Edmonton based R and B/jazz and pop singer/songwriter Ann Vriend returns to Lethbridge to play a special ticketed event at the Owl Acoustic lounge with her band.
 Vriend, who usually plays with jazz pianist  Rooster Davis, will be able to showcase their own music.

“I don’t play a lot with Rooster anymore. I’ve been so busy playing as a duo or trio shows,” she said, adding she is spending a lot of time touring in Japan as a duo.

“Pop is a pretty broad term. I sing more R and B and soul music,” said Vriend, boarding a plane to Scotland.

“I’m playing  six shows for the Ottawa Tourism board, I’m part of the entertainment,” she enthused, adding she got that gig  through knowing the organizer who also used to co-ordinate similar tourism events in Edmonton.

“ I’ve never been to Scotland before,” she said.

 
 She will return to Edmonton for a show and bring her band, including another keyboardist Brennan Cameron, drummer Dave Oostra  and bassist Reed Riehl.
 
“ It will be a pretty lively show. We’ll play the music from the last album, the previous album which is in a similar vein and some music we haven’t recorded yet,” she said.

“I get called a pop singer, but I’m more of an R and B and soul singer,“ she said.

 Tickets for the special event cost $15. Jon Martin from the New Weather Machine will also be performing. the show begins at 9 p.m., June 22.