TGIF: Concerts and events listings for the South Okanagan

TGIF: Concerts and events listings for the South Okanagan

Sept. 4 Flamenco guitarist Robert Michaels will be performing at the Dream Cafe. Show begins at 8 p.m. For tickets call 250-490-9012.

Sept. 6 Music at the Grist Mill: Scott Cook and the Second Chances weave together folk, roots, blues, soul and country with spacious fingerstyle guitar and clawhammer banjo arrangements, part of the summer evening concert series at The Grist Mill and Gardens, 2691 Upper Bench Rd., Keremeos. Visit www.oldgristmill.ca/events or call 250-499-2888 for more info.

Sept. 9 Weird Al Yankovic on the Mandatory World Tour performs at the South Okanagan Events Centre.

Sept. 11-13 Pentastic Hot Jazz Festival

Sept. 12 The Trews at Tinhorn Creek in Oliver. Tickets are $75 plus GST and can be bought through tinhorn.com.

Sept. 12 Prairie sweethearts Belle Plaine and Blake Berglund on tour at the Dream Café with their country/folk record. Each will perform a set with their own side players and the ensemble comes together for a selection of duets.

Sept. 12 The fifth annual Quest For A Cure at Vineglass in Cawston. Entertainment by Barracuda, a Heart tribute band and Jerry Doucette. Live and silent auction with proceeds going to Cancer prevention and awareness. Tickets are $80. For more info visit www.vineglass.ca.

Sept. 24 — Juno award winner Ron Sexsmith will be at the Dream Cafe. Show begins at 8 p.m. For tickets call 250-490-9012.

Sept. 10 to Oct. 3 — Many Hats Theatre Co. presents Doubt, a Parable by John Patrick Shanley. Perfmorances take place at 8 p.m. on Thursday’s, Friday’s, and Saturday’s and a 2 p.m. Sunday matinee. Tickets cost $22 for adults and $19 for seniors and students, and area available at the Wine Country Visitors Centre.

Sept. 18 — The Great Grape Lake Stomp is an evening of good old stomping entertainment set on the Penticton Lakeside Resort’s private licensed beach. Tickets include a barbecue buffet, glass of wine and entry into the 15th annual event. Tickets are $25 a person. Teams for the grape stomp are $40. To purchase tickets call 250-493-8221.

Sept. 24 — 2015 MAUD Run at the Lakeshore Racquets Club. Event starts at 10 a.m. featuring the fun 1K, 3K or 5K run. There are prizes, music, kids activities and more. The event is held in the memory of Ellen Maud Lloyd and admission is by donation.

Sept. 26 to 27 — DeVine Arts at the Summerland Waterfront Resort from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. The arts & wine showcase will see Bottleneck Drive and the Summerland Waterfront Resort showcase the work of professional and semi-professional local artists.

Sept. 27 — The Penticton and South Okanagan Kidney Walk will be taking place at Gyro Park. Registration opens at 9 a.m. and the walk kicks off at 10. For more information or to put together a team visit www.kidneywalkbc.ca

Oct.9 to 10 — Cropped, B.C.’s larges wine tasting and farmers market comes to Penticton. Featuring over 80 wineries, a real farmers market and an educational pinot bar. Tickets are available at the SOEC Valley First Box Office, Wine Country Visitor Centre or by phone at 1-877-763-2849.

 

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