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No Nap Records presents another night of sizzling country swing tunes in the huge Falkland Hall — the unmissable top old style act of East Vancouver’s Petunia and the Vipers come back to the Okanagan Sept. 28 to set your dancing feet and soul on fire.
You cannot break the rules if you do not understand the rules. Petunia and the Vipers’ sound is a familiar and yet wholly new music for that reason: they intimately understand the rules of classic Americana music and where the edges of that painting lie, and they refuse to paint inside of the lines at any time,” said Sian Macleod of No Nap Records. “This is a new and modern band playing unadulterated, unclassified, unleashed sounds that rhyme with older sounds of the past, and are furiously driving the future wave of a new idiom.”
Supporting Petunia and the Vipers is local group Mice in the Honeybucket, a Coldstream Coffee House favourite who recently opened for the Company B Jazz Band at the Caetani Cultural Centre.
The Okanagan-based ragtime trio — now including mandolin from Liam McIvor — Meagan May and Plain Jane share their upbeat and comical renditions of jugband, ragtime and street jazz style music from the southern states.
Hosted in the beautiful heritage hall right on Highway 97 in Falkland, the 300 capacity wooden Opry- style dance hall with cafe and washroom facilities, right across from the pubs and restaurants, corner stores, is easy to find and halfway from everywhere.
Doors at 7 p.m., music shortly thereafter. All ages are welcome. Tickets are available at the door for $15 for adults, $10 for students and $25 for family (two adults and kids).
The local Falkland motel and Airbnbs are all offering specials — rooms as low as $30 a night Thursday. Contact no.nap.records@gmail.com for more information.