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After a devastating wildfire forced the last-minute cancelation of the Ponderosa Arts & Music Festival last August, questions about the festivals return in 2016 lingered.
Organizers of the festival put those fears to rest in February, and released the artist lineup this past weekend.
Despite the financial hit Kia Zahrabi and Kris Hargrave said they took due to last year’s last-minute cancellation, August’s lineup boasts an impressive group of artists from around B.C. and Canada.
The festival, running from Aug. 19 - 21 in Rock Creek, will be headlined by Ontario and Quebec- based Timber Timbre on Friday night, followed by Vancouver-based psych rockers Black Mountain on Saturday.
Vancouver blues duo, Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer, who had planned to play the festival last year, will close out the festival on the Sunday.
In addition to the headliners, notable Vancouver favourites The Boom Booms, The Belle Game and Pack A.D. along with Manitoba’s Royal Canoe will be throwing down on the two stages along the Kettle River.
There’s a strong possibility there may be some dancing at the festival too, with electronic acts Moontricks and Stickybuds playing sets on Friday and Saturday.
Local acts include Kelowna’s Andrew Judah and Salmon Arm’s Harold Nix.
It’s been a tough year for music festivals in B.C., with the much larger Squamish Valley Music Festival cancelling their 2016 dates in March.
Some have speculated the cancellation was due to the weak Canadian dollar relative to the American dollar, as it had boasted many big American acts in previous years.
The Rock Creek Wildfire destroyed 30 homes and burned more than 4,400 hectares around Rock Creek and Westbridge in August, 2015, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of residents.
Zahrabi and Hargrave gave the official word on the festival’s cancelation just two days before it was set to begin, saying they couldn’t guarantee attendee’s safety.
This will be the third time Ponderosa has been held, as long as the wildfires behave themselves this August.
