Canada Day Celebrations

2024

Come join us in Charles Hoey Memorial Park

to celebrate Canada’s 157th birthday

diversity/education/awareness

shared cake at 4pm

Noon   Mbira Spirit - becoming a tradition to have them start Canada Day for the community with an uplifting approach to country styled danceable music

1pm      Kelly Roxanne Girvan   school teacher by day and night, she also enjoys her own musical journey and continues to pen some fine songs for us to hear 

2pm     Cara McCandless – calling the Cowichan Valley home, she is an awesome songwriter and a very powerful singer

3pm      Tropic Mayhem – serving up some good old classic rock’n’roll with a beachy feeling, always in demand for private functions, they make sure all in attendance have a good time 

4pm      Terry Wicks and friends  a singer/songwriter/producer/recording engineer he has a penchant for the blues as he will show us tonite with some originals and a few covers joined by some musical friends

4:20pm     Canada Day Cake - cutting and sharing– sponsored by Canadian Super Store

5pm     Nicholas Campbell with Rob Foreman  -from Peterbourough Ont. area, roots country duo with a rockabilly feel – the real deal (also part of the HiLo Players)

6pm     Jsa Jsa and the Cariboo Kid   Jsa Jsa (Jeanne Tolmie) and the Cariboo Kid (Daniel Lapp) sing old country and folk songs mostly from British Columbia. There is some yodelling, polkas, swing and honky tonk and always some fiddling to round out the show.                          

7pm     Pat Temple and the HiLo Players  tonite as a 4 piece, Pat brings on his take of hillbilly jazz to the festival that is liable to get your toes a tappin and maybe even a bit of dancin’ time on your part once again?

 Then we move to the City Square Stage

8:15pm    Ryan McMahon Trio    ‘he has carved out an almost 20-year career as an independent artist in Canada’s vibrant music scene, a genre fence sitter, hanging out on the edges of country just enough  to say he isn’t, Ryan is both a whisper and a scream’