Kelowna Okanagan Country Music Festival

03/02/2025

https://youtu.be/f6DGljopfow - Vania and divas of Cuban music live in Cuba

Vania Borges one of the true diva's of Cuban music and her sister are dear friends of mine

03/02/2025

02/23/2025

Arlette Alcock a Metis singer, songwriter who won a Native E Award in Albuqueque, New Mexico. she is a Country Folk artist living in Kelowna. We are awaiting confirmation of her and or her band to be part of Canada Day Indigenous Showcase and the kelowna Okanagan Country Music Festival.

02/23/2025

Arlette’s Alcock is a Metis Country Folk artist here in Kelowna. A singer, songwriter with powerful songs are inspired by her heritage as well as the social, environmental and political climate that affects us all. I am waiting confirmation of her and or her band to be part of both the Canada Day Showcase and the kelowna Okanagan Country Music Festival

02/23/2025

Hawaii! despite what people think, is the true roots of Country Folk Music. Bruce Spencer and other Hawaiians living in Kelowna yet to be confirmed will be featuring some country folk music hits from the paradise island. Bruce is one the left featured here with members of several past award wining honours at Hawaiian Music Awards aka Hoku Hanohano Awards

02/23/2025

Special kudo's to Jason Paul and his band Jet Black Mountain and his talented wife who has great vocals for helping us get the Kelowna Okanagan Music Festival of the ground this summer.

02/23/2025

Jodie B is a Cree Metis. The Owner and a Producer at Frequency Sounds 520 Recording Studios in Kelowna. She is a very telented multi-instruementalist, singer, songwriter. Jodie is joining us to help get the Inaugural Kelowna Okanagan Country Music Festival of the ground July 5th. And will also be a featured guest performer at this years Canada Day Celebration July 1st as part of the hour and a half Indigenous Contemporary Music Showcase as the opening act for the Headliner.

02/14/2025

Headliner: Jarred Lee Country Rock Artist has just confirmed he wants to be part of getting the Kelowna Okanagan Music Festival of the ground.

Jarrid Lee a plains Cree is a true cultural ambassador, Jarrid's music is an evocative blend of authentic country rock, rooted in both his Indigenous heritage and his unwavering love for hockey, his country, and his community.

His song "It's Time" about residential Schools was featured in presentations to the United Nations.

Topping singles like "Up on Stage" and "That's How You Country," Jarrid Lee's music is as real as it gets. His songs often blaze through the country rock airwaves, reaching as far as Australia and Ireland,

His debut EP, Up on Stage, earned multiple nominations from the Saskatchewan Country Music Association and SaskMusic, topping charts on Sirius XM 165 The Indigiverse and the Canadian Indie Country Countdown.

His second album, It's Time, expanded his international reach with the single "Let's Get Gone" hitting #8 on the Top 40 IMC. Jarrid's latest single, "Too Good To Be True," out November 15, 2024, is the first from his upcoming album Give It All Back. The song will premiere exclusively on LIVE IN LIMBO, a Toronto-based online platform.

02/07/2025

Stage back drop for the Country Festival. Despite the fact of what people think or are taught to believe as true the real roots of country music it all started on the Big Island of Hawaii in 1832. When three Mexican cowboys where brought to Hawaii with guitar in tow and later in the mid 1880's Joseph kekuku invented the Hawaiian lap steel guitar. The rest is History.

02/07/2025

Kelowna Branch of the BC Fiddlers Association. A five piece 4 band with 3 fiddlers will be performing at the Show