The city is lining up the spring music and comedy dates. There is a busy schedule forming for the weeks ahead at various local watering holes and cafes, and a hot string of headline shows is set for the gaps between Cougars games at CN Centre.
Tickets to these special events are available at Studio 2880, the CN Centre box office, and online via the Ticketmaster website.
Here is the events list for the biggest room in the city:
A one-two-three combination of punches is coming under the banner of the Queens of Sheba tour. Two of those punches have landed on the chin of the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. Rock legends Heart, punk-rock icon Joan Jett & The Blackhearts and Canadian power-rocker Serena Pryne & The Mandevilles are bringing the guitar thunder on March 10.
Michael Flatley is playing Dangerous Games. The latest Lord of the Dance production comes to
CN Centre on March 27 at 7:30 p.m. The show stars James Keegan, Morgan Comer, Mathew Smith, Cathal Keaney, Fergal Keaney and Andras Kren as the "Lords of the Dance" and is choreographed and directed by Flatley.
Country singers Gord Bamford and Joe Nichols co-headline their Certified Country tour, along with special guests Washboard Union. They perform at CN Centre on April 12 at 7:30 p.m. After a spate of country shows squeezed into a tight calendar space, this is the only one on the horizon for awhile, so twang fans should have this date circled.
Northern B.C.'s first and only fan convention happens on the May 13-15 weekend at CN Centre and the adjoining Kin Centre complex. Comic books, video games, movies, TV shows, music, art, collectibles, cosplay and all things popular-culture get to run wild at Northern FanCon. Just some of this year's celebrity guests include Captain Canuck (the animated series voice, Kris Holden-Reid, and the comic book creative team), Jay Mewes (Clerks, Mallrats, Jay & Silent Bob), Candice Patton from The Flash, Brett Dalton from Agents of SHIELD, and Levar Burton from Star Trek: The Next Generation, the groundbreaking miniseries Roots, and children's favourite show Reading Rainbow.
One of P.G.'s favourites is coming back by popular demand. George Thorogood & The Destroyers come back to Prince George and this time they aren't coming alone. They are bad to the bone and ready to return to CN Centre on April 19 along with special guest performer The Ben Miller Band. Miller is tearing up the southern rock category right now, and he's aligning himself with the original road dawg Thorogood.
Some hometown hero action hits the CN Centre stage on May 16 when local boy Dave Rosin and his mates in Hedley come for their Hello World tour. But also on the bill is another attraction in her own rite, one of Canada's most significant pop success stories of the new era, Carly Rae Jepsen (Call Me Maybe, I Really Like You, Good Time duet with Owl City, the reboot of the Full House TV theme song, etc.). That's still not the end, though. Hedley is also featuring special guest Francesco Yates, the young blue-eyed R&B sensation who has shot hits up the charts like Better To Be Loved, the Robin Schulz duet Sugar, Call and Nobody Like You.
City and Colour is the personal band project of acclaimed singer, songwriter and performer Dallas Green. Green is also a big part of rock unit Alexisonfire and was half the duo You + Me with megastar Pink. He brings his City And Colour tour to Prince George on June 5. It is the live presentation of his latest album If I Should Go Before You.
Along with Green will be supporting act Shakey Graves. Graves is a buzz-talent out of Austin, Texas, who lays down layers of blues, alt-country, rock and Americana music.
