Creston, get ready for mid-winter good times. On Feb. 20, the Sasquatch Arts and Music Society presents Canada’s National Treasure.
Making its first appearance in Creston, the trio will be performing as part of the BC Spirit Festival at the Snoring Sasquatch — an evening of original yet familiar music you won’t want to miss.
For those who haven’t yet sampled, National Treasure (NT) offers an animated, high-energy live show lush with aural texture and infectiously pleasing to all the senses. Blending innumerable styles and influences, NT strives to be the complete rock ensemble with guitars, keyboards, drums, percussion, accordion, harmonica, bass and shimmering three-part harmonies.
The band has evoked comparisons to Wilco, the Band, Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, and early Grateful Dead. Like these great rock acts, NT combines a myriad of influences: country, jazz, folk, rock, blues, reggae and R&B into a succulent dish they’ve personally dubbed “vintage cream”.
National Treasure is Edmonton’s Jesse Dee and Jacquie B, and Banff’s Ory No'man. Touring all over southern B.C. and Alberta as this fun-loving trio, they are thrilled to be a part of this winter celebration of art and culture.
The group met back in 2007 at the North Country Fair in northern Alberta. This serendipitous meeting struck a common chord of friendship and musicianship, which has seen them collaborate, create and tour together all over the country. Jesse Dee and Jacquie B are a duo that has been on the radar for going on four years, gracing festival stages, house concerts and everything in between. Ory No’man is a road warrior in his own right, having toured Canada’s vast expanse numerous times in the last five years.
Currently, NT is based out of the tiny gold rush town of Wells, B.C., where they live in harmony, with their cat Hannah, to write, practice and eventually record, in between almost constant touring.
The show begins at 3 p.m.; doors open at 2. Advance tickets are $10 at Kingfisher Books, or $12 at the door. For more information, visit www.snoringsasquatch.com.