Live music is making its way back to our region, and Moose Fest gets underway this weekend in Bellevue for its debut offering.
MooseFest will be on Aug. 7, doors will open at 6:30 p.m.
(Submitted picture/Mark Poppen)There will be plenty of different genres on offer as three different Canadian bands will be featured that night.
The Steadies are a high-energy band based out of Saskatoon who mix pop-rock with other sounds like reggae, creating an ‘island-rock’. League of Wolves will also be playing that night, another group based out of Saskatoon, and they are a hard-hitting rock group. Lastly, Seven Mile Sun will also take to the stage in Bellevue. They have an alt-rock sound and originate from Harris, Saskatchewan.
League of Wolves. (Submitted picture/Mark Poppen)Organizers of the event, Mark Poppen and Joel Gaudet say it will be a fun night and will be safe as well as they will be following health protocols.
Drive-in gigs
There will be more drive-in concerts this year at the EA Rawlinson Centre in Prince Albert.
“They have been going great,” Cara Stelmaschuk from the centre said. “The audiences have really been enjoying them. We are seeing some people who are coming to all of them, and we are also getting a really good crowd of people who like one particular genre and that is the one drive-in they come to.
The centre will host Allyson Reigh on Aug.18 and will finish off the drive-in series with a show from W3APONS on Sept. 1.
Festival at Big River
One other festival during the summer months will be the ninth Country at the creek music festival which will be held from August 27-28 at the Ladder Valley Community Hall Grounds about 13 kilometres southeast of Big River.
Jeanette Wicinski-Dunn, organizer of the event said the names on the line-up are all Saskatchewan artists and some have played at the festival in the past.
“I call them local Saskatchewan entertainment,” Wicinski-Dunn said. “Tickets have been really selling well, I think people are really looking forward to getting back into live music and camping with their friends and family.”
Some of the features at the festival include Rod Gjerde, Munro and Patrick, Trick Ryder, and River’s Edge among many others.
River’s Edge. (countryatthecreek.ca)The event will be smaller this year due to COVID restrictions. They do not have online sales for tickets this year, instead Jeanette is asking that anyone who is looking to purchase tickets to call her number, where she will then e-mail the tickets out.
Editor’s note: this story has been amended from the original which appeared on paNOW last month.
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