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Welcome to Wapiti Hello and Welcome to Wapiti Music Festival. Located in beautiful British Columbia!

We are so happy to have our community come together to pull off one heck of an event like this.

At Wapiti we strive to bring the best and brightest in new Canadian indie music. Over the weekend you will hear everything from rock to blues and pop. We hope you thoroughly enjoy yourself.

Fernie is a wonderful community and this is one of the best ways to experience our Kootenay culture.

While listening and dancing this weekend, don’t forget to bring cash and try some of the delicious offerings of the food truck vendors as well as the refreshment gardens, where you will find craft beer and boutique wines.

As you all probably know, BC is dry this season. Please be aware of the fire ban and smoke only in designated areas and dispose of butts properly.

This weekend would not be possible without the effort and dedication by all the hard working volunteers. A warm and heartfelt thank you to all of them.

Chantel Souliere Board of Directors, Wapiti Music Festival.

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Schedule of Events Thursday August 6 At Arts Station Downtown Fernie 7:00 pm 8:15 pm

Saturday August 8

Hark Raving Sirens The Steadies

Friday August 7

At Fernie Annex Park 6:00 pm 7:00 pm 8:15 pm 9:45 pm

11:00 pm

Doors open Buckman Coe Reuben and the Dark The Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer Festival Closed

At Fernie Annex Park Noon 12:30 pm 2:00 pm 3:30 pm 5:00 pm 6:30 pm 8:00 pm 9:45 pm 11:00 pm

Doors Open Kirby Lovecoast Towers and Trees Close Talker Rah Rah Mounties Sherman Downey Festival Closed

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Day pricing is available.

Under 12 & Over 65 FREE!

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Annual Wapiti Music Festival The City of Fernie would like to welcome festival goers to the Annual Wapiti Music Festival and thank the many volunteers for all of their hard work and dedication in coordinating this great event for our community.

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August 7-8, 2015 Annex Park, Fernie Free Parking • Secure Bike Check

TD Kids Tent Saturday 1 to 4 Crafts. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Wapiti is pleased to provide parking at no charge for those attending the event. We also have a secure bike check and strongly encourage festivalgoers to ride their bikes or walk to the event if possible.

Safety Reminder The Elk River is a fast moving mountain river. There are no lifeguards on duty. It is recommended to avoid the river and the duck pond and watch your children at all times, especially near the water. You are at your own risk.

If you are driving please watch for the signs and volunteers directing you to the parking area inside the Annex Park. There is parking along city streets, but we ask that you respect the properties and driveways of residents and avoid blocking their access and not park on lawns. Also, please respect no parking signs where they are posted.

Food & Refreshment Vendors There is a vendor village where food trucks and vendors will tantalize your tastebuds, along side colourful craft vendors.

Fernie Brewing Company will be serving up Fernie’s best brew and wine will be served from the Gehringer Brothers Okanagan winery.

Please note that care should be taken around the festival grounds, especially after dark, as there is considerable foot and bike traffic.

Wapiti kick off party!

FREE show with

The Steadies

Opening Band ~ Hark Raving Sirens Thursday August 6th, 7:00 pm @ The Arts Station All ages, refreshment gardens.

Ticket sales and merch will be available for sale.

Join us for a great start to a fun weekend!

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August 7-8, 2015 Annex Park, Fernie Buckman Coe – Folk Soul Reggae Vancouver BC Bridging the worlds of roots, soul, and reggae, Buckman Coe is a passionate believer in the power of music to shape the future. His sunkissed folk; gospel-tinged soul; intoxicating world-beat melodies, and psychedelic rock sensibility all play a part in providing the sonic platform for Coe’s soulful and conscious lyrics.

“Goddamn if this slice of blues-basted Americana doesn’t make a great case that he just rode in on the rails from Tupelo, Mississippi” Georgia Straight buckmancoe.com

Close Talker – alt rock, pop Saskatoon – SK Close Talker the exalted, young, indie-rock quartet from Saskatoon recently announced their second full-length album, Flux, will be released on November 4 via Nevado Music. Recorded over three weeks, during the spring of this year at Montreal’s Breakglass Studio with Jace Lasek (Land Of Talk, Suuns, Young Galaxy), while the Canadiens were in the throws of their playoff run, the 10 tracks are the first the band has done with an outside producer.

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Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer – blues rock, Vancouver BC In reality, Shawn ‘The Harpoonist’ Hall and Matthew ‘The Axe Murderer’ Rogers evoke much more than just grisly nautical imagery. Armed with an arsenal of harmonicas and a mess of foot percussion the duo kick out raw and primal blues while infusing with a jolt of renewed energy.

Their memorable name is inspired by a lyric from Kris Kristofferson’s ‘Bobby McGee’ that references the blues harp, (‘I took my harpoon out of my dirty red bandana’) and ‘axe’, a common term for the guitar.

Their influences range from the iconic songwriting of Willie Dixon to the boundary pushing of Jack White, but their sound is distinctly their own. harpoonistaxemurderer.com

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Kirby – singer songwriter, alt pop, Burlington Ontario After fronting Burlington, Ontario prog-rock band ‘First Time Fallen’ for several years, Kirby decided to go solo, releasing his first solo EP “Within These Walls” in 2007 before taking the figurative plunge with his next EP “The Good Fight”, in 2008. Hitting the road for the first of many solo tours across Canada and performing in Australia over the last six years his first full band release “Into The Dark” in 2011, displayed his true passion, belting out emotional lyrics right from the bottom of his heart.

Lovecoast – rnb soul, pop Vancouver BC Lovecoast is a young band with old soul, creating West Coast inspired Indie R&B/Soul Pop. Formed in 2013, Lovecoast’s four members came together through unanticipated fate years after their University graduation. Now based out of Vancouver BC the band has cultivated a live show that is dance driven and highly energetic, garnering comparisons to acts such as Hey Ocean! and Lake Street Dive. lovecoastmusic.com

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Mounties – Vancouver BC, alt rock, new wave Hawksley Workman is a six-time nominated and two-time Juno award winning musician, producer and multiinstrumentalist, Steve Bays is the main songwriter and front man of Hot Hot Heat, Ryan Dahle, the brains behind indie stalwarts Limblifter and Age of Electric.

If you tried to draw a chalk line joining the birthplaces of Hawksley Workman, Steve Bays, and Ryan Dahle—all of them prominently Canadian, all from separate corners of this enormous country—well, you couldn’t. It’s too big.

Here’s another thing that’s big: “Headphones”, the deliriously catchy first single from Mounties, a band that started as a chance meeting between the three men at the 2009 Juno Awards, and became a spectacular, improvised two week recording session three years later.

Rah Rah – alt rock Regina SK Autumn 2012* sees the release of The Poet’s Dead, the third and most accomplished album to date by Regina, SK sextet Rah Rah. Building on the strong foundation of their last release, the critically acclaimed and iTunes Canada championed Breaking Hearts, this new ten song effort effectively captures a band at the peak of their abilities doing what they do best.

New Album out Sept 15 2015.

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Reuben and the Dark – alt rock, Calgary AB

Sherman Downey folk, bluegrass Corner Brook Newfoundland Since releasing his debut album, Honey for Bees, in 2010, Sherman Downey has been diligent in carving out a spot within the Canadian music scene. It wasn’t long after the first album dropped that Sherman was invited to represent his home province of Newfoundland & Labrador at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games. Sherman was honoured to then play at the 2010 JUNO Celebrations and has since been toiling away at getting his music into the ears of an expanding and supportive fan base.

Calgary’s Reuben and the Dark is a collection of five multi-instrumentalists and vocalists led by Reuben Bullock.

The group makes chilling, emotive folk and soul driven by dark, introspective lyrics that explore the duality of misery and joy. Boasting a rare chemistry between all members across western Canada, Reuben and the Dark has emerged organically from Canada’s stellar independent scene on the strength of often anthemic compositions that translate the language of emotion into song with haunting clarity.

Their debut album is produced by the UK’s Chris Hayden (Florence & the Machine) and Canada’s Stephen Kozmeniuk (Madonna, Nicki Minaj, and The Game feat Kanye West) and is being mixed by Jim Abbiss (Arctic Monkeys, Adele).

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Towers and Trees – folk rock, Victoria BC Towers and Trees are an indie rock collective from Victoria, BC with a rich, anthemic sound and thoughtful songwriting that harkens to groups like Hey Rosetta, The Arcade Fire and Coldplay. With its roots as a home recording project by singer/songwriter Adrian Chalifour, the original vision of Towers and Trees was simply to rediscover the joy of creating and sharing music, free of any pressure, measure or expectation.

“One of the greatest shows I have ever witnessed, full stop… front to back: performance, charisma, personality, conviction.” ~ Jon Williams, the Zone 91.3. towersandtreesmusic.com

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