Kelowna native Chad Brownlee will be performing at this year's PeachFest on Aug.4, 2016. Contributed

Canadian country music star Chad Brownlee to perform at PeachFest

PENTICTON – This year's 69th annual Penticton Peach Festival has one of Canada’s hottest country talents headlining for 2016.

Canadian country music star Chad Brownlee will take to the stage in Okanagan Lake Park on Thursday, Aug. 4.

Brownlee is a five-time Canadian Country Music Awards nominee, including two nominations for Male Artist of the Year.

He won the Rising Star Award in 2011 and his latest album Love Me or Leave Me has garnered a Juno Award nomination.

Brownlee was raised in Kelowna and traded in a brief professional hockey career for one in music. He had been drafted by the Vancouver Canucks and spent four years playing in college hockey.

Jordan McIntosh, another Canadian country musician, will be opening for Brownlee. The 20-year-old was nominated for a Canadian Country Music Association Rising Star Award last year.

For further details on PeachFest, which runs from Aug. 3 to 7, check out the festival website.

To contact a reporter for this story, email Steve Arstad at sarstad@infonews.ca or call 250-488-3065. To contact the editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.

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I have been looking for news in the South Okanagan - SImilkameen for 20 years, having turned a part time lifelong interest into a full time profession. After five years publishing a local newsletter, several years working as a correspondent / stringer for several local newspapers and seven years as editor of a Similkameen weekly newspaper, I joined iNFOnews.ca in 2014. My goal in the news industry has always been to deliver accurate and interesting articles about local people and places. My interest in the profession is life long - from my earliest memories of grade school, I have enjoyed writing.
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As a member of the Kaleden community, I have been involved in the Kaleden Volunteer Fire Department for 22 years, and also serve as a trustee on the Kaleden Irrigation District board.
I am currently married to my wife Judy, of 26 years. We are empty-nesters who enjoy living in Kaleden with our Welsh Terrier, Angus, and cat, Tibbs.
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