West Kelowna Kicks Off World Music Festival

Enjoy free, family entertainment at West Kelowna World Music Festival Saturday, August 22 from 5 to 9:30 p.m.

World Music Festival will feature:
5:00 p.m. – Stan Jack (WFN Dancer)
5:30 p.m. – Sister Speak (Folk Duo)
7:00 p.m. – Ezra Kwizera (African Reggae)
8:15 p.m. – Mazacote (Latin/Salsa Dance)

Kids of all ages will enjoy over a dozen interactive activities at the Interior Savings Kids Zone including an obstacle course, face painting, a petting zoo and martial arts demonstrations. There will be displays from the Snc?wips Heritage Museum, Westbank Museum and Kelowna Museum as well as the Centre Cultural Francophone de l’Okanagan. Food vendors will be on site.

The City of West Kelowna and Creative Okanagan have teamed up to add World Music Festival to the summer concert schedule at Memorial Park, adjacent to Johnson Bentley Memorial Aquatic Centre. The event is being held in addition to the successful Music in the Park concerts that have been drawing up to 1,000 spectators every Friday night.

For a complete West Kelowna World Music Fest lineup, please visit West Kelowna’s homepage at www.westkelownacity.ca.

West Kelowna World Music Fest is produced and promoted by Creative Okanagan. The City of West Kelowna would like to thank the 2015 World Music Festival sponsors: Gorman Bros. Lumber, Interior Savings, Rotary Club of Westbank and Westbank First Nation and media partners: 99.9 Sun FM, Castanet and Westside Weekly.

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Howard Alexander

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Howard has been a reporter, news anchor, talk show host and news director, first in Saskatchewan and then the Okanagan.

He moved his family to Vernon in the 90s and is proud to call the Okanagan home.

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