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Shred Kelly headlines Spring Thaw

Stuart Walter
By Stuart Walter

Saturday night is the annual Folk on the Rocks Spring Thaw.

The event will be headlined by Shred Kelly, who performed at the summer festival last summer.

Shred Kelly is a folk band from Fernie, BC. Since the start of 2016, the band has had tours in both Germany and the United States. They currently have three albums out; “Goodbye July” which came out in 2010, “In The Hills” which was released in 2012 and “Sing To The Night” which came out January 2015.

Read: Yellowknife’s Folk on the Rocks facing legal action

Sometime during the course of the night, the preliminary line up for this years Folk on the Rocks will be revealed.

The show is scheduled to start at 8pm at the Explorer Hotel.

Tickets are $50 and available at Erasmus Apparel.

Read: ‘Conservative budget’ in place for 2016 FOTR after year of loss

Poster from the Folk on the Rocks website
Poster from the Folk on the Rocks website
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