Celebrating our live and local music community
The Live Events Calendar was created to celebrate, promote and support the incredible live music community throughout the Thompson Okanagan.
It’s a place where music lovers can discover everyone from emerging bands and solo performers to established artists—and find the intimate stages, neighbourhood pubs and larger venues that bring live music to our communities.
People’s Choice isn’t about creating winners or turning local music into a popularity contest. Choosing your favourites is simply a fun way to show your appreciation and help others discover artists and venues that local music fans enjoy.
If voting isn’t your thing, that’s perfectly okay. Please don’t take it too seriously or be offended by the results. It’s simply another helpful resource for people looking to discover great live music throughout our region.
Have fun, enjoy the music and show some love for the artists and venues that make our local scene so special. Life gives us enough to stress about—music should bring us together and not become something negative or offensive. Unless you create that negativity, it isn’t coming from us. If you want to turn this into something negative, that has no place here. 🙂
After four decades of performing live here, this is one small way I—and all of us at Gonzo Okanagan—can give something back and show our appreciation.
We love our live and local Thompson Okanagan music community! ❤️
Gonzo Okanagan / Brad Krauza
Peoples Choice
Save as many private Favourites as you like on this browser. Use the separate Vote button for Peoples Choice: up to 3 different artists and 3 different venues total across the Thompson Okanagan per browser, per calendar year. Each selection gets one vote. Use Remove vote to make room for another. No account or sign-in needed.
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Top five across the Thompson Okanagan
Use the city filter above to see the leading artists and venues in each community.
Top 5 artists
Current year · Across the Thompson Okanagan
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Top 5 venues
Current year · Across the Thompson Okanagan
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Awards votes are remembered with a cookie on this browser. Private favourites are stored separately on this device and do not affect rankings. Clearing cookies or using another browser resets your voting allowance. Nominees come from the researched artist directory and connected venue calendars. Counts are actual awards votes, separate from website clicks, and sharing. Current-year leaders can change; ties remain visible. Past-year results are retained.