Ringo Starr coming to Penticton in October

After a two-year delay because of COVID, Ringo Star and His All Starr Band are resuming their touring this spring and fall and will make a stop in Penticton Oct. 9.

The show will be at the South Okanagan Events Centre with tickets going on sale, starting at $79.50, as of 10 a.m. tomorrow, April 12.

Tickets can be purchased online at ValleyFirstTix.com or at the box office at the entertainment centre. VIP packages are also available online.

Since the pandemic, Star has released two EPs, “Zoom In” and “Change the World” as well as two books.

The band includes Steve Lukather, Colin Hay, Warren Ham, Gregg Bissonette, Hamish Stuart and Edgar Winter.

The band will play seven dates in Canada. Along with Penticton, it will be in Lethbridge on Oct. 6 and Abbotsford on Oct. 8.


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Rob Munro

Rob Munro

Rob Munro has a long history in journalism after starting an underground newspaper in Whitehorse called the Yukon Howl in 1980. He spent five years at the 100 Mile Free Press, starting in the darkroom, moving on to sports and news reporting before becoming the advertising manager. He came to Kelowna in 1989 as a reporter for the Kelowna Daily Courier, and spent the 1990s mostly covering city hall. For most of the past 20 years he worked full time for the union representing newspaper workers throughout B.C. He’s returned to his true love of being a reporter with a special focus on civic politics