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Next Concert
Oscar Lopez - Juno award-winning fusion guitarist
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Oscar Lopez duo
Friday, July 25, 2025 Unitarian Hall 1310 Bertram Street at Cawston Avenue, Kelowna Doors 7:30 PM Concert 8:00 PM Please note time is different from our usual Tickets $40 plus fees. Click on Add to Cart button below Guitar virtuoso Oscar Lopez’s fervent fusion of Latin, jazz and folk has earned him two prestigious Juno Awards and numerous nominations. An exuberant live performer, his playing has inspired all-star collaborations with an eclectic range of celebrated musicians that range from Rik Emmett of the rock band Triumph, to the ubiquitous blues and jazz genius of Amos Garrett, to the acoustic wizardry of England’s premier folk guitarist, Martin Simpson. Of course, there’s also Lopez’s highly successful Compadres partnership with recent Lantern performer James Keelaghan that produced their distinctive, joyful, hybrid of Celtic and Latino songs and instrumentals they dubbed ‘Celtino’.
Born in Santiago, Chile, Lopez immigrated to Canada in 1979. Settling in Calgary, he was discovered performing in bars and restaurants by CBC producer Les Siemieniuk, who asked Lopez to make a demo. And the rest is a storied history that includes Best Instrumental Album of the Year at the Juno Awards in 2002 for his release, Armando’s Fire, an achievement he duplicated three years later with Mi Destino / My Destiny. Lopez has recorded 10 albums in all, with his last solo effort released in 2010. Lopez’s albums received world-wide distribution through such major labels as EMI and Virgin Records. While missing in action for several years due to a debilitating illness, he is currently back in full exploratory form recording an album with the working title, Retro 103 Power Train, that features electric guitar for the first time and Indigenous powwow singing and drumming. Equally at home performing in front of Symphony Orchestras in Calgary or Saskatoon, intimate folk clubs like Lantern, or for thousands of fans at outdoor events such as the Montreal Jazz Festival or the Calgary Folk Music Festival, Oscar Lopez offers a naturally warm, dynamic, and challenging package of musical intensity. As Martin Simpson wryly noted: “Oscar Lopez is the only guitarist I know who can actually make an acoustic, nylon-string guitar scream.” For Lantern in Kelowna, Oscar will be accompanied by a second guitarist, in a Duo format. |
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Upcoming Concerts
Tiller's Folly
Saturday, August 23, 2025
Afternoon Outdoor Concert
3002 Dunster Road, Kelowna
Doors 1:30 PM Concert 2:00 PM
Tickets $35 plus fees.
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Saturday, August 23, 2025
Afternoon Outdoor Concert
3002 Dunster Road, Kelowna
Doors 1:30 PM Concert 2:00 PM
Tickets $35 plus fees.
Click on Add to Cart button below
For over twenty-five years, Tiller’s Folly have been uniting the past with the present as modern-day storytellers of lore, singing the West’s pioneer history to life. From the outset, Tiller’s Folly aspired to create acoustic music that is thoughtful, progressive, yet timeless in nature. Music that is representative of their Pacific Coastal home. They set out to preserve a measure of the West’s colonial heritage in stories & songs.
Drawing influence from Scottish, Irish and Maritime Music traditions, Tiller’s Folly have continued to expand and refine their potent blend of Pacific Canadiana, and ‘beyond.’
“As one of the tightest, and unflinchingly focused, folk bands in the nation, Tiller’s Folly continues to produce music that is both distinctly Canadian and firmly rooted in the Celtic tradition. Stirring Up Ghosts confirms that Tiller’s Folly is a national treasure”
— Peter North / Edmonton Journal
Drawing influence from Scottish, Irish and Maritime Music traditions, Tiller’s Folly have continued to expand and refine their potent blend of Pacific Canadiana, and ‘beyond.’
“As one of the tightest, and unflinchingly focused, folk bands in the nation, Tiller’s Folly continues to produce music that is both distinctly Canadian and firmly rooted in the Celtic tradition. Stirring Up Ghosts confirms that Tiller’s Folly is a national treasure”
— Peter North / Edmonton Journal
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