There's plenty of live music still in store for 2024 at Salmon Arm's Song Sparrow Hall.
Between Oct. 18 and 20, the concert hall will be the site of this year's Loud and Proud Celebration. Presented by the Salmon Arm Pride Project and hosted by the Salmon Arm Arts Centre, the event will include food trucks, crafts, a pop-up shop and entertainment, including a concert by Queer as Funk and Csetkwe at 7:30 p.m. on Oct 18, a dance party with DJ Slade at 7:30 on Oct. 19, and the Drag Brunch with Ella Lamoureux and drag open mic at 11 a.m. on Oct. 20. For more information, visist salmonarmartscentre.ca.
On Saturday, Oct. 25, the Celebrate Shuswap Society hosts an all-ages dance party at Song Sparrow Hall featuring the band Souls in Rhythm. Doors open at 7 p.m. with showtime at 7:30.
The following Tuesday, Oct. 29, Sound The Alarm: Music/Theatre presents Music of the Night, a concert tour celebrating the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber. The concert will include selections from 10 of Webber's musicals including: Phantom of the Opera, Evita, Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar and Sunset Boulevard. Doors for this all-ages show open at 6:30 p.m. and showtime is at 7:30.
Three concerts are lined up for November, beginning with the sold-out Hawksley Workman show on Nov. 3, presented by the Salmon Arm Folk Music Society. On Saturday, Nov. 9, Theatre Junkie presents Canadian folk/country trio the Good Lovelies, Kerri Ough, Sue Passmore and Caroline Marie Brooks, who will be performing music from their latest Juno-nominated release We Will Never Be the Same. Doors for the all-ages show open at 6:30 p.m., with showtime at 7:30.
On Wednesday night, Nov. 23, Song Sparrow Hall will reverberate with the sounds of Monkey Dragon, a musical collaboration featuring Emmy and Juno nominated composer Adham Shaikh, and soul/reggae warrior Buckman Coe. The band's music is described as a "a live-electronic horn-fuelled space odyssey thru spaghetti western landscapes blending funk, cumbia, dub and psychedelia." For all ages, the doors open at 7 p.m. with showtime at 8.
To wrap up 2024, the Celebrate Shuswap Society is hosting its New Year's Eve Dance Party featuring funk royalty of the B.C. Interior, Majesty.
"They play a wide selection of funk, R&B and even some ska and a few cool originals thrown in for good measure," says Celebrate Shuswap. "From Stevie Wonder to Peter Gabriel, The Blues Brothers, to Madness, this band plays tunes that are guaranteed to get you up out of your seat and up dancing."
Again, an all-ages show, with doors opening at 7 and showtime at 7:30.
Further information on each of the above can be found at songsparrowhall.ca.
