BC Place, Pacific Boulevard, Vancouver, BC, Canada
WELCOME TO COAST CITY COUNTRY!
Taking place in the heart of Vancouver, BC, this festival promises non-stop fun over three days, featuring exciting performances, and a “Country in the City” celebration like no other. The Main Event at BC Place Stadium on April 19-20 will host upwards of 75,000 fans in the stadium over the weekend and over 30 acts will take over the city from April 18-20. Coast City Country will provide music fans with a variety of experiences throughout the city including street parties and stages, late night programming at the historic Commodore Ballroom, an in-stadium craft beer and whiskey fest, outdoor BBQ smokehouse, and more!
With performances by Luke Bryan, Nickelback, Dierks Bentley, Bailey Zimmerman, and so many more this is sure to be the hottest festival!
Tickets go on sale December 8th at 10:00am
A portion of the proceeds from tickets sold will go to various charities in support of BC wildfire relief.
VENUE INFOBC PLACE
Doors: 3PM | ALL AGES
777 Pacific Blvd, Vancouver, BC V6B 4Y8
COMMODORE BALLROOM
All Commodore Ballroom Late Night events are 19+
868 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 1K3
Proudly supported by New Country 103.1
Thompson Rivers University, Tru Way, Kamloops, BC, Canada
“Chefs in the City” is a celebration of the culinary arts, fine wine and beer from Kamloops and the surrounding region. Guests enjoy beverages, hors d’oeuvres, and desserts as they mingle with professional chefs, restaurant owners, caterers, vintners, brewers, and friends. There will be local restaurants and caterers participating, along with local wineries and breweries. Your ticket to this event pays for all food and beverages, an amazing value that also helps good causes in your community.
With your help Kamloops Rotary Club has raised more than $400,000 in the past years to fund community programs for youth in need, primarily focusing on social support and proper nutrition for underprivileged children in Kamloops. Through our event you have also supported Kamloops Food Bank, TRU Bursaries, Christopher Seguin Rotary Family Dinners, Wildfire Recovery Fund, as well as projects providing clean water and education in less fortunate parts of the world.
Event Highlights
Culinary creations from 20 Local Chefs and Caterers
Wine and beer tasting from 12 Wineries and Breweries
Vote for the People’s Choice Award for best chef of 2024
Live Jazz Music
Amazing quantities of Food, Fun, and Fellowship … all packed into one great evening!
All funds raised go to help youth, feed the hungry, and support projects in our local community.
This is a mix-and-mingle event. Limited seating is available for the disabled and elderly only. 19+ Event.
Proudly supported by New Country 103.1
Abbotsford Centre, King Road, Abbotsford, BC, Canada
Known for his explosive live shows and electrifying stage presence, COJO Music / Warner Music Nashville Platinum recording artist Cody Johnson has established a following of passionately loyal fans who regularly sell out shows across the United States. MusicRow predicted Cody “just might be the future of real country music” as his career has skyrocketed with three celebrated albums, Human The Double Album, A Cody Johnson Christmas and Cody Johnson & The Rockin’ CJB Live, and an award-winning feature-length documentary “Dear Rodeo: The Cody Johnson Story.” He has 17 career RIAA certifications, a Pandora Billionaire Award and over 5 billion global streams. His numerous industry honors include recognition as a CMT Artist of The Year, three CMT Music Awards wins, two CMA Awards and being named “Best New Country Artist” at the iHeart Music Awards. Cody spoke exclusively to Billboard about the release of his new album “Leather” set for release on November 3rd and it being ‘authentic.’ “People appreciate authenticity, whether it’s me being a cowboy and singing something that reminds people of ‘90s country stuff they grew up on, or someone like the Zach Bryans and guys that are more like what probably is considered Americana, or Jelly Roll, who is completely the opposite of me, musically,” Johnson says. “But authenticity is the common thread.” Writer Jessica Nicholson asked how the album’s cover art came to be, “I was working at the ranch that day, so I told my photographer Chris Douglas to come over,” Johnson tells Billboard. “That’s blood and hair in that picture from castrating bulls and giving them shots that day. We didn’t stage any of that. We got started at 5:00 a.m. and worked all day and he ended up getting some incredible photos while we were working.” Read the full Billboard story here.
South Okanagan Events Centre, Eckhardt Avenue West, Penticton, BC, Canada
Clint Black’s “Killin’ Time – The 35th Anniversary World Tour” will be coming to the South Okanagan Events Centre on Friday, June 14, 2024! For the first time ever he will be playing his groundbreaking debut album start to finish plus more legendary hits!
Kelowna City Park, Abbott Street, Kelowna, BC, Canada
Florida Georgia Line’s Tyler Hubbard will be headlining this year’s Denim on the Diamond, Saturday, August 31st at City Park!
Joining Hubbard is a stellar line-up of Nashville’s up-and-coming stars:Alana Springsteen, Matt Schuster and Alli Walker
To keep the energy up between sets and ensure a memorable concert experience, DJ VAVO will be remixing country beats all night long.
You know there’s a few things you outta know, and that something is on September 26th,2024 Lainey Wilson will be bringing her Country’s Cool Again Tour to Rogers Arena in Vancouver!
Joining Lainey is Jackson Dean AND Zach Top
Jordan Davis is bringing his Damn Good Time WORLD Tour to Prospera Place in Kelowna next October!
Joining Jordan Davis is Ashley Cooke!
Tickets on sale Friday October 13th
Kelowna Community Theatre, Water Street, Kelowna, BC, Canada
For Tenille Townes, writing songs is a way of reaching out to anyone longing to make sense of a wildly
confusing world. In the last five years alone, the Canada-born artist’s full-hearted and soul-searching
songwriting has led to such milestones as touring with legends like Stevie Nicks, Miranda Lambert and
Shania Twain and taking home two JUNO Awards —all while building up a globe-spanning fanbase
irresistibly drawn to her intensely honest storytelling. With her many accolades also including 17 Canadian
Country Music Association Awards and two Academy Of Country Music Awards, the Nashville-based rising
star now begins a bold new chapter with her most fully realized work to date: a gorgeously sculpted batch
of songs that bring a moodier and more unfettered sound to her compassionate lyrical outpouring.
“What I love about making music is the potential for my songs to meet people right where they are, but then
leave them feeling a little bit more seen and lifted-up than they were before,” says Townes. “I feel like it’s
my job to make sure people come away with some sense of hope, even if it’s just the comfort of knowing
that someone else out there feels the same way they do.”
The first offering from Townes’ latest body of work, “As You Are” strays sonically from past hits like her
gold-certified, chart-topping smash “Somebody’s Daughter” and leans toward a more spacious and
hypnotic breed of Americana. In composing the track’s gauzy guitar tones and shapeshifting textures,
Townes headed to the Seattle area to collaborate with producer/engineer Ryan Hadlock—a Grammy
nominee known for his work with Brandi Carlile, The Lumineers, and seminal alt-rock acts like Blonde
Redhead and The Afghan Whigs. “I’d been feeling the need to explore a new sonic direction, something
that would hold space for real vulnerability but also allow for more of the indie-rock edge that my band and
I organically bring to our shows,” says Townes. Written by Townes, Maggie Chapman (The Highwomen,
Wafia) and David Pramik (Joy Oladokun, LANY), “As You Are” ultimately matches its mesmerizing sound
with a tender meditation on shame, acceptance, and unconditional love. “The whole time we were working
on that song I was thinking about the idea of loving all the parts of someone, especially the parts they’re
scared to show to the world,” says Townes. “When I listened back later, it hit me that on a much deeper
level I’d written exactly what I’d want to hear when I’m struggling and putting up walls: someone to tell me,
‘Hey, you’re good just as you are. Don’t change a thing.’”
A stunning showcase for her raw yet nuanced vocal work, “As You Are” expands on the boundless
generosity of spirit Townes has brought to her songs from the very start. As a little girl growing up in Grande
Prairie, Alberta, she first fell in love with music thanks to the eclectic mix of artists her parents played at
home (“A lot of Dolly Parton and U2, and whatever else they were controlling the stereo with”), then
discovered her passion for songwriting at age 14. “My grandparents gave me a guitar and I started learning
the chords I needed to make songs out of what I was writing in my journal,” she recalls, naming
singer/songwriters like Patty Griffin and Lori McKenna among her enduring influences. “It was so liberating
to take all the things I had a hard time saying out loud and put them into a song—it felt like I’d found a much
easier form of communication.”
As she sharpened her craft by playing everywhere from fundraisers to hockey games in her hometown,
Townes decided to forgo college and pursue a career in music despite her parents’ apprehension. To prove
her dedication to her chosen path, she then organized, booked, and secured sponsors for a 32-week-long
tour in which she traveled across Canada in a motor home and performed in middle-school and high-school
gymnasiums. “I’m a Malcolm Gladwell fan, so I gave my parents my 10,000 hours pitch for why it made
sense for me to do the crazy music thing instead of going to school,” she says. “After I finished the tour, my
dad drove the 47 hours with me to Nashville and I moved into a little garage apartment, far away from
everyone I knew. It was the loneliest time in my life, but it helped me to find my voice in a whole new way.”
During her first few years in Nashville, Townes devoted herself to writing and recording demos spotlighting
her radiant voice and endlessly empathetic lyrics. When one of those demos caught the attention of Sony
Music Nashville, she inked a deal with the label and set to work on her debut album, The Lemonade Stand—
a 2020 LP that delivered standouts like “Jersey on The Wall (I’m Just Asking),” a profoundly moving track
inspired by Townes’ experience in performing at a New Brunswick high school and learning of a then-recent
car crash that took the life of the star of the school’s basketball team. Thanks to the massive success of
“Jersey on The Wall” and “Somebody’s Daughter” (a song that tells the imagined backstory of an unhoused
girl Townes encountered in Nashville), she soon emerged as the first female artist in Mediabase Canada
history to score two No. 1 singles, adding to a fast-growing list of triumphs that also included The Lemonade
Stand’s winning Country Album of the Year at the 2021 JUNO Awards. Townes seized that coveted prize
again with 2022’s Masquerades, a seven-song project revealing her more introspective side on hits like
“When’s It Gonna Happen” and its candid account of the aching frustration that sometimes accompanies
single life. Later in 2022, she headed overseas and toured all over Europe and the UK, hit the road with
country icon George Strait, and capped off the year by embarking on a train trip across Southern Canada—
a 3,000-mile trek in which she played 65 shows in 15 days in support of local food banks. The following
April, Townes returned with Train Track Worktapes: an EP mostly made up of songs written on the journey
and recorded in the train’s caboose.
When it came time to record “As You Are” and its follow-up singles, Townes spent 10 days at Bear Creek
Studios in Washington, where she and Hadlock immersed themselves in dreaming up a sonic backdrop
suited to the unhurried contemplation of her lyrics. “Throughout the whole process of working with Ryan I
felt more free than I ever had in the studio,” she says. “Instead of trying to fit everything into a specific
sound, we let the production breathe and focused on supporting the narrative and the emotion of the song
as a whole.” Featuring Townes on acoustic guitar and Hadlock on Moog synth, “As You Are” came to life
in collaboration with musicians like cellist Josh Neumann (Joni Mitchell, The Secret Sisters),
drummer/percussionist William Mapp (Zach Bryan, Courtney Marie Andrews), and bass violinist Kimo
Muraki (Vance Joy, The Strumbellas), all of whom helped shape the track’s sparse but spellbinding
soundscape. “‘As You Are’ came from Ryan telling me to play the song the same way I would if I was just
sitting in the living room with some friends,” says Townes. “I pulled out my acoustic and he ran it through
an amp with a lot of distortion coming from it—it felt like it sort of put a leather jacket on the song, and added
some grit to a very simple emotional statement. And that’s exactly what I was looking for.”
By embracing a more stripped-back and free-flowing sound than she’d ever attempted before, Townes has
exponentially magnified the intimacy of her music—an element that’s especially abundant in her live
performance. “I think a lot of people come to see me for the more emotional songs, but we also love to have
those moments that feel like an explosion of joy, where everyone can have fun and stomp around and
forget about everything else for a while,” says Townes, who’s now toured with Keith Urban, Reba, Zac
Brown Band, and Dierks Bentley. Referring to her live show as a “safe space where everyone can be
whoever they are,” Townes is quick to note that the most rewarding moments often occur at the end of the
night, when she gets to interact with her fans one-on-one. “To me, the greatest measure of success is the
stories that people share with me about how my songs have affected them,” she says. “It just proves how
powerful music can be—there can be a door inside you that’s closed for a long time, and then you hear a
song that cracks it open a bit, and all of a sudden there’s light coming in. It’s always a reminder to keep
creating what feels true to me, so that hopefully it’ll end up making other people feel more understood.”