March ends with a blast as ZZ Top visits the Enmax Centre, March 31, but the first week of April is really slow.
Get a taste of last year’s Lethbridge Jazz Festival as the Slice brings back Calgary’s Bluesland Horn band, April 2.
This week, though is mostly about hip hop and electronica and comedy.
Comedy
begins early in the week with the Owl Acoustic Lounge’s comedy open
mic, March 30. The day after that on March 31, Canadian comedian Simon
King performs at Average Joes with Chris Gordon. Gordon has appeared on
Just For Laughs and Last Comic Standing.
Simon King has appeared on
the Comedy Network, CBC, CTV and TBS. Admission is $15 on the day of
the show, $10 in advance. The show begins at 8 p.m.
And you can’t have April Fools Day without comedy, so Average Joes is the place to go on Friday April 1, when Yuk Yuks Comedy returns with Paul Kuster, Alex Sparing and host Randy Webb. Tickets are $15 on the day of the show and $10 in advance. The laughter begins at 8:30 p.m.
For electronica music, Inferno is the place to be. Perkulat0r, Metaphoracle and Gangstronaut will be at Inferno with Berg and Zero Lux on April 1 beginning at 9 p.m. Tickets cost $15 in advance, $20 at the door. The other big show at Inferno is April 5 when Detroit hip hop duo Twizted bring the Twizted Juggalo Invasion to Lethbridge with Boondox, Blaze-Ya, Dead Homie, Lex the Hex Master, plus SaintAnik and local rappers Sin Sane, Pyke, Nightsinger and Mr. Work.
Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door.
For the complete opposite to that, Floyd
Sillito brings traditional country music back to the Lethbridge Public
Library at noon on April 6.
And for something different again, the
Geomatic Attic winds down their season with Penticton based writer/
poet/ spoken word artist Shane Koyczan, performing a sold out show on
April 3. He is considering adding a second show for April 4.
Tonight,
Saskatchewan roots and country band the Zachary Lucky Trio return to
Lethbridge to play the Farm just north of Lethbridge. More details can
be found at https://www.facebook.com/events/1747571895471827/1757386147823735/
There
is also classical music on the weekend, as the Lethbridge Symphony
Orchestra Extras series opens their season, April 2 at 8 p.m. with
Kaffee Konzert at at La Cité des Prairies (2104 – 6 Avenue South).
But there will be a lot of very cool shows coming up later in the month.
Alternative pop musician Lauren Mann of Calgary band the Fairly Odd Folk will be coming to the Slice, April 6 with White Bird.
Before that bagpipe powered rockers The Mudmen return to Lethbridge, April 8 to play Soundgarden. Tickets cost $20. Doors open at 8 p.m.
Country stars Gord Bamford and Joe Nichols play the Enmax Centre, April 9. Both of them are established acts who have a lot of hits on modern country radio. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m., April 9 at the Enmax Centre. Tickets cost $51.25, $71.75 and $86.75.
And for ’90s rock fans, Sloan will be returning to Average Joes, April 11. That is just the beginning of an exciting April.
