McKenzies and the Isotopes at Bo Diddly’s)
But the Slice is first out the gate with a mid week show from the Ruby Plumes and Winnipeg “Space freaks” Moon Tan on Monday, March 2. There is five dollar cover for that show.
Casino Lethbridge also rocks in March with the dual bagpipe powered Celtic rock band the Mudmen, Feb. 28. They feature DC Top, a variety act on Feb. 27 who don’t have anything to do with ZZ Top or AC DC.
The other big thing happening this week, mostly at Club Didi is Pretty Witty and Gay.
The annual event opened on Feb. 21 and carries on through to Feb. 28 with the Pretty, Witty and Gay cabaret at the Stendale Bennett Theatre, The variety show begins at 8 m. Tickets are $20. Pretty witty and Gay also features an original opera “ Drinks with maria t Club Didi featuring Vancouver performer Maria Toilette. It begins at 10 p.m. There is a $10 cover. Throughout the week, Liam Monaghan’s play “How To Leave” runs Feb. 24-27 at 8 p.m. at Club Didi. It features Graham Mothersill and Jay Whitehead.
There is also a big Christian rock concert at the Victory Church on Feb. 28.
Four of the biggest Christian rock bands in the United States will be coming to Lethbridge. Disciple, Seventh Day Slumber, Nine Lashes and Decyfer play the City Rockfest Tour at Victory Church beginning at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $36.75 VIP and $18.48 general.
