Celebrate three of the longest days of the year with great music and lots of fun under a big-top tent at Marston Street and 11th Avenue SW in Swift Current, Saskatchewan.
June 17, 18 and 19, 2010
EARLY BIRD DEAL until June 1:
Individual tickets $20, Festival Pass $50
After June 1: Individual tickets $25, Festival Pass $60
FREE RIDES HOME!
Tickets at Art Gallery of Swift Current and Pharmasave
or
call Shann at (306) 778-2686, .
Changes to Parking
Due to recent rainfall and that to come, there are extremely muddy conditions at the cultural festival site on the southwest corner of the city. Parking at the Long Day's Night Music Festival both Thursday and Friday nights will be changed. We are asking that everyone parks their vehicles at Fairview Arena (101 Hayes Drive) where there will be a shuttle bus waiting to take them to the corner of Marston Street and 11th Ave SW. The road will be barricaded.
The roads will be muddy for the Mudmen, who open up the festival Thursday night at 8pm, so wear your rubber boots and bring your umbrella for the muddy walk up to the tent! We'll be keeping the tent warm and cozy for you upon arrival! The Mudmen offer a blast of Celtic energy that no one can resist!
The shuttle buses are also available to give you free rides home.
Thank-you for understanding and see you at the Long Day's Night Music Festival!
- The Mudmen - Thursday, June 17 @ 8 pm
- The Ne'er Do Wells - Friday, June 18 @ 9pm
- Souljah Fyah - Friday, June 18 @ 10 pm
Last Minute Band Change for Saturday:
- Opening Act: The Juice - Saturday, June 19 @ 9 pm
- The Dudes - Saturday, June 19 @ 10 pm
The Mudmen - Thursday, June 17 @ 8 pm
www.mudmen.ca • Mudmen on YouTube • Mudmen on MySpace
Tickets at Art Gallery of Swift Current and Pharmasave or call Shann at (306) 778-2686.
After recording and releasing their 4th studio album "The High Road", THE MUDMEN have been getting quite a lot of attention with a slight new direction in sound. The Campbell Brothers have gone right into their Scottish/Irish Celtic roots and dug up an amazing album! With each song getting the crowd dancing, singing along and drinking their faces off, "The High Road" is a blast of Celtic energy that no one can resist!
The band are best known for their singles "5 O'Clock", "Saturday", and "Drink and Fight" as well as their covers of Spirit Of The West's "Home For A Rest" 
and AC/DC's "It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Want To Rock 'N Roll)". In addition, the band's music has been featured in popular culture - their single "Lost", from Defending the Kingdom, was featured in a promotional video for the NBC television show The Black Donnellys, and their single "Animal" was featured in the soundtracks of the video games Burnout 3: Takedown and MX vs. ATV Unleashed. In 2008 Robby & Sandy Campbell were called in to help out in CBC's Hockey Night in Canada Anthem Challenge, in which they played the Bagpipes on Colin Obersts "Canadian Gold", the winning anthem.
The Ne'er Do Wells - Friday, June 18 @ 9 pm
Tickets at Art Gallery of Swift Current and Pharmasave or call Shann at (306) 778-2686.
Kamila Martel and the Ne’erDoWells are best described as a Saskatchewan original. It is a gypsy, roots-rock band with an innovative sound all its own. Led by singer/songwriter Kamila Martel, the Ne’erDoWells are a fusion and synthesis of some of Saskatoon’s finest, multi-talented and best-known musicians. Megan Lane, Eliza Doyle, Tim Vaughn, Paul Kuzbik, Finn Day-Wiggins and Steven Maier have created an astonishing genre-bending and blending new soundscape to showcase Kamila’s sweet siren voice and unmatched performance style.
The Ne’erDoWells brew an eclectic mix where dirty electric blues guitars meet sweet banjo sprinkles, while the bass slaps to dance grooves, the keyboard karate and ripping solo’s create waves and layers like an ocean full of songs haunted by sweet siren vocals, harmonies, searing slide, samples and sounds from by-gone eras. Melodic, enticing, enchanting, powerful and soulful, with enough groove to get you on your feet.
Kamila Martel, songwriter, lead vocalist and front woman for the Ne’er Do Wells, grew up on roots music in Big River, Saskatchewan ,as a third generation Métis musician. Now living in Saskatoon, which she calls the “Paris of the Prairies,” Kamila has spent the past ten years developing as a singer/songwriter on a solo level, as the front woman of the Saskatoon-based band, the Cracker Cats and now as the leader of The Ne’erDoWells.
Kamila has toured extensively throughout Canada and Europe playing key festivals and venues on the East and West coasts, in the Northwest Territories and Yukon and numerous music festivals.
Over the years, Kamila has shared the stages with the likes of Mary Flower, Neko Case, Carolyn Mark, Bocephus King, Crooked Creek, The Good Brothers, The Sadies, Fred Eaglesmith, Willie P. Bennet, The Swiftys, Nathan Rodgers, Big Dave Maclean, Morgan Davis, The D. Rangers, Romi Mayes, and Rae Spoon, Eileen Laverty and Joel Fafard, Little Miss Higgins, and the Deep Dark Woods.
Throughout this time, Kamila has remained an ambassador for Saskatchewan music. She has showcased and attended workshops and conferences as a delegate at the Canadian Music Week, the Juno’s, the Saskatchewan Country Music Awards, Western Canadian Music Awards, the Toronto Blues Summit and the Maple Blues Awards.
As well as collaborating with other musicians in her bands, the Cracker Cats and the Ne’er Do Wells, Kamila has performed extensively as a solo artist at venues such as The SaskMusic 20th Anniversary party, The Ness Creek Music Festival, The Saskatoon Blues and Saskatchewan Jazz Festivals, and throughout North, Central and South America in search of new inspiration, contacts, markets and music lovers for her work.
Through Kamila’s smoldering vocals and haunting original material, the Ne’erDoWells deliver raw, captivating, emotionally charged and passionate performances. While blues and jazz do the tango, Kamila and the Ne’erDoWells twist bluegrass into gypsy blackgrass, turn gospel towards modern soul, kick in high energy punk and lace it all up with love and lust.
After performing and touring together for a year, Kamila Martel and the Ne’erDoWells are ready to record, release and promote the music that has been bringing audiences to their feet wherever the band plays.
Like a red rebel band of gypsies: passionate, inspired and infectiously full of danceable, musical fun, Kamila Martel and the Ne’erDoWells are sure to be seen in the future, shining on many more stages as they wander the world.
Souljah Fyah - Friday, June 18 @ 10 pm
www.souljahfyah.com • Souljah Fyah on YouTube • Souljah Fyah on MySpace
Tickets at Art Gallery of Swift Current and Pharmasave or call Shann at (306) 778-2686.
Souljah Fyah is a high-energy female fronted Reggae band out of Edmonton with a wicked stage show. Janaya "Sista J" Ellis is the lead vocalist and bassist, and the group is packed solid with multi talanted reggae musicians.
In November 2009, Janaya was awarded AVENUE magazine's Top 40 under 40 Edmontonians “for bringing the world of Reggae to our city, and exporting it around the world”. She also received Global TV's Woman of Vision award in March 2007 as well as the Big Miller Award for music achievement for her work in building Edmonton's music scene.
Souljah Fyah's new 2009 Single "Tears of a Fool" is currently (October 2009) charting at #5 on CBC's Galaxie Jammin' Charts. Released July 25th, it is both a lamentation and a rally of strength for a 
mother who is a victim of domestic violence. It has been generously received by campus and community radio across Canada, and is currently featured on Earshot-Online.com. The "B-Side" is a dancehall celebration of our short Canadian summers titled "Eight Days of Summer". (Recorded at Sound Extractor Studios, Edmonton, Alberta)
Souljah Fyah's sophomore CD (produced by IBO at Smokey Room Productions) "Truth Will Reveal" dropped on February 9th, 2008. From that album, the first single "Sweet Love" reached #1 on CBC Galaxie Radio in 2008 (Canadian Reggae) and is listed in the top 3 international reggae releases in'08 by Stephen Neale. In addition, "Truth Will Reveal" climbed to #1 across Canada (Earshot-Online.com) charting nationally in the top ten for 7 weeks (International Chart).
With the passionate single "Rwanda" featured on Ziggy Marley's "Ziggy Radio" in 2008, and the single "Abundance of Good" charting #1 Canada-wide for 12 weeks (CBC Galaxie Radio, 2007), people are starting to talk about Souljah Fyah.
*Last Minute Band Change for Saturday*
Due to unforeseen circumstances, we had a last minute cancellation from our Saturday night band, but we've pulled through and found another amazing band to take their place! 
Opening Act: The Juice
Saturday, June 19 @ 9 pm
The Juice is four young men from Edmonton, Alberta who love playing music together.
The Dudes - Saturday, June 19 @ 10 pm
www.wearethedudes.com • The Dudes on YouTube • The Dudes on MySpace
Tickets at Art Gallery of Swift Current and Pharmasave or call Shann at (306) 778-2686.
The dudes are legit. They make rock songs that come from the most closely guarded vaults of the emotional banks. They sing about the triumph of good over no good. They trumpet the march of the working class lady. They tell stories of love gained and lost, knife fights, cops and kindness. The dudes want you to see them play live. They would like you to laugh and dance. After the show, they want to give you a high five. Scott will teach you a special handshake. Bob will ask you for your phone number. They used to have a brown van that took them across Canada thrice. Now its paid the price. She's sitting along the highway at a petrocan in winnipeg and the last they checked, the doors were still unlocked. You know, if you want to go sit in it or something. Soon they will come to your town in a blue van. Will you be there? Maybe sleep on your floor? "I'm Wednesdays foster son..."
Our Thanks to these Festival Sponsors:
Body Fit • City of Swift Current • Creative Video • Days Inn • Empire Clothing Co.
Gramma Beps B&B • Holiday Inn Express • Sears • Soulstis Fashions
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