Bands that will be in Brandon for WCMA time!
8/19/2009 at 2:15 AM
I'm using this as a thread of bands that will be in this Wheat City for (or around the time of) the Western Canadian Music Awards!
A few bands that have confirmed include:
Hey Ocean! A band from Vancouver that Gene Simmons has an interest in. They have some great live music
http://www.myspace.com/heyocean
The Wheat Pool.. possibly the best named band to be playing The Wheat City, this rock band from Alberta is a great band, they even caused a bit of controversy on CBC Radio 3 (with help of me weirdly enough) because of their song "Geographic Centre of Canada". There was a debate on the CBC Radio 3 program "R3-30" which is a weekly Canadian indie countdown that regularly discussed "where IS" the centre of Canada, I might have added fuel to that fire saying that it was Brandon. But it gave the band alot of exposure.
http://www.myspace.com/thewheatpool
I haven't heard anything concrete yet, but there's a cool band from Vancouver that's planning to come to Brandon the weekend before the festivities called Mojave. They're a two piece acoustic band and they're doing a tour across Canada and on Sept 13 they're performing at the North Hill Inn.
http://mojavemusic.ca/
If I hear more updates of bands that may perform in Brandon, I'll keep everyone posted!