Music at the Olympics

by Kelly

— Edited January 11th to include peformances at BC Place (thanks to @suze20TO for the link) and to add in links to the artists’ web sites where possible —

Two of my most favourite things and I get to combine them in one post…woot!  One of my closest friends will be realising a life-long dream and heading to Vancouver in less than a month to see the Olympics.  I’m sure she will be both blogging on My Life Is Like A Song and tweeting (you can follow her @suze20TO) a lot from out there and I am looking forward to reading all about her experiences out there.

As well as a love of the Olympics, @suze20TO and I also share a love of music.  We’ve been talking a bit about who will be performing at the Olympics and I’ve been watching various web sites as they start to firm up the list.

Here is what I have so far:

Whistler Medals Plaza

• February 13 – All American Rejects (www.allamericanrejects.com)
• February 14 – Estelle (www.estellemusic.com)
• February 15 – Pierre Lapointe
• February 16 – Feist
• February 17 – Our Lady Peace
• February 18 – Deadmau5
• February 19 – Hedley (www.hedleyonline.com)
• February 20 – Stars
• February 21 – OneRepublic
• February 22 – to be confirmed
• February 23 – The Fray (www.thefray.net)
• February 24 – Jet
• February 25 – The Roots
• February 26 – K’Naan
• February 27 – Usher

Village Square

• February 12 – The Hairfarmers
• February 13 – Valerie Sajdik, Elliott BROOD, Great Lakes Swimmers
• February 14 – Karkwa, Matisyahu, Bedouin Soundclash
• February 15 – Inez, George Leach, Misteur Valaire
• February 16 – La Volee d’Castors, Jenn Grant, Hawksley Workman
• February 17 – Ali Milner, Mes Aïeux, Barenaked Ladies
• February 18 – The Lost Fingers, Kuba Oms
• February 19 – Vishten, House of Doc, Corb Lund
• February 20 – Animal Nation, Five Alarm Funk, Jully Black
• February 21 – Sam Roberts Band
• February 22 – Wassabi Collective, Hey Rosetta!, Constantines
• February 23 – Damian Jr Gong Marley
• February 24 – Kuban Cossack Chorus, Gorky Park
• February 25 – ALO, Galactic
• February 26 – Chic Gamine, Wintersleep
• February 27 – Two Hours Traffic, Barney Bentall
• February 28 – Blue Rodeo

At Skier’s Plaza, located at the base of Blackcomb and Whistler mountains, there will also be a variety of DJ’s spinning every night:

February 13 – Kid Koala

February 14 – MJ, The Mole, Deadbeat

February 15 – Swollen Members

February 16 – DJ.Czech

February 17 – John Martinez

February 18 – Fort Knox Five, Neighbour

February 19 – Keys N Krates

February 20 – Maestro Fresh Wes

February 21 – Tigerstyle

February 22 – Chromeo

February 23 – Smalltown DJs

February 24 – Team Rezofficial

February 25 – B.Traits

February 26 – Grand Analog

February 27 – Mat the Alien, Vinyl Ritchie

 

BC Place

• February 14 – Nelly Furtado (www.nellyfurtado.com)
• February 15 – To be confirmed
• February 16 – Barenaked Ladies (www.barenakedladies.com)
• February 17 – Paul Brandt (www.paulbrandt.com)
• February 18 – Hedley (www.hedleyonline.com)
• February 19 – Theory of a Deadman (www.theoryofadeadman.com)
• February 20 – Stereophonics (www.stereophonics.com)
• February 21 – Trooper & Loverboy (www.loverboyband.com / www.trooper.com)
• February 23 – Billy Talent (www.billytalent.com)
• February 24 – INXS (www.inxs.com)
• February 25 – Burton Cummings (www.officialburtoncummings.com)
• February 26 – Great Big Sea (www.greatbigsea.com)

I’ve hilighted some of the musicians I’d like to see – I will leave the DJ recommendations to my friend @PJMixer who really has a handle on a wider variety of musical talents than I do (you can read his personal blog here and his music blog – shared with @suze20TO – here).

I’m looking forward to seeing some of these performances so I’m hoping they broadcast them.  I’ll do my best to post any updates as I find them – and please, do the same!