There are a couple excellent folk and blues show in a week which really does have a little bit of everything.
One of my favourite bluesmen, Edmonton’s Marshall Lawrence is getting pumped up with the Battle of the Blues with John Rutherford at the Slice, Jan. 25.
The show begins at 8 p.m. There is a $10 cover for it.
And continuing with the boxing theme, there is also music for a good cause this weekend as Soup of Flies help “Knockdown Cancer” with a wind up gala evening at HB’S Lounge, Jan. 28.
It is the wind up event for a month’s worth of fundraising presenting by bowling centres across Canada throughout January. They have been putting pink bands around the bowing pins, provided a donation box and have donated 25 cents from each bowling shoe rental throughout the month. In addition to music, there will be bowling, of course, both regular and cosmic bowling with local celebrities, a live and silent auction featuring a variety of items including golf, Bulls baseball, teeth whitening, hair care products and restaurant gift certificates. There will be free pizza and a dance with all proceeds going to the Canadian Cancer Society. Tickets are $25 each.
Another one of my favourites, Jenny Allen and Leslie Alexander are looking forward to returning to Lethbridge to play the Slice, Jan. 27 before heading south for the Folk Alliance Conference in Memphis.
The duo have each released new CDs in the past year and help each other out on them.
The show is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m.
The other big show this week will have hardcore rap fans out in force at the Stone, Jan. 27. Vancouver favourites the Swollen Members and special guests La Coka Nostra, who come to Lethbridge straight out of Boston will be performing. La Coka Nostra includes Slaine, who is also getting known as an actor, as well as most of popular ’90s rap group House Of Pain including Everlast, Danny Boy, Ill Bill and DJ Eclipse. Special guests City Prophets, Indelible, F-Bomb and Sin-Sane are also performing.
Tickets for the show, which begins at 9 p.m., cost $30 at the door.
If you want to laugh, check out the Snowed In Comedy Tour, which comes to Average Joes, Sunday, Jan. 29.
Featured comedians include Dan Quinn, Craig Campbell, Glen Wool, Pete Johanson and Arj Barker, who plays Dave on Flight of the Conchords. Tickets are $20, but the first 50 pre-sales cost $10. The show begins at 8 p.m.
A couple other cool shows this week include Thom Swift and The Fairly Odd Folk, who play the Slice, Jan. 26. Marc Ross returns to the Owl Acoustic Lounge, Jan. 27.
And, last, but not least, this week the Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra presents Chamber Series III which features the University of Lethbridge Faculty Brass. It takes place at the Southminster United Church, Jan. 27 at 7:30 p.m.
