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Animal Nation, Sly Business to play at Creston's Snoring Sasquatch

Animal Nation is hitting the road again for its third major tour this year, playing at Creston’s Snoring Sasquatch on Aug. 14...
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Animal Nation (above) will be joined by Sly Business at Creston's Snoring Sasquatch on Aug. 14.

Having just come home from Toronto’s North by Northeast Festivals and Conference, and playing a sold out 10,000-person festival on Vancouver Island in July (including appearances by k.d. lang, Emmylou Harris and Buffy Saint-Marie) the band is hitting the road again for its third major tour this year, playing at Creston’s Snoring Sasquatch on Aug. 14.

The Whistler-based band combine harmonicas, guitars, and drum machines with turntables, sampling, and banjos to create a hip-hop show unlike anything you’ve ever seen before.

Kicking off in Whistler for the start of this year’s Crankworx festival, the band will be travelling as a three-piece again as guitar player Jeff Waters is back from back surgery and on the road again.

Animal Nation will also be travelling with Saskatoon band Sly Business, fronted by guitar player/singer/MC/amazing guy Mark Ejack. In September, the band is set to play two shows at the Western Canadian Music Awards in Regina (Breakout West Fest) to go with their WCMA nomination for best hip-hop album.

Previous accolades include the 2010 Olympics, Pemberton Festival, multiple Telus ski and snowboard festivals, Parliament Hill on Canada Day.

Animal Nation is Steige “Tall Man” Turner and Mike “Armadillo Slim” Armitage and, it formed in 2004 after a heated argument between the two not-then members over the quality of another band’s performance.

“The members of Animal Nation are hesitant to call their music ‘hip-hop’ because a lot of hip-hop sucks,” said the band’s press information. “The members of Animal Nation think this is unfortunate because they really, really love good hip-hop, but know that the general population thinks that hip-hop sucks as well.

“Animal Nation is the greatest band you will ever hear. After listening to Animal Nation it will henceforth be impossible to appreciate any other sort of music that is not Animal Nation.”

Tickets from Animal Nation’s concert are $10 in advance at Black Bear Books and Kingfisher Used Books, or $12 at the door, which opens at 7 p.m.; the show starts at 8.

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