Events & Ticketing Info

MAR 8 – Krystle Dos Santos: ‘Motown Get Down’

We were fortunate to book Kystle Dos Santos and her Motown Get Down Show on March 8th. She is a Western Canadian Music Award winning soul, jazz and R&B singer based out of Vancouver, Canada. With an extraordinary voice that is commanding, powerful and rich with talent, her music, inspired by classic and neo-soul combined with smooth R&B elements, is executed brilliantly; it’s simultaneously elegant, bold and sensual. She is accompanied by her five-piece band and their groovy R&B sounds are sure keep the dance floor busy with music from The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight & the Pips and more! In April, Western Canada Theatre is presenting six of these shows in Kamloops and they are already SOLD OUT!!

Licensed | 19+
 
Doors Open at 7:00 pm | Concert at 7:30 pm
 
Tickets $42 General Admission 

Presented by Celebrate Shuswap Society

Mar 11 – Sue Foley ‘One Guitar Woman’

The Salmon Arm Folk Music Society is proud to present Sue Foley—One Guitar Woman on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, at Song Sparrow Hall. Foley’s tour, named after her new album, will give audiences the chance to hear Foley’s self-taught interpretations of Charo’s La Malagueña on flamenco guitar, Niccolò Paganini’s Romance in A Minor, and Lydia Mendoza’s Mal Hombre. Foley’s ingenuity shines in original compositions like Maybelle’s Guitar, where the Carter scratch underscores the towering
influence of the Carter family’s music.

Foley’s international attention and accolades include the 2024 Blues with a Feeling/Lifetime Achievement award at the Maple Blues Awards, the 2024 Blues Music Award for Best Traditional Blues Female (her fourth consecutive win), a Juno Award, multiple Austin Music Awards, Blues Music Awards, and Trophées de Blues de France.

Licensed | All Ages
 
Doors Open at 6:30 pm | Concert at 7:30 pm
 
Tickets $34.50 – $75 General Admission

Presented by Salmon Arm Folk Music Society

APR 3 – Blue Moon Marquee

A.W. Cardinal (vocals/guitar) and Jasmine Colette a.k.a. Badlands Jass (vocals/bass/drums) have played for a vast gamut of crowds at jazz clubs, Lindy Hop dance halls, folk venues, blues haunts, hospitals, prisons, markets, motorcycle joints, dive bars and prestigious festival stages. We are stoked to announce that Blue Moon Marquee will soon be adding the wonderful Song Sparrow Hall to their list of played stages with an early Spring Concert on Thursday, April 03.

This Spring concert will feature Blue Moon Marquee as a 4 piece ground bringing pianist Darcy Philips and saxophone player Alison Young on the stage to join the original duo of A.W. Cardinal (vocals/guitar and Badlands Jass (vocals/bass/drums).

The JUNO Award-winning group recently performed at the 2024 Tkaronto Music Festival at TD Music Hall in Toronto on the heels of the release of their highly anticipated fifth album, Scream, Holler & Howl. The album was co-produced by Duke Robillard, a Grammy Award-winning guitar player and producer.

Licensed | All Ages
 
Doors Open at 6:30 pm | Concert at 7:00pm
 
Tickets $29.50 – $34.50 General Admission
Limited Reserved Seating Available

Presented by Salmon Arm Folk Music Society and Dancor Electric

APR 18 – Wesli

Juno Award and CFMA Winning Haitian-Canadian Wesli will be bringing his infectious world music to Song Sparrow Hall with a full band high energy concert!

Wesli’s musical journey has gone from stringing up an oil can with nylon fishing line to winning a Juno for World Music Album of the Year.

Born Wesley Louissaint in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, he has grown into his role as a prolific songwriter, guitarist and producer. Uniting a large cross section of Montreal talent, his music links Haitian voudou and rara with roots, Afrobeat, and hip-hop. Guest spots on his albums include the likes of Tiken Jah FakolyPaul Cargnello, and Malika Tirolien. He has toured under the GlobalFest banner with the Caribbean All Stars.

Since being crowned the Revelation Radio-Canada for 2009–2010, Wesli has gone on to win the Babel Med Music Prize (2010), SOCAN’s Hagood Hardy Award (2016), an award from the Académie Charles CROS (2019), a Juno for World Music (2019), a Félix for Album of the Year in World Music (2019), and a CFMA for World Solo Artist of the Year (2020). He has toured across North America, Haiti, Colombia, Brazil, and Europe, and participated in WOMEX, Mundial Montréal and Cape Verde’s Atlantic Music Expo.

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Licensed | All Ages
 
Doors Open at 6:30 pm | Concert at 7:30pm
 
Tickets $35.00 General Admission

Presented by Song Sparrow Presents

APR 26 – Ethan Askey & The Elevators: Boogie Blues.

Our series concludes on April 26th with funky, electric boogie blues by rocky Mountain singer-songwriter Ethan Askey and his band, The Elevators. Having had the opportunity to share the stage with these incredible blues musicians, and before them with British bluesman John Mayall and string-bending legend Amos Garrett, Ethan has a strong foundation in real deal blues. He will be playing songs from his debut album, Walk When You Wanna Run, that offers a fresh take on the funky urban electric blues played by one his mentors, Junior Wells. Not only is his music great to dance to, he also provides compelling, original stories and sounds that are expressed in many colourful ways.

Licensed | 19+
 
Doors Open at 7:00 pm | Concert at 7:30 pm
 
Tickets $37 General Admission 

Presented by Celebrate Shuswap Society

MAY 3 – Pharis and Jason Romero

Pharis and Jason Romero have been steadily building a loyal following in the folk world in recent years, thanks to a thoughtful, refreshing approach to traditional songs alongside Pharis’s intelligent, articulate, emotionally poignant songwriting. Their last two albums—”Bet on Love” (2020) and “Sweet Old Religion” (2018)—were heavy on new compositions that the pair sought to add to the folk canon. On their newest album, “Tell ‘Em You Were Gold” (released on Smithsonian Folkways), the husband and wife duo from Horsefly, BC, deliver songs that are equal parts traditional and original. The record was made in their barn and the warmth of its wood, the sense of community, and the strong sense of family stretch across it.

They are Four-time Juno award winners and seven-time Canadian Folk Music Award recipients. They sing how they live, and these two people live 24-7 together: raising kids, building banjos, with music a constant lifelong thread.

Licensed | All Ages
 
Doors Open at 6:30 pm | Concert at 7:30pm
 
Tickets $34.50 – $38.00 General Admission
Limited Reserved Seating Available

”masters of their arena at work and play… further reinforcing their position within the upper echelons of the global folk community.” Folk Radio UK

“hypnotic and bewitching music… solid gold Americana with a capital A.” Lonesome Highway

Presented by Song Sparrow Presents

May 24 – Colin Linden

Colin Linden’s tale is the stuff of legend, the kind told in the Coen brothers’ O Brother Where Art Thou or Inside Llewyn Davis, both of which featured his guitar playing on the soundtracks. That film would begin with an 11-year-old meeting his musical idol Howlin’ Wolf at a matinee show in his native Toronto, accompanied by his mom, who took a picture of the two during a nearly two-hour long conversation before the gig, the legendary bluesman idling over coffee and cigarettes.

“I’m an old man now, and I won’t be around much longer,” Wolf told him. “It’s up to you to carry it on.”

Linden still carries that frayed photograph in his wallet, along with a Sears 5/8” socket wrench in his pocket to play slide guitar. He has taken Wolf’s plea seriously, performing since he was 12 years old, leaving home as a teenager to travel the south at the invitation of Mississippi Sheiks delta blues guitarist Sam Chatmon which took him to Detroit, Chicago, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Memphis and Hollandale, Mississippi, meeting and visiting the sites of his heroes – Brownie McGhee, Muddy Waters, Sippie Wallace, Tampa Red, Blind John Davis, the Rev. Robert Wilkins, Sleepy John Estes and Son House, visiting the landmarks and juke joints, many of which he’s played in during the course of a 45-year career producing and playing blues and roots music.

As a singer/guitarist, he’s accompanied everyone from Bruce Cockburn (as his producer and touring musician) to Bob Dylan, Greg Allman, Rihannon Giddens, Pistol Annies, John Prine and more.

“Roots music and blues do speak to a lot of people right now,” acknowledges Linden. “Much of the healing and release you get from listening to this music, the power and form of expression, has shown itself to be so vital in these times. It feels timeless because it’s such a raw nerve.”

Licensed | All Ages
 
Doors Open at 7:00 pm | Concert at 8:00pm
 
Tickets $34.50 – $39.50 General Admission
Limited Reserved Seating Available

Presented by Salmon Arm Folk Music Society

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