Blue Rodeo in concert. Credit: Source: Wikipedia

Blue Rodeo to make Okanagan stop during Canadian tour

KELOWNA – Iconic Canadian band Blue Rodeo is coming to Kelowna early next year.

The band announced today, Oct. 7, a cross-country tour in support of their new album Live at Massey Hall.

Blue Rodeo first pierced the Canadian conciousness with their 1987 album Outskirts and is planning to release a selection of their albums including Casino, Lost Together and Five Days on vinyl in July. The band has sold more than four million albums, won multiple Juno Awards, toured the world, has been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and has a star on the Walk of Fame.

Kelowna is the only Interior stop on the tour, which begins Jan. 12 in Thunder Bay, Ont., and ends in St. John’s, Nfld. in late February. Other B.C. stops include Cranbrook, Vancouver and Victoria.

Blue Rodeo will hit the stage in Kelowna on Jan. 25 at Prospera Place. Tickets, which range from about $30 to $75, go on sale Oct. 16 through Select Your Tickets or at the Prospera Place box office.

As a bonus, fans who purchase tickets will be invited to choose a digital download of any studio album in the bands catalogue, including Live at Massey Hall.

To contact the reporter for this story, email John McDonald at jmcdonald@infonews.ca or call 250-808-0143. To contact the editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724

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John began life as a journalist through the Other Press, the independent student newspaper for Douglas College in New Westminster. The fluid nature of student journalism meant he was soon running the place, learning on the fly how to publish a newspaper.

It wasn’t until he moved to Kelowna he broke into the mainstream media, working for Okanagan Sunday, then the Kelowna Daily Courier and Okanagan Saturday doing news graphics and page layout. He carried on with the Kelowna Capital News, covering health and education while also working on special projects, including the design and launch of a mass market daily newspaper. After 12 years there, John rejoined the Kelowna Daily Courier as editor of the Westside Weekly, directing news coverage as the Westside became West Kelowna.

But digital media beckoned and John joined Kelowna.com as assistant editor and reporter, riding the start-up as it at first soared then went down in flames. Now John is turning dirt as city hall reporter for iNFOnews.ca where he brings his long experience to bear on the civic issues of the day.

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