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Diverse line-up for Invermere MusicFest Mountain Stage
By Katie Wallace
Join us for the best weekend of the summer!
This year’s Invermere MusicFest will be held on August 22 and 23 with up-and-coming artists you won’t want to miss.
With two-stages of live music to choose from, the Lake Stage and Mountain Stage will feature a variety of music genres.
Pharis & Jason Romero will be onstage at 1:45 p.m. singing vibrant duets, playing hand-made banjos and old acoustic guitars. These passionate musicians met in 2007 and have since released three records as a duo. Their second release – Long Gone Out West Blues – won this small town B.C. couple a Canadian Folk Music Award for Traditional Singer, an Independent Music Award nomination for Americana Album, and two Western Canadian Music Awards nominations.
Pharis & Jason have appeared on A Prairie Home Companion several times, toured with The Vinyl Cafe, played the Vancouver, Winnipeg and Edmonton Folk Music Festivals, and have performed and taught across North America and the UK.
36? – an award winning Calgary alternative rock band – will be onstage at 3:45 p.m. In 2006, 36? was a solo project of 17-year old Taylor Cochrane. Six years and three self-produced albums later, Cochrane joined forces with Eric Svilpis and Scott White and took to the stage. In 2014, 36? became fully immersed in the Canadian music scene, playing at a variety of music festivals through the summer time and winning third place in the first Peak Performance Project in Alberta.
Another emerging Canadian artist to watch out for is Devon Coyote, a multi-instrumentalist with an infectious sound, playing at 5:45 p.m.
The name ‘Devon Coyote’ encompasses song writing and melodic guitar rhythms of Devon Bjarnason, the sultry bass lines of D’Arcy Booth, and the animalistic drumming of Rod Anderson, this group has crossed musical boundaries to create an original and genuine, high-energy experience (think Dave Matthews meets Pearl Jam, John Mayer solos, and Ben Harper lap-steel slide guitar).
A family-orientated festival in its third year, the Invermere MusicFest offers entertainment and activities for all ages. With its picturesque location, set at the Kinsmen Beach Greenspace and Lake Windermere as a backdrop, anyone looking for a fun, laid-back, and funky festival needs to add this festival to their summer plans!
To see this year’s full line-up, to purchase tickets, or to find out more about volunteer and sponsorship opportunities, please visit: www.invermeremusicfest.com.
