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 Lethbridge’s largest outdoor festival, features 9 hours of live music and entertainment. This year’s Jamboree will see 1,500 students filing into the “Grove”, complete with two stages, beer gardens, vendors and the most fun that can be had at the University of Lethbridge. Be sure to get there once gates open at 2pm for optimal fun in the sun!!

3-3:45— the Acoustic Rhymers (folk) The Acoustic Rhymers
aka Aaron & Jeff

3:45-4:30— Mike Maguire (pop) Check out www.mikemaguiremusic.ca to stay updated on upcoming performances and other media. 

Many artists struggle to establish their musical identity, trying all types of musical styles looking for a way to get their message across. Others emerge fully formed, in full command of their craft, their identity and their music. In a time where ITunes and singles overshadow the journey that a full length album should take a listener on, Mike Maguire’s new self -titled debut album emerges as a full body of work that takes listeners on a journey that everyone can relate to.
In 2009 Maguire released his first album "Things Unsaid" which was very acoustically driven. After realizing that making music was his main goal, he began to showcase his talent in various venues across Alberta. During this time, Maguire played numerous gigs making sure that his name and music were being heard by as many people as possible. Mike often played to audiences upwards of400 people.
Mike's ability to entertain crowds in a versatile manner is evident in his capability to play with a full band in which he commands the acoustic guitar and piano, or organically on his own accompanied by his guitar and loop pedal.
"I love the way that playing my music live makes me feel. It is a whole new experience and a nice change from playing to my stairwell." Maguire jokes.
Maguire’s self- titled debut album is set to be released in the Spring of 2013.
The concept behind this album "is really hard to explain or put into words. I guess the best way to explain it is life as I hear it in my head."
Maguire's wide use of instrumentation and sounds that are not heard on other mainstream albums, make this album stand out from many others. Maguire plays many of the instruments on this album.
"My producer (Brad Lang) really let me take the reins on the album, and I was able to put a lot of creative style into it, and was able to change it as I saw fit. This ended up in us creating a deep body of work, which sounded nothing like the original!" Maguire laughs.
After graduating from University, Maguire had an opportunity to travel. Maguire was able to backpack to almost 20 countries. While travelling, he was immersed in different cultures throughout the world, many of which inspired him to write songs such as "From Where you are" which was written on the Tarmac at a small airport outside Tel Aviv. "Wherever I travelled, I tried to immerse myself in the thick of things, hopin’ to Hell I'd learn somethin' or at least make it out alive"!
Conceptually, from the opening notes of "Words of Weapons", the album's first single, Maguire's relevant writing ability and unique sound is strikingly apparent.
Songs like "Don't lie to me" and "Wish you were me" give a real and raw insight into "politically incorrect" feelings following a breakup that are real and valid, but often left unspoken.
Perhaps one of the most honest and intrinsic tracks "Let Go My Soul" is a poweful and heavy hearted piano driven ballad Mike wrote after watching several of his family members "fall from grace" while battling with terminal illness.
"I write songs when I need to get something off my chest. It's a way for me to spew it out in all of its rawness. Then I'm able to leave it on the paper, and the rest of the time I can be OK with things."
Maguire's ability to hook the listener is presented in "Live it right" and "Take a Chance" which are inspirational and upbeat. The Whiny electric guitar and raspy vocals in "City Lights" showcases Maguire's wide musical range and vocal ability, while the haunting piano in "The move is mine" keep the listener engaged throughout the song.
The album ends as powerful as it started with the last track "Shine". With intense symphonic musicianship and penetrating lyrics he recalls, "Working with teens has helped me put life into perspective and see how cruel and unfair it can sometimes be... but there is a resiliency in people that shows up at the most unexpected moments... that is the inspiration, passion and drive behind "Shine" and the other tracks on the record."
Mike is already writing and polishing tracks for his third album. He will be promoting the album upon its release. Mike is all set to start a Western Canadian tour promoting his self -titled debut album.

4:30-5:30— Delhi2 Dublin (dance/ rock/ world) http://www.delhi2dublin.com

We are from Vancouver BC. We invented the genre 'celtic punjabi electronica' which sounds pretty dumb on paper, but is actually super badass. We play really LOUD party music, so don't invite us over for 'that ethnic feel' at your next cocktail part cause 'that ethnic feel' will slap your guests straight upside the bhangra muscle.
Many people like us, from little kids to grannies. seriously, our shows are like scenes from an alternate dimension where people are nice to each other and everything's ok. Delhi 2 Dublin is way more indie than all those other indie bands cause some of us are actually from India. Our latest full length album is dope. It has a big skull with lotus flower eyes and a volume control for a third eye. It's called 'Turn Up The Stereo' and it came out last year. We play a lot of shows. Like 150 a year. We don't wear any crazy costumes, but we do play some freaky instruments and jump around in a synchronized manner. Actually a lot of our show consists of people jumping around and yelling and sometimes stage diving in canoes. Listen, watch, party with us and be happy.

Delhi 2 Dublin was a happy accident born out of Vancouver's Celtic Fest in 2006. Their sound started as an electronic fusion between bhangra beats and Celtic fiddle and has since grown into anything from dub reggae to breaks to just straight up happy dance music. File under… best. 

Founded by Tarun Nayar (of Beats Without Borders cred), Sanjay Seran (at the time hailing from live bhangra act Signia), and Ravi Binning (a professionally trained bhangra dancer and dhol player), the band started kicking ass on stages across North America, with violinist extremist Kytami and sitar/guitar hero Andrew Kim. 

Releasing their first full-length album out within a year of their inception, it was obvious D2D had something people wanted. Word spread about their ridiculously energetic live show, and tours grew from regular jaunts across the country and down through the States, to include festival performances in Europe, Asia and Australia. The band kept up with the pace, producing a new album bi-annually and a remix album alternating years. 

With seven albums out, 2014 has Delhi 2 Dublin releasing their very first, and much anticipated, LIVE album, recorded at the iconic Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, BC on their 8th birthday. This year also brings about more additions to the D2D touring family: Serena Eades joins on violin (in lieu of fiddle player Sara Fitzpatrick starting a family of her own!) and James Hussain on guitar. Jaron Freeman-Fox continues being a featured guest at select shows, along with former member Andrew Kim. 
Described by one magazine as the “United Nations of rock ‘n’ roll”, Delhi 2 Dublin has become one of Canada’s most buzzed-about bands, and this was not just a happy accident – see for yourself what everyone's been dancing about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU_2Aby8p00

Discography:
2008 – Delhi 2 Dublin
2009 – Remixed
2010 – Planet Electric
2011 – Planet: Electrified
2011 – Delhi 2 Dubland
2012 – Turn Up The Stereo
2014 – Turn Up The Stereo: Remixed
2014 – Delhi 2 Dublin: LIVE


THE BAND:
Official members:
Tarun Nayar – tabla, electronics
Sanjay Seran – vocals
Ravi Binning – dhol, dholak

Live performers:
Andrew Kim – electric sitar, guitar
James Hussain – guitar
Serena Eades – violin
Jaron Freeman-Fox – violin, guitar

5:30-6:30— Go For the Eyes (rock) https://soundcloud.com/gofortheeyes/sets/fifteen-through-twenty-unreleased

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Members Jeff Turner (Vocals/Guitar) Elise Roller (Vocals/Keys) Scott Perrin (Bass) Nathan Raboud (Drums) 

Perhaps it’s the various musical backgrounds of its members that makes Go For The Eyes’ hybrid-blues rock sound so interesting- you can’t put your finger on it but ‘there’s no confusion, just rich, deep, heavy, velvet red rock that leaves a catchy lasting impression like a lipstick kiss.’ (Mike Bell, Calgary Herald).

“We’ve been working for half a decade to perfect our sound,” says Jeff Turner (vocals/guitar), “It took losing a member, disowning a whole album, and going through months of writer’s block and research for us to finally find our soul.”

The transitional year proves to have been a silent morning bell. They awakened in March 2013 with the release of Six Through Twelve, an EP which earned them rave reviews across the country, an explosion of tour dates, and a number of high-profile shows including opening slots for Moist and The Trews, a performance at the Calgary Stampeders’ Labour Day Classic halftime show, and the Flames’ home opener.

“This album is just more grown up,” explains Elise Roller (vocals, keys), “It’s about love, conscience, and mostly sex. No whining, no bullshit,” which seems to be the reason why many classic rock enthusiasts are latching on to this raw yet refined act. As music writer Lee Mellor illustrates, “Go For The Eyes is a band who truly understands the concept that it’s not what you play it’s how you play it.”

Finally putting on their big-kid pants with Six Through Twelve, nothing speaks more of the new-found adult nature than their magnetic live show. Sounding as though their voices were harvested from the same bloodline, Turner and Roller are an irresistibly seductive pair.

With the first successful release under their belts, Go For The Eyes will be returning to the studio in March 2014 to record a new EP, Fifteen Through Twenty, with award-winning producer Kirill Telichev. As Turner explains, “I have only one goal in music: to raise the standards.” With this in mind the band has turned their mosaic of influences into a melting pot of genre-spanning domination- and they are ready to change the face of Canadian Music.

6:30-7:30— the Dudes (rock) http://thedudesmusic.ca/

The Dudes, a Calgary-based band, infuse an emotional blend of Al Green and Flaming Lips – soul music and early 1990′s distortion. Dan Vacon, singer-songwriter for The Dudes since their start in the late 90′s, has the ability to draw audiences in through his distinct vocal style – a mixture of strong pop melody, sly double entendres, and pure soul.
The Dudes have produced several lo-fi releases since their inception, however their last musical offering, “Brain Heart Guitar”, propelled them from the Calgary independent music scene (where they were voted Calgary’s ‘Favourite Band of 2006, 2007 and 2008′ by FFWD Readers) into a more national spotlight, and spread their understanding of true rock and roll soul.  The Dudes toured across Canada numerous times since the release of ‘Brain Heart Guitar’, with the likes of Pride Tiger, Two Hours Traffic, Hot Hot Heat and Finger 11. As well as showcasing at festivals like Halifax Pop Explosion, Pop Montreal, NXNE, Canadian Music Week, The Canadian Junos,  and the West Coast Music Awards.

Recently signing to UK label One Four Seven Records for a 2008 UK/Europe release of ‘Brain Heart Guitar’, the band recently finished 2 promotional tours of those regions in 2008, and is now receiving an influx of positive reviews for the album by European blogs and magazines.

Brain Heart Guitar was released in 2007. The band’s second album, Blood Guts Bruises Cuts was released in 2009.

 7:30-8:30— Dirty Radio (hip Hop) http://www.dirtyradio.ca

Alternative Pop, RnB, Dance, Hip-Hop

8:30-9:45 —Lights (Hip Hop) https://www.facebook.com/lights

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When electro-rock sensation Lights first hit the music scene in 2008, she was just a songwriter with a synth and a dream. Her name may have been pluralized but Lights Poxleitner was a one-woman show who played and programmed her own instruments and sang her own lyrics.

Lyrically, Siberia is light years from her last, which was written when the singer, who spent much of her childhood travelling to places like the Philippines and Jamaica with her missionary parents, had left the nest and landed in Toronto. “A lot of those songs came from a sad but hopeful place. I was alone and pondering a lot. I’m a lot more aware of the person I am now and each of these songs is about an experience I’ve gone through,” she says. “This record came from a very happy place.”

Siberia‘s beats skitter and thwack, the retro electronics fire like decomposing lasers and the analog synths dirty up her trademark pretty melodies, propelling Lights’ emotion-soaked but still-cute croon into her sprawling, imperfect new sound.
Call it anti-electro, dream-step or perhaps even grit-pop. Whatevs. Just rest assured that it’s the same bright Lights; she’s just built herself a bigger city.

9:45-11p.m,: Keys N Krates (Hip Hop) http://www.keysnkrates.com
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Keys N Krates formed as the brainchild of drummer Adam Tune, synth/keyboard aficionado David Matisse and internationally award-winning turntablist Jr. Flo. The Toronto trio came together in 2008 with the desire to bring their blend of live electronic instrumentation to the stage.

They've often been referred to as the worlds only "trap band," a title they reluctantly accept. Tune says it best: "At the end of the day, people are going to call us whatever they want. We are referencing everything from classic house music to Timbaland in our beats, but I think the trap references tap into what the current sound is, and we are okay with that."

Having toured their unique blend of hip hop and bass music extensively across North America, Keys N Krates put out a slew of original music in 2013. Their most recent body of work, titled SOLOW EP, was released via Steve Aoki's Dim Mak Records in September 2013.

The EP features KNK's banger "Treat Me Right," which launched with the support of figureheads like Diplo, Major Lazer, Flosstradamus, and TNGHT. It went to number one on Hype Machine, continues to chart on the Beatport Hip Hop Chart, and remains a fixture in DJ sets and car stereos across the globe.

Premiered by Annie Mac on BBC Radio1, their second single off SOLOW EP, "Dum Dee Dum," experienced a similar kind of success on the charts and has solidified the trio as creators of anthemic party music with a quickly growing fan base.

KNK has since explored their love for rap music by creating a remix of "Dum Dee Dum." Featuring G.O.O.D. Music's Cyhi The Prynce, King Louie, and Tree, the track has received glowing reviews from the likes of Fader Magazine, Vice Mag, and NahRight. "We had so much fun doing that rap remix," says Flo. "We can't wait to work with more rappers and vocalists in general."

Perhaps what truly separates Keys N Krates from the mass of Electronic and Hip Hop producers out there is the unique show they create by performing their bassy beats as a band, completely live. When you go to a KNK show, you will see their music and the music of others morphed and turned on it's head using only drums, keys, turntables and live sampling. This unique style creates not only a crazy dance party, but an experience and vibe like no other.

As a result, KNK have found themselves playing some of the world's largest Festivals, including Lollapalooza, Electric Zoo, Ultra Music Festival, Osheaga, and Sonar Festival (to name a few.) As Matisse says, "Our favourite thing is playing live and bringing people into our world."