The Calgary Police Pipe Band and Calgary Stampede Showband will both be performing in Portland during the “Concert in the Park,” part of the city’s annual Rose Festival.
Both bands will be part of a marching band extravaganza at PGE Park on June 6. Get the details here.
Entries from May 2008
May 31, 2008
Calgary puts on a show at the Rose Festival
May 31, 2008
Stars on stamps
You don’t get to lick ‘em anymore, but you can still stick ‘em: Canada Post recently announced that four Canadian performers will be featured on postage stamps next year. Those to be honoured include Bryan Adams, Edith Butler, Robert Charlebois, and Stompin’ Tom Connors.
The stamps are part of the Canadian Recording Artists series. Issues in [...]
May 28, 2008
Ahh … Alanis
OK, this might be a bit old news, but we’ve got some catching up to do.
Remember a year ago (or was it two?) when everybody and their brother was making cover videos of the Black Eyed Peas’ “My Humps”? Well it seems that Canada’s very own Alanis Morissette was part of that bandwagon. But her [...]
May 15, 2008
Welcome!/Bienvenue!
Welcome to NW CanCon, the ultimate source for information about Canadian bands and musicians performing in the Pacific Northwest.
A Canadian expat, I’ve been in the U.S. since 2002. I love living in Portland. But that doesn’t mean I don’t miss certain things about Canada … HNIC, Tim’s, Loonies, and Canadian music, to name a few. [...]
