CANADA’S WESTERN SWING PARTY

PRAIRIE OYSTER

Friday, June 6th - Theatre Show Lounge @ Cascades Casino
20393 Fraser Highway, Langley (604 530 2211) – Tickets $20 (Plus GST) from Casino guest services

The LIVENIGHTS music series and Country 107.1 presents Canada’s longest running western swing party, PRAIRIE OYSTER, in concert on Friday, June 6th in the Theatre Show Lounge at the Cascades Casino in Langley. Advance tickets are available for $20 (plus GST) from Casino Guest Services.

PRAIRIE OYSTER has been performing since the mid seventies and is a band that takes ‘a while’ to put out an album, because once it is out there, it has to have enough sweet juice to last till the next album. They were six years between the last two albums but their latest release One Kiss (2006 Open Road Records) is their eighth album and the band moves with ease from traditional country and western swing to bluegrass, rock ‘n roll, blues, Tex-Mex and gospel. So far the album has produced three singles; "Sweet Sweet Girl to Me" (written and originally recorded by Don Gibson), "Too Bad For Me," and a cover of Bob Dylan's "I Threw It All Away."

PRAIRIE OYSTER originally formed in 1975 as a trio consisting of lead singer/bassist Russell de Carle, guitarist Keith Glass, and steel guitar player Denis Delorme, performing on television and playing live shows but never recording. In the early eighties they took on fiddle player John P. Allen and keyboardist/songwriter Joan Besen. It took until the early nineties to finally be ‘discovered’ by Nashville and the resulting first album Different Kind Of Fire (RCA 1990), took them on a journey which has earned them hit singles and platinum records and a tally of six Juno Awards, eleven Canadian Country Music Awards and fourteen RPM Big Country Awards.

The LIVE NIGHTS music series and Country 107.1 presents the one and only PRAIRIE OYSTER in concert on Friday, June 6th in the Theatre Show Lounge at the Cascades Casino in Langley. Advance tickets are available for $20 (plus GST) from Casino Guest Services or at the door at 20393 Fraser Highway, Langley (604 530 2211). Doors open at 7PM. Show at 8PM.