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TransAlta Mainstage Shows for 2009
Powered by Campbell’s Music Here is a list of all of the shows for the TransAlta Mainstage.
Time: 7:00 p.m.
“I have the weirdest career in the world, a little tiny career that works so well,” Eaglesmith concludes of the artistic niche he has carved out for himself. “I’m just so lucky and so fortunate, I try not to take it for granted.” Friday, August 7
Pavlo sent his first CD, self-entitled Pavlo to countless record labels. One by one, they all turned him down. Pavlo was left alone to self-promote his music and his style. He performed all over North America. No venue was too little, or too far-fetched. Pavlo played in cafes, craft shows, festivals, churches, it didn’t matter, if there was someone listening, he was there, whole-heartedly. Pavlo sold thousands of records from the trunk of his car in those early days. He never hoped to sell millions of copies. His dream back then, was to simply sell enough to justify making a second album, so that he might continue performing. When Pavlo recorded Fantasia, it was the first time in his working life that he realized he was on the right path, and made a promise to himself to stay on course. The album went Gold in Canada, and was nominated for Best Instrumental Album of the Year at the 2000 Juno Awards. Since then, Pavlo has released seven albums and has toured the world. Friday, August 7 SKYDIGGERS
Saturday,
August 8
“As for the band's name, it was the first car I remember my Dad having as a kid on Claremont St. in Halifax,” reflected band member Rod Were. “It was a 1969 Metallic Blue Mercury Montego with a white roof. A real land yacht… I remember that AM radio burning tunes as I tried to look over the dash”
So sit back as we fire up the Montego's V8 and rumble along on big white walls, with a trunk full of beer and gear. The radio is always cranked to a station playing everything from The Band to Merle Haggard, JJ Cale to Stax, and CCR with a little Lightfoot thrown in for good measure. We hope you enjoy as we twist and turn along the back roads.
Saturday,
August 8
Her career began with a six-song EP entitled Building 55 in 1999. By the fall of the next year she was on tour across Canada managing her own gigs. In 2001, she wrote seven of the ten songs for her 2003 debut release Failer. Rolling Stone declared her to be one of the year’s most promising new acts while the New York Times praised Edwards as a writer whose songs can "pare situations down to a few dozen words while they push country-rock towards its primal impulses of thump and twang." In 2006, she was nominated for Juno Awards for Songwriter of the Year and Adult Alternative Album of the Year for the universally adored Back to Me. Her most recent album is Asking For Flowers, described by critics as her finest work yet. She has played on Austin City Limits, opened for Willie Nelson, John Prine, Aimee Mann, My Morning Jacket, John Mayer and Bryan Adams. She was invited to perform at Farm Aid ( and cried when Neil Young played “Old Man”), played the Grand Old Opry, and had a song in Cameron Crowe’s Elizabethtown. She is Kathleen Edwards and we are honoured to have her perform at interPLAY. Saturday, August 8
Get ready to “Pump Up the Jam”, “Incognito” and “Straight Up” as The Lost Fingers get Lost in the 80’s at interPLAY. |
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Presents 
“Have the courage to do what you love, and the drive to do it well.” These were the words a good father once spoke to his aspiring son.
The Skydiggers recently released The Truth About Us - a twenty-year retrospective album featuring 22 songs remastered from the original session tapes and tributes from Jim Cuddy, Sarah Harmer, and Gord Downie. The band’s impact on Canadian music has been substantial.
Kathleen Edwards grew up a child of diplomats, living in places as far removed from Canada as you can go, Korea and Switzerland. Geographically separated from the mainstream, Edward’s musical proclivities were shaped by luminaries like Neil Young and Bob Dylan. 
The Lost Fingers is the breakaway gypsy jazz band from Quebec City featuring Alex Morissette (backing vocals, double bass), Dr. Christian Roberge also know as “Dirt” (lead vocals, guitar) and Byron “Maiden” Mikaloff (backing vocals, guitar). Their 2008 debut album, Lost in the 80’s, earned platinum certification for sales of 100,000 within Quebec alone. In Canadian sales, this album was second only to Nickelback’s Dark Horse. The band’s name was inspired by gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt who lost the use of two fingers following a fire. The Lost Fingers earned two Juno Award nominations this year for Fan Choice Award and Album of the Year.