Time: 6:15 p.m

Tickets :$23

http://www.2012albertasummergames.ca/

Opening Ceremonies will be taking place at the ENMAX Centre on Thursday, July 26, 2012 from 6:15-7:00pm. The ENMAX Centre is located at 2510 Scenic Drive South. Please contact the Games Office for any further information at 403-320-7766. NOTE - Tickets purchased from Chinook Tourist Association are consignment tickets and thus already have assigned seating. If you prefer to select your seats please purchase from the ENMAX Ticket Centre.

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Featuring the Lighting of the Cauldron ceremony, the Athlete Parade, as well as the band DELHI 2 DUBLIN! Please present this voucher at Chinook Country Tourist Association to claim the 2012 Alberta Summer Games wristbands that will be accepted as your admission ticket(s). Dates to claim your wristband are Monday, July 23 through Wednesday, July 25 from 8am-8pm. Thursday, July 26, tickets will be available from 9am-3pm at Chinook Country Tourist Association and 4-7:30pm at the ENMAX Centre. Chinook Country Tourist Association is located at 2805 Scenic Drive South, across the street from the ENMAX Centre, which is located at 2510 Scenic Drive South. 
 
 

 http://www.delhi2dublin.com

Delhi 2 Dublin continues to break the mold one album after another, busting genres as they go. It’s as if the band has been sent on a mission to further spread their sound across the planet and out into the galaxy. They describe the 2010-release of Planet Electric “as the buzz of the world that they are plugging into some large socket to electrify the people, to charge up their energy”. To capture that dynamism, all of the tracks on the album were road-tested in front of live audiences before being recorded. Something else the band did differently from the last album was going on a writers’ retreat where they worked on the music day and night for ten days straight. The results are definitely more representative of Delhi 2 Dublin as a band and a noticeable progression. The icing on the cake was being able to get Diamond “DJ Swami” Duggal (Apache Indian/Maxi Priest/Nusrat Fateh Ali) to mix the tracks.
Hour Magazine wrote that “Delhi 2 Dublin is the United Nations of rock ‘n’ roll”. The Vancouver, Canada-based band plays an energetic mash-up of Bhangra, Celtic, Dub, Reggae and Electronica with global rhythms and club beats. Tarun Nayar, Sanjay Seran, Andrew Kim and Ravi Binning, along with guest musicians Jaron Freeman-Fox and Sara Fitzpatrick, are diverse in both their backgrounds and musical influences. The band has been together almost six years and has released four full-length albums plus the latest EP, Delhi 2 Dubland.
Back in 2006, a live collaboration put together as a one-off performance piece for a club-night in Vancouver called “Delhi to Dublin” was so well-received that requests for additional performances led to the official formation of Delhi 2 Dublin. “Not being able to fit into any specific genre allows the band to create whatever we like and not be judged for it. Our audience expects nothing less.” The band finds this advantageous for their live show as it enables them to create a flow to their sets much like a DJ would for the dance floor. “Audiences love to see a band transcending stereotypes and letting the music speak for itself”.
The Delhi 2 Dublin crew are road warriors. They have played major festivals in both Canada and the U.S. including Bumbershoot in Seattle, Earthdance in California, Canada Day on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Stern Grove in San Francisco as well as such diverse events as SXSW in Austin, TX, the Keelung City Ghost Festival in Taiwan, the BaliSpirit Festival in Indonesia and the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The band has an ambitious schedule planned for 2012 kicking off with a handful of dates throughout the westcoast, as well as expanding horizons to include performances in Asia and Europe. In addition, a fresh new album is in the works to be released later this year. Delhi 2 Dublin has become one of Canada’s most buzzed-about bands and 2012 will only see them enhancing that reputation. After all…where else are you going to see a kick-ass fiddle player rocking out with a kilt-wearing Korean flanked by two bouncing Bhangra percussionists and a vocalist who looks like he would be at home in a Bollywood music video?