Live Music: Michael Charles

Posted August 24, 2017

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This event finished on 21 April 2024

Categories: Live Music
Tags: Band, Blues, Blues Hall Of Fame, Columbia Valley, Entertainment, Invermere, Live Music, Michael Charles, Radium, Radium Hot Springs, Radium Live Music, Things To Do

Blues Hall of Fame Musician Michael Charles returns to the Horsethief Pub

After outstanding performances in Radium in 2017, 2018, 2019, May and October of 2022, Michael Charles is back in April! Save April 30 in your calendars.

Michael Charles’ musical pilgrimage started over five decades ago in his birth place Melbourne, Australia. While enjoying a successful musical crusade of touring, recording, and numerous television and radio appearances in his homeland, Michael received an invitation from Buddy Guy’s management to appear at the infamous Legends in Chicago, Illinois USA. Graciously accepting the honor, Michael Charles traveled the twelve thousand five hundred miles and took the stage with Mr. Buddy Guy. After numerous trips back and forth, Michael Charles made the monumental and life changing decision to make America his home. Charles worked the whole Chicago blues circuit performing with Mr. Buddy Guy, Phil Guy, James Cotton, Eddy Clearwater, Junior Wells, George Baze, as well as touring with blues legend, Jimmy Dawkins. Through the next twenty years, and now a eight times Grammy elected artist, Michael Charles enjoyed being featured in numerous television and radio broadcasts and several music magazines, along with gracing countless stages and pages including Chicago Blues Fest, Philadelphia Jazz and Blues Fest, Windy City Live Television, WGN TV, JBTV, The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Sun Times, and The College Music Journal. In In 2015 Michael Charles received the extreme honor of an induction into the Blues Hall of Fame. Michael has received endorsements from Vertex and LR Baggs and in Canada from Godin / Seagull Guitars.

Michael Charles’ discography is comprised of thirty-four releases including a double CD thirty year anthology released in 2014 and the live CD “Concert at the Nest”, released in the winter of 2015.

In 2016 Australian film producer started work on a documentary chronicling the musical career of Michael Charles. The Documentary was released in spring of 2018. It is an inspirational film of his journey of passion, determination and the belief in oneself. At this time Michael Charles is traveling his twelfth consecutive tour in 2019, “Michael Charles Soundtracked 2019”, which will once again take him to the far corners of the USA, Canada, and Australia. The 2019 Tour promises a multitude of concerts and publicity appearances as MC performs a whole new list of cities, festivals, and nightspots and revisits some favorite venues from the last eleven tours.

https://youtu.be/Fq0InwHs0QA

Check out this article in the Columbia Valley Pioneer:

Chicago blues legend to play Radium show

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Live Music at the Horsethief

The Horsethief Creek Pub & Eatery has a vibrant live music scene. Live Music Monday has continued weekly for over 4 years, and we do dozens of other music events through the year including our Summer Saturday Music and special events like Radium Days and the Columbia Valley Classics annual Show & Shine.

We host a variety of bands and musicians at the Horsethief, from local bands

to groups traveling through from all over the world. If you have a band that is interested in performing, please send an email to Larry Newman, Music Director, at rockrambler601@gmail.com. Your email should include links to your website, music samples, and any social media you have, and potential dates you are available.

The Venue & Village

The Horsethief Creek Pub & Eatery hosts many great events all through the year, including Yuk Yuk’s Stand Up Comedy, Magicians, Burlesque & Live Music every Monday. Great seating and viewing options for guests and a full dinner and bar menu.

The Village of Radium Hot Springs is a peaceful mountain village in British Columbia’s Columbia Valley in the heart of the Kootenay Mountain Ranges. Only 2h45m West of Calgary, Radium Hot Springs borders on Kootenay National Park.

While visiting Radium, stay with one of our many boutique accommodators, and plan on visiting the Radium Hot Springs Pools, the new Zipline, one of the great courses on the Columbia Valley Golf Trail, or this list of many other things to do. Radium is neighbours to communities in the Columbia valley like Invermere, Panorama, Windermere, Fairmont Hot Springs, Canal Flats, and Edgewater.

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