Wild and Crazy Dance Party

Woooopa! Tickets are on sale now! Wild Dance Party, Lumby August 11, 7.30 pm, Pat Duke Arena,2270 Shield Str.Lumby, BC,Canada tickets in Lumby: “Take Two Pizza” and “Private Liquor Store” online: http://www.ticketseller.ca/1388 $10 and $5 /a ticket https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Hd-I91jck Don’t miss this “one of the kind” Wild Dance Party! Only once a year – at the Lumby Art & Music Festival. We have an amazing, funky and unique band performing the crazy rhythms of bluegrass, folk, rock and roll and gypsy music! 4 Blackberries will be playing at our Friday Night Wild Dance Party. Their music is very engaging and suitable for all ages! They’ve kicked up dust in towns all over Western Canada, the United Kingdom and parts of the United States. Woooopa!!! Dress up in your favorite funky hat, shoes or a Halloween outfit! Price for the weirdest costume – $50 pure gold cash! Or, dress down if you are in a lazy summer mode. Grab your family, kids, neighbors, grandparents, and friends (we have a group rate discount). Buy tickets to your employees to show your appreciation for their work. This dance ticket makes a perfect gift for anyone. We will have food and wine/beer garden available at nearby building (Community Hall). Thanks to Monashee Art Council who sponsored the event – tickets are only $10 and $5! Big thank you to our Main Sponsors: The Village of Lumby and Regional District of North Okanagan! About the band: Blackberry Wood is a wonderful, secret and magic combination of alt-country-gypsy-circus music. They are on tour now in support of their newest record “Strong Man vs Russian Bears”, it’s a wonderful sounding vaudevillian ruckus!!! They play a high-energy cabaret spin on dreamy old musical styles adding big juicy modern flavours like jumpin’ ska, rock and roll, blues, bumpin’ hip-hop, gypsy punk ‘n many other irresistible body shakin’, foot stompin’ sounds. Blackberry Wood comes down the road like a travelling caravan, with all kinds of wondrous instruments, vocal melodies and fantastically costumed characters. What other folks say!!! Stuart Derdeyn, Vancouver Province, February 6th, 2009 “High-powered acoustic dance music aptly describes the bohemian beat. It’s a sound that works in clubs, parties, big festivals — you name it.” Kevin Potvin, Republic of East Vancouver, August 14th, 2008 “Gave me the impression of a big modern inner-city version of the traditional hoedown in the neighbors barn kind of night. I felt something like what I imagine farmers felt when they hung up their overalls for the week and hustled down to the crossroads for a little long-awaited good ol’ jumping around to shake out all the kinks of field work” Jeanie Keogh, BC Musician Magazine, May 11th, 2011 “Fit to compete with the cast of Moulin Rouge with their zany costumes, Blackberry Wood seems ready to strike up a burlesque hoedown just about anywhere you plunk them down” Linda Solomon, The Vancouver Observer, April 8th, 2008 “Were they country, were they rock, were they polka, or were they punk? Were they burlesque? Or were they just plain fun? Yes!” Streethawk Magazine, June 18th, 2007 “Blackberry Wood – a motley crew of guitar, horns, and accordion-led by Music Waste’s originator Kris Wood – kept up the night’s fun energy with a sound best described as bar mitzvah-meets-barn dance. Eric Epstein, Artistic Director, Frostbite Music Festival, Feb 19th-21st 2010 “When I first chanced upon Blackberry Wood playing at Café Deux Soleils in Vancouver, I felt like I had stumbled onto the Yukon party spirit, kicking it old-time on the west coast. I wanted to bring them to Frostbite at once, and I grabbed my first opportunity to do just that. They exceeded my expectations by existing as their own festival: a traveling band of gypsy-party musicians who bring the spirit of hokum to life with original tunes as well as with some brilliantly chosen, stunningly unexpected covers. Each show is unique. I adore them.” Shara Gustafson, Director, Robson Valley Music Festival, August 20th – 22nd, 2010 ” Blackberry Wood’ s frantic energy & love of the stage spread a contagious frenzy throughout our Saturday night festival audience! ” Clayton Brander, Director, Sunshine Music Festival, Sept 3rd-5th, 2010 “Blackberry Wood’s energy was as amazing as it was infectious. Their wild costumes, fantastic music, and incredible stage presence got everyone in the audience up and dancing through their set – start to finish. Based on their reputation I expected a lot, and they definitely lived up to it. I couldn’t be more pleased with having booked them.”