The 69th annual North Thompson Fall Fair and Rodeo is excited to announce that their Sunday, Sept. 2, Cowboy Concert will be featuring Ed Peekeekoot.
Peekeekoot is a highly skilled finger-style guitar player with a great ability to entertain audiences. He can play just about anything with strings – including fiddle, banjo, mandolin, and dobro.
Although he has lived on Vancouver Island for the last several years, Ed maintains strong connections with the Ahtahkakoop Cree First Nation in Saskatchewan where he was born and raised. Growing up in a musical family, Ed began playing professionally when he was 16. Ed has twice been nominated for the BC Country Music Association Instrumentalist of the Year award.
His “Two Worlds” tape was nominated for EP of the Year when it was released. One of Ed’s instrumentals, “Land of the Raven” was used as the music for a film series called North American Indian Portraits. Ed was featured in that series in a film called “Gentleman Cowboy of Honkytonk”. He also appeared on the APTN series Beyond Words. Peekeekoot has a number of popular CDs out and is a favourite wherever he performs.
The Cowboy Concert has a strong lineup of entertainers for this year’s performance; Ed Peekeekoot, Butch Falk, Ed Wahl, Hugh McLennan, Mike Dygert and Gordie West. The concert will be held in the Fall Fair Hall at the North Thompson Fall Fairgrounds in Barriere on Sunday, Sept. 2. Doors open at 7 p.m. with the performance starting at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets ($10 adults and $8 seniors and students)can be purchased at Barriere Country Feeds, the Fall Fair Office in Barriere and at the Concert.