It is great to see things opening up again, as the local music scene and venues dip their toes into a post-Covid world.
Start the week early with laughter.
Faris Hytiaa hosts Good Times weekly comedy open mic tonight, Tuesday. Mike Dambra plays four shows this weekend.
His
last show had to be postponed until October, So Dambra will be
providing the laughter at Good Times at 7 P.m. and 9:30 p.m. both Friday
and Saturday night. Tickets are $20
Monthly comedy mics return to
the Owl Acoustic Lounge this week too, with the laughs beginning
inside beginning at 8 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 30.
New West Theatre as well as country star Gord Bamford enjoyed some success with drive in concerts this summer.
This
week, October opens with country stars George Canyon and Aaron
Pritchett doing two drive in concerts at the Enmax Centre at 7 p.m. and
9 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 1. Tickets are $115 per vehicle; $135
including a concession package; $140 for VIP admission and $160 for
VIP and concession.
Devin Gergel hosts the Slice’s Thursday night open mic.
Honker’s Pub features Shallow Lilac aka TJ
Waltho and Keenan Pezderic playing jazz music from 7-11 p.m. Admission
is $10 with 20 per cent going to charity. Pritchett has just released a
new single “Never Seen Me Like This.”
Paul Kype hosts the afternoon jam at Honker’s Pub, Oct. 3 from 4-8 p.m.
If
you missed Tyler Alllen and the Red Hot hayseeds, a couple of weeks
ago, catch them again, Oct. 3 at the Slice. Boots and the Hoots are also playing, but as Boots cut his thumb, he has invited Peter and the Wolves’ Howlin’ Pete Cormier to play lead guitar.
The SLice has started afternoon open mics from 4-7 p.m., The Red hot Hayseeds and Boots and the Hoots will start around 9 p.m. Admission is $10.
Scott Davidson and Super Tonic are on the Slice stage, Oct 2.
The Chevelles return to rock Sound Garden on Friday and Saturday. beginning around 8 p.m. Admission is $10.
And
the Hibikaya drummer wind up the season at Nikka Yuko Japanese Gardens
on Sunday, Oct..4 Their performance is included with the nine dollar
admission to the Gardens. They perform at 1 p.m.