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*News entertainment info in the Vernon Morning Star – Rare Vibe: Story in the making
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Special to The Morning StarSo when was the last time you went to Vancouver’s Yale Hotel? Well if you’re a boomer and you weren’t going to the Commodore to dance to the local house band or to a Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd concert, then you might have been sitting beside me at The Yale groovin’ to the likes of Long John Baldry or Jim Byrnes.
You might have found yourself chillin’ with some pretty interesting people, but there was a sense of safety, and even though we might not have known it then, music was definitely history in the making.
Not much has changed in the past 30 or 40 years –– The Yale is still a great place to go. It has good service. The crowd is a motley mix of young to old, a bit weathered, maybe too much bling, but even three-piece suits can feel like it’s home, skeleton belt buckles can still be found under a few bellies, and there’s a few with sensible shoes.
A lot of tales have come and gone in the last three-to-four decades, but within those historical walls are so many stories and so many music legends who have come and gone.
Our good luck brought us to The Yale one Sunday afternoon when we walked into an explosion of people, laughing and dancing, so I stretched my neck through the crowd to find a band on stage with a blues groove like nothing I’d heard for a very long while. They were completely new and completely different and yet stayed true to “da blues.”
So who was the band?
“Brickhouse,” someone said with pride. “They’re Canadian, eh.”
From my perspective, they were a really great, very tight band who got me up shaking my bootie with the best of them.
We at the Rarearth Music Fest are so proud to say that together with our amazing mix of all the musical guests we’ve invited to our beautiful Silver Star Mountain, Brickhouse will headline on Saturday, July 23.
They are just one of the bands that will bring with them the heart and soul of not only their beloved genre, but histories from around the world that make each band so unique unto themselves.
Our pride and joy, Jodi Pederson will perform her folk and rock pop with feeling. Kath and The Tomkats have prepared a mix of slow blues to rockin’ classics. Skyla J and The Vibes will perform with a bit of soul, jazz and a funk groove as well as the Okanagan’s favourite blues man, Poppa Dawg.
Vernon’s Redfish, with their intoxicating blend of soulful, hard-edged rock, will hit the stage before Nelson’s Wassabi Duo, with special guest percussionist/drummer Bobby Bovenzi, playing pop, rock, hip-hop, roots, reggae, funk and everything in between.
There will be some funk and some soul with Space Monkey, and Steve Kozak’s rockin’ west coast all-stars will prepare the stage for two-time Juno Award winner Greg Sczebel.
Las Vegas entertainer David “The Saxman” Brown, whose unique overblow technique on the sax promises to get you up dancing and ready for the Aussies, the Mason Rack Band whose sound will leave you in awe of a voice that takes you down into the Mississippi bayou.
The Sunday, July 24 headliner, Delhi to Dublin, will provide a unique blend of break-beat, Celtic and electronics where India meets Ireland with upbeat, impossible to sit down music.
But that’s not all. There’s a full-on jam band at The Saloon as well as an acoustic jam at the Bulldog pub after the festival on the Saturday night.
Rarearth promises you memory making history at the Silver Star Mountain Resort from the moment you arrive to the moment you say good-bye to us.
Tickets are available at Ticket Seller, 250-549-SHOW (7569), the Bean Scene, and online at http://www.rarearthmusic.com. For more information call 250-938-2231.
–– Kath Raeber is the founder and artistic director of the Rarearth Music Festival.
via bclocalnews.com
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As a Not-For-Profit Society, we, the North Okanagan Music Festival Society, will follow a mandate to “maintain, and operate festivals as a means to develop community spirit”, also, we will “provide opportunities for the artistic development of local talent and provide mentorship programs and workshops for youth”.
With that said, we are pleased that the 4th Annual Rarearth Music Fest will be hosted at the ‘beautiful’ Silver Star Mountain Resort, in Vernon, BC and we are looking for your financial support to create an event like non-other where we, as hosts, invite the world to a two-day family, fun-filled, musical extravaganza… when the “mountain meets the music”.
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Hmm.. what to do, what to do.. to take the plunge for the Rarearth Music Fest in changing the venue and the date — pretty risky business when you’re trying to establish ‘your’ weekend in the massive festival arena.
Let’s take a walk down Rarearth memory lane and see how we got here.
In 2008, in a flurry of ideas –– all day, all night that replaced peaceful dreams –– was the nagging that something really important could happen here. It was also fewer venues, support for local artists, the plastics nightmare after Hurricane Wilma , the once-a-year children’s musical, and an economic kick in the pants for our little town that fueled us.
We had questions.
How do we make us a destination and keep tourist dollars here? And how is it, and who was it, who made me the one to find a way to put this altogether?
And what on earth were they thinking?
Experience told me to listen… and voila!
So there “it” was and in three months a festival was born at the Kin Race Track site in our own sweet town. And even though we just about froze to death, we rocked the stage with the likes of Rita Chiarelli, Carlos del Junco, Jack Sempel, David “the Saxman” Brown, Judy Rose, Salmon Armenians, The Tomkats, and featured our first kidz act, Sistas Blue.
With every emotion running high, we smiled a lot that year. And even though Vernon hadn’t quite found us yet, we did a fantastic job of putting on our first festival. The volunteers and leaders, well, they were the real stars.
The Terrace Mountain fire threatened to cancel us in 2009, but again we rocked, incorporating our new initiative, Stage Right, for kidz who competed in Our Kids Have Talent (OKHT), sponsored by 107.5 Kiss FM. Now that was a success story!
We filled the Main Stage with artists such as Jimmy Bowskill, Dawn Tyler Watson, Kal David, Alfie Zappacosta and five-time Grammy Award winner Mr. Buddy Guy.
That was the year that our festival was nominated for Best New Business, Best Marketer, Best Community Supporter, and Best Green Business through the Greater Vernon Chamber of Commerce Business Excellence Awards.
Slammed with a million ideas for 2010, changing it all up became inevitable. After all, change is good, right?
Rarearth became a three-day festival with a nice mix of jazz, rockin’ blues, pop, country folk, funk, and everything in between, creating a world feel, and attracting a dynamic and diverse audience.
Friday night opened with The Matt Harwood-Jones Band (top 10 for OKHT), Sherman “Tank” Doucette and Mr. Wes Mackey. Saturday, the dancin’ slippers came out as we featured Andrew Allen, Barney Bentall , David Gogo, Jim Byrnes, The Sojourners, Rita Chiarelli, and Maria Muldaur , plus 75 kidz on Stage Right. We all got the shivers on Sunday with gospel from Jon Buller and the Black Pioneer Heritage Singers.
“How can we ever top this?” we asked.
Well, how about moving the venue and the date?!
We are beyond thrilled that the beautiful Silver Star Mountain Resort will host the Rarearth Music Fest for 2011.
Silver Star Mountain is the “jewel” that we Vernonites are all proud to call ours, so it doesn’t get much better when you marry the two and create a “mountain-meets-the-music” theme to accomplish everything we set out to do in the first place.
This year’s festival, July 23 and 24, features two days of non-stop music with Brickhouse, Jodi Pederson, Greg Sczebel , Redfish, Poppa Dawg, Wassabi Duo, Steve Kozak, Mason Rack, David “the Saxman” Brown, Kath and The Tomkats, and the spectacular Delhi to Dublin, plus kidz from OKHT!
Also tons of family activities will create a weekend for family and friends for a fun-filled “stay-cation” only 20 minutes from your own backyard.
See Rarearth Music Fest.com for ticket details or call 250-938-2231.
–– Kath Raeber is the founder and artistic director of the Rarearth Music Fest, which is run by the not-for-profit North Okanagan Music Festival Society.
–This article was published in the Vernon Morning Star newspaper on June 29, 2011
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