Time: 9 p.m.

Cover: $10 after 9 p.m.

www.shanechisholm.com or www.myspace.com/shanechisholm  

It’s Grand Opening Party Time again at Average Joe’s Sports Bar in downtown Lethbridge. On Friday, September 3rd Average Joe’s will celebrate the new name for their back room music venue by welcoming you to Joe’s Garage. Joe’s Garage, where the music is great and anything can happen.

...The party atmosphere will be led by the music of rising country star Shane Chisholm. Shane, who hails from Claresholm, is a multi talented member of the Canadian country music world. He has played base and sung back up for Gord Bamford , George Canyon and Julian Austin. He writes his own songs and has his own CD out titled Hitchhiking Budda . ( give it a listen on Shane’s website, www.shanechisholm.homestead.com). In 2009 he was nominated for the CCMA Country Roots Artist of the Year award. Not only that, he makes his own instruments, his latest being an upright base crafted from the gas tank of a Chevy mini van.

The party starts early at Joe’s Garage and Shane’s performance will begin at 10:00 P.M. There will be a $10.00 cover charge after 9:00. 

Shane Chisholm's country crooning can be dated back to a time when his mother put him on stage with his two siblings singing Country Classics in three part harmony where Shane commanded the Bass lines with his deep and rich two year old voice. "I just always had a low voice." says Shane Growing up in a rural area outside of Sault.Ste.Marie Ontario Shane found ways of expressing his creativity by singing, playing and writing about future heart breaks. Shane has become a road warrior, touring Canada with his own band as well as Bassist and backup singer for many of Canada’s biggest Country Stars having preformed with Aaron Lines, Gil Grand, Aaron Pritchett, Steve Fox, Julian Austin, Duane Steele, Beverly Mahood, Sean Hogan, Jake Mathews and has also been nominated for CCMA Bass player of the year in 2003, 2004, 2007 Now residing in Claresholm Alberta Shane is currently writing and recording songs for his first roots/country solo record His writing has been described as “Light to Dark with an element danger”. With a passion for telling stories and a desire to entertain Shane is taking everything he's learned from the Industry and putting 100% of it in to his solo career..........................