Desert Daze shines
What an awesome festival this year. The weather was fine, the music it did shine and the Organizers delivered one darn great time! Congrats to Steve Rice, Maya Chang and Mavourneen Varcoe-Ryan and all the organizers and volunteers. A full review and more photos will appear in my next article.
Music In The Park ends loud and proud!
Thanks to the boys and girl (Joy, you rawked!) in The Bargain Basement Band who kept us going all night with some great tunes last Wednesday for the last show of the summer. Winding Rivers Arts & Performance Society would like to extend a huge THANK YOU to everyone who participated in and supported this year’s series. A special thanks to Nadine, Andrea, Jessica, Joris for all their hard work and dedication for the benefit of keeping live music alive and well in Ashcroft. Thanks to all the Musicians! See ya next Year! Check out our upcoming Dessert Concert Series for the Winter/Spring 2012. wwww.windingriversarts.ca
First Nations cultural guided hike
On Friday, Sept. 2 there will be a Cultural Interpretaion Guided Hike into the Stein Valley Nlaka’pamux Heritage Park. For more information please call Karen Dunstan at the Lytton First Nation Band Office at (250) 455-2304 ext. 210.
Movie Night in Cache Creek
The Village Of Cache Creek Presents a family movie night featuring the pre release movie “KUNG FU PANDA 2” on Friday, Sept. 9 from 7-8:30 pm at The Cache Creek Community Hall. Doors open at 6:30 pm, Movie starts at 7 pm. Admission at the door. Popcorn and goodies available for purchase at the Concession.
Ashcroft Fall Fair coming up
This year’s Ashcroft Fall Fair will be held on Sept. 11, from 10am – 5pm at Drylands Arena .
This year’s Fair is “Farm to Fork”. With this theme in mind, you can still be thinking about food products or other items that you produce, or crafts that you can create for the Fair. The Fall Fair booklet can be viewed online (www.ashcroftfallfair.net) to find out about the hundreds of submission categories this year.
To kick off the Fair and to get everyone into the mood, Winding Rivers Arts & Performance Society presents a ‘Community Dance’ on Friday, Sept. 9 at the Ashcroft Community Hall featuring Vancouver’s Wichita Trip. Wichita Trip is a five piece roots-rock combo and they play Texas-style Roadhouse Country and Honky-Tonk Rock’n Roll. Coming from diverse backgrounds and influences, they combine to produce rootsy country rock with punk and surf elements. Currently gigging around the better saloons in Vancouver and festival favourites in these parts, they just finished recording their first album and hope to have it for sale at the Fair. Go to www.myspace.com/wichitatrip to hear their music.
Check out posters around town. Tickets are available now in advance at Natures Gifts and The Ashcroft Bakery, and are also available at the door for a slightly increased price – so get your tickets early. There will be a cash bar, sorry, no minors. Doors open at 7:30 pm, show starts at 8:30 pm. For more info: www.windingriversarts.ca
The Sunday (Sept. 11) entertainment lineup promises something for everyone. The Fair Stage runs from 10:30 am to 4 pm. Acts throughout the day include Wichita Trip, The Golden Spike Can-Can Girls, Kamloops Old Time Fiddlers, The Masonettes, Flat Busted and Serge Plotnikoff – who will be performing his self-penned song, ‘Ashcroft On My Mind.’ There will also be some entertainment outside at the animal display and concession areas.
This year’s Ashcroft Fall Fair promises to be bigger and better than ever, packed with all the frolic and merriment you would expect from a hometown event. Organizers encourage you to support your town in some good, old-fashioned fun.
For more information, visit www.ashcroftfallfair.net
Logan Lake Fall Fair & Tea
The 35th Annual Logan Lake Fall Fair & Tea is on Sept. 16-18 from 1–4 pm.
There’s still time to enter your gardening wares for this year’s Fall Fair. Many other categories – photos, wood working, canning, stitching, etc. For event information contact Diana at (250) 523-6561
Hungarian Piano Duo in Ashcroft
The talented Hungarian husband and wife duo of Zsolt and Andrea Farkas, will be touring western Canada with a great repertoire of Classical piano selections including Beethoven, Debussy, and Liszt among many others in their “Wonders of Creation” Concert. The concert is on Tuesday, Oct. 4 at 7 pm at the Sage Hills Evangelical Free Church on Mesa Vista Drive. Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy a wonderful evening of great music. There is no charge but donations will be accepted with the full amount going to the Pianists.
