The Steadies will play at MooseFest on Aug. 7 at Bellevue. (Submitted photo/Mark Poppen)

By Dawson Thompson

Music Fests

Plenty of musical options for residents of Prince Albert and area to wrap up the summer

Jul 28, 2021 | 1:46 PM

Live music is making its way back to Prince Albert.

One of the first shows to look forward to will be Jake Vaadeland & The Sturgeon River Boys, who will perform at the EA Rawlinson Centre on August 4th.

“They are the dash of bluegrass music in our summer drive-in series,” Cara Stelmaschuk, events coordinator told paNOW. “Jake writes his own songs, has his own style, and sounds like a young Johnny Cash, which blows my mind when you realize how young he is [18].”

Jake Vaadeland. (earc.ca)

There will be three more drive-in concerts this year at the Rawlinson.

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“They have been going great,” Stelmaschuk said. “The audiences have really been enjoying them. We are seeing some people who are coming to all of them, and we are also getting a really good crowd of people who like one particular genre and that is the one drive-in they come to.

“Jake’s show is selling very well, I believe there are 13 spots left.”

The Rawlinson Centre will also host Allyson Reigh on August 18th and will finish off the drive-in series with a show from W3APONS on September 1st.

Another thing to look forward to for music fans will be MooseFest which will be a debut music festival taking place at Bellevue, about 40 minutes south of Prince Albert. MooseFest will be on August 7th, doors will open at 6:30 p.m.

(Submitted picture/Mark Poppen)

There will be plenty of different genres at MooseFest as three different Canadian bands will be featured that night.

The Steadies are a high-energy band based out of Saskatoon who mix pop-rock with other sounds like reggae, creating an ‘island-rock’. League of Wolves will also be playing that night, another group based out of Saskatoon, and they are a hard-hitting rock group. Lastly, Seven Mile Sun will also take to the stage in Bellevue. They have an alt-rock sound and originate from Harris, Saskatchewan.

League of Wolves. (Submitted picture/Mark Poppen)

Organizers of the event, Mark Poppen and Joel Gaudet say it will be a fun night and will be safe as well as they will be following health protocols.

One last festival during the summer months will be the ninth Country at the creek music festival which will be held from August 27-28 at the Ladder Valley Community Hall Grounds about 13 kilometers southeast of Big River.

Jeanette Wicinski-Dunn, organizer of the event said the names on the line-up are all Saskatchewan artists and some have played at the festival in the past.

“I call them local Saskatchewan entertainment,” Wicinski-Dunn said. “Tickets have been really selling well, I think people are really looking forward to getting back into live music and camping with their friends and family.”

Some of the features at the festival include Rod Gjerde, Munro and Patrick, Trick Ryder, and River’s Edge among many others.

River’s Edge. (countryatthecreek.ca)

The event will be smaller this year due to COVID restrictions. They do not have online sales for tickets this year, instead Jeanette is asking that anyone who is looking to purchase tickets to call her number, where she will then e-mail the tickets out.

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