Five Alarm Funk

Five Alarm Funk

Funk and folk for Surrey’s Earth Day celebration

Headlining acts announced for Party for the Planet April 25.



This year’s Party for the Planet just got a lot more funky.

Organizers of the all-day City of Surrey event unveiled the entertainment lineup Monday, with Five Alarm Funk announced as the headliner.

The band, which describes itself as a “horn powered, percussion-fuelled sonic and visual assault,” will brings its high-energy dance sound to the Surrey stage April 25, just a month-and-a-half before releasing its fifth studio album, Abandon Earth.

Also taking the spotlight at the Earth Day celebration will be Surrey’s own Good For Grapes. Fresh off their third cross-Canada tour promoting their latest single, Skipping Stone, the energetic folk group is still basking in the glow of winning the PEAK Performance Project (and $102,000) last fall.

The day features an array of speakers and entertainment on two stages, as well as roving performers and story times and child-friendly presentations at the City Centre Library.

There will be a birds of prey demonstration, farmer’s market, tree and native plant sale, rock climbing and the Salmon Parade.

The event goes from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m and is free.

Visit www.surrey.ca/partyfortheplanet for more information.

 

Surrey Now Leader