Edmonton Festival City’s Music Festival Scene is the
“Real Thing”

Longest running Canadian
Festival, the Kiwanis Music Festival, launches a series of Edmonton
music events that highlight the city’s very real, live music scene

Edmonton, AB (PRWEB) April 1, 2010 — Whatever your
taste in music, Canada’s Festival
City Edmonton, Alberta offers a music scene renowned for being the
“real thing”. Paris is known for its jazz, country music helped to put
Nashville on the map and Seattle was known as the home of grunge, but
Edmonton offers venues for every taste in music. O’Byrne’s in Old
Strathcona or The Druid downtown feature fine, spirited Celtic folk
while The Pawn Shop on Whyte Avenue cranks out downright legendary punk
rock, and upcoming festivals.

“The music scene in Edmonton is eclectic and it’s the real thing,” says
Michael Purcell, General Manager of Blues on Whyte at the Commercial
Hotel, a landmark Edmonton
hotel celebrating 140 years as a music venue in 2012. When asked
what makes the glossy pop of TV’s American Idol different than what
happens onstage at Blues on Whyte seven nights a week, Purcell says,
“American Idol controls what you want to hear. We just give you the
real thing. Real music. That’s what the blues is. That’s why people
come here.”

One of the most interesting ways to spend a Saturday afternoon in
Edmonton is to head to the much lauded Saturday afternoon jam at Blues
on Whyte in the Old Strathcona area. From an Edmonton convention
delegate to a university professor to a lawyer or judge, music buffs
pick a table, any table and it is often said that if you don’t like the
people you’re sitting with at your table, go two tables down and you’ll
find yourself sitting with a totally different type of crowd. It is an
eclectic group noted for everyone getting along. For more on Blues o
Whyte, visit www.bluesonwhyte.ca

The longest running Canadian festival the Kiwanis Music Festival
celebrates its 102nd year from April 19 through May 4, creating over
2500 opportunities for music students, musicians and music lovers to
perform in front of a crowd and receive professional adjudication.
Crooner Robert Goulet got his start with the Kiwanis Music Festival and
the festival is just around example of music happening in Canada’s
festival city of Edmonton as the “real thing”. For more on the Kiwanis
Music Festival, visit www.edmontonkiwanis.com/musicfest/.

Other fantastically eclectic Canadian festivals featuring real live music in Edmonton
and area include the Edmonton International Jazz Festival, June 25 –
July 4, 2010, the 25th Anniversary of the Blueberry Bluegrass Country
Music Festival, July 30 – August 1, 2010, the Edmonton Folk Music
Festival, August 5 – 8, 2010 and the 12th Annual Edmonton Labatt Blues
Festival, August 20 – 22, 2010, Western Canada’s premier blues event, in
Hawrelak Park, in Edmonton’s scenic river valley, which is 22 times
larger than New York City’s famed Central Park.

For more information about Edmonton, Alberta, visit www.edmonton.com

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