Whoop-Up Days is the biggest thing happening throughout the week.
In addition to lots of family fun throughout the week, beginning Tuesday, Aug. 23, there will also be a lot of classic rock bands playing. 
Lighthouse makes their first appearance in Lethbridge since 1974 on Tuesday, Aug. 23.
But one of my favourite classic rock bands, Trooper will “Raise a little Hell” on Wednesday. They have a string of hits including “We’re Here for a Good Time (Not A Long Time), “Boys In The Bright White Sports Car,” and countless others.
Kenny Shields and Streetheart will be playing their hits including “Action,” “Snow White” “What Kind of Love Is This,” and Hollywood,” on Thursday, Aug. 25. They are on stage at 7:30 p.m. with Hippodrome bringing the funk and R and B afterwards at 9 p.m.
Friday is country night on the fair grounds, Aug. 26 with classic rock band Unzipped followed by Trevor Panczak and Rough Stock playing at 9:30 p.m.
Prism, who have numerous hits including “Spaceship Superstar,” “See Forever Eyes,” “Armageddon,” “Take Me To The Kaptain” and “Night to Remember,” winds up Whoop -Up Days on Saturday. Who’s Yer Daddy opens the show at 7:30 p.m. Prism will follow at 9 p.m.
Admission to all of the Whoop-up Days concerts is included with the gate admission, which is $10 for seniors and in advance and $12 for adults.
But if you like blues, you won’t want to miss two of Winnipeg’s best — Romi Mayes and the Perpetrators’ guitarist/ singer Jay Nowicki, who will be performing as a duo at the Slice, Aug. 26.
Saturday, Aug. 27 is also a big night with the Plaid Tongued Devils returning to rock the Slice eastern style. Admission is $10.
But most of the music community will be out on the south end of Research Station Road near the Evergreen golf course for Bigwood IIII, where a wide variety of local bands from folk and blues to metal also Aug. 27 all day.
The performers include New Weather Machine, Smokestack Jacks, Phantom Creeps, Berserker, Leeroy Stagger, Dirti Speshuls, Duus Blues Band, Toques & Beards, Treeline, Mr. Personal, Blue Sensashun, Gravity Crash, Andrew Scott, Lustre Cream and The Horrorshow Groodies. There will also be a new burlesque trio performing a couple sets.
Admission is $20 cash, though kids 12 and under get in for free. There will be a pig roast and food from the Fiery Greek lots of fun and music, which begins at approximately 1 p.m. with the first band slated to start at 1:45 p.m.
The other big event of the week is a benefit / memorial concert for Jacek, the son of popular local musician Mike Kuzminski, who passed away from his second battle with cancer, in June.
Kuzminski was a popular and integral member of the local music scene playing with a variety of bands from the ’80s including Mantis, the Peace Dogs, Heartbeat and most recently Soup of Flies and Smokestack Jacks.
Some of the ’80s bands he was in will be reuniting for this special one time show, Aug. 28 at the Soundgarden.
White Knights, Mantis, Peace Dogs, Heartbeat and Soup of Flies will be performing all of your favourite ’80s/ early ’90s hits.
There will also be a silent and live auction of a variety of donated items including gold pendants, an autographed Wendel Clark Maple Leafs jersey, guitars and much more. There will be items from Emerson Drive and Prism, plus autographed pictures of Johnny Reid, Big and Rich, Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley and Keith Urban.
Door open at 6 p.m.. There is a $25 cover which even the band members playing will be paying. All of the money raised goes to a special scholarship fund set up for Jacek.
