A Day Late and a Dollar Short have a goal is to leave audiences 100% entertained with their up-tempo traditional and “Newgrass” Bluegrass music. Three and four-part harmony vocals are combined with red-hot acoustic instrumentals and on stage humor to keep their fans hooked.
A DAY LATE AND A DOLLAR SHORT BLUEGRASS BAND
PLAYS FOR BRAINTRUST CANADA AND A RUN TO REMEMBER
KELOWNA, BC -
Award winning local bluegrass band“A Day Late and a A Dollar Short”
plays at Benvoulin Church from1 – 3pm prior to Grey Cup on Sunday November 27th in support of BrainTrust Canada. Funds will be directed to support
BrainTrust Canada’s national initiative A Run to Remember in which David McGuire, a young man with brain injury who sustained brain injury in 2005
and was told he’d never walk again, yet is running amarathona day across
Canada for brain injury awareness. The band refers to their up-tempo music as
both traditional bluegrass and ‘newgrass’ with harmony vocals combined with red-hot acoustic instrumentals and on stage humor. Tickets can bepurchased for $20 at Mosaic Books or by calling BrainTrust Canada at (250)762-3233.
bands in the Central Okanagan. The band members boast nearly 200 years of musical experience combined, and include Gene Bretecher from Sorrento, Ron Hillcoff from Winnipeg,Manitoba, Vic Ukrainetz from Saskatchewan, Bob Bissillion and Darrell Corbel hail from Alberta, and Jack Kinakin born and bred in
Kelowna, BC.
BrainTrust Canada
is a not-for-profit community rehabilitation organizationthat has worked with persons with brain injury since 1986, and is dedicated to
an epidemic and is the greatest cause of death and disability under 45, surpassing cancer, heart disease, diabetes and all other causes. Over 170,000 Canadians incur
brain injury each year – 483 people per day, or one every 3 minutes.
Donations to BrainTrust Canada and A Run to Remember can be madethrough
any Scotiabank (account # 801500051020), or through www.runtoremember.com with options such as buying a km for $20, or by contacting (250) 762-3233.
For more information please contact:
Magda Kapp
Director of Communications
BrainTrust Canada
(250) 762-3233 / mkapp@braintrustcanada.com
BrainTrust Canada #11-368 Industrial Avenue, Kelowna BC V1Y 7E8
T 250.762.3233 | F 250.861.3008
www.braintrustcanada.com
a marathon a day for brain injury
Nominated for the Okanagan Music Awards three times and winners of the OMA 2006 Bluegrass Band of the Year, and the BC Bluegrass Association 2005 Band of the year, they have played to sellout crowds at almost every concert. In 2009 they where voted amongst the top three bands in the Central Okanagan by Okanagan Life Magazine.
Together since 2004, the boys boast nearly 200 years of musical experience amongst them. Converging here in Kelowna, the band members hail from all over Canada. Dominic Cormier on banjo comes from New Brunswick and Ron Hillcoff on bass from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Vic Ukrainetz on fiddle started out in Saskatchewan, Bob Bissillion and Darrell Corbel hail from Alberta while Jack Kinakin is a Kelowna, BC boy, born and bred.
One of their goals has been to increase the exposure of bluegrass music to new people. Building on the recent rise in bluegrass music popularity in the past decade brought on in part by the movie “Oh Brother Where Art Thou”, they have drawn new audiences to the bluegrass scene through sold out performances at Bunches Bistro, the Creekside Theater in Lake Country, The Mary Irwin Theater in Kelowna, the Centre Stage Theatre in Summerland and the Kelowna Community Theatre.
Here are some of the comments made by the concert attendees. Click here.
Through the sale of their CD’s, fund raising performances, and individual donations, the band has raised over $50,000 to support a variety of community projects. These include over $32,000 to support Cancer Care and $14,000 for a new daycare center to open soon at Trinity Baptist Church in Kelowna.
