The Nakusp Music Fest was an annual music festival held in Nakusp, British Columbia, which is situated in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada. Held every summer usually in July, it was touted as the British Columbia Interior's largest classic rock festival, although classic rock was not the only genre of music played at the event.
The inaugural event was held in 2004 with more than ten acts, including of Dr. Hook, Randy Bachman, Trooper and Wide Mouth Mason.
Since then, Nakusp Music Festival has featured Smash Mouth, Collective Soul, 54-40, Steppenwolf, Aaron Pritchett and Paul Rodgers. This year's line-up will include The Doobie Brothers, Kevin Costner & Modern West, The Sheepdogs Soul Asylum, Spirit of the West. Canned Heat, Savoy Brown, Honeymoon Suite.
2011 lineup
July 15th
The Sheepdogs
Mobadass
The Led Zeppelin Show
Honeymoon Suite
July 16th
Kevin Costner and Modern West
Spirit of the West
Skavenjah
Canned Heat
Gary Hoey
The Pack AD
Odds
Tambura Rasa
July 17th
The Doobie Brothers
Soul Asylum
Grapes of Wrath
Savoy Brown
Canned Heat
Alan Kirk Band
The Perms
2010 lineup
July 16th
54-40
Headpins
Powder Blues Band
The Mason Rack Band
July 17th
Bachman–Turner Overdrive
Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans
The Trews
Raul Malo (The Mavericks)
Delhi 2 Dublin
Rude City Riot
LeeRoy Stagger and the Wildflowers
Shades of Loud
July 18th
Eric Burdon and the Animals
Doc Walker
Bif Naked
Default
Mudmen
Dustin Bentall
Lucy and the Lucky Four
2009 lineup
July 17th
Sweet
Trooper
Nick Gilder & Sweeney Todd
The Hip Replacement
July 18th
Blues Traveler
Sam Moore
The Yardbirds
East Blues Experience
Skavenjah
Sweatshop Union
Delhi2Dublin
Mad Shadow
Hot Rash
July 19th
John Kay & Steppenwolf
Colin James
Emerson Drive
Greg Rolie Band (Santana original lead singer)
The Zombies
Suzie McNeil
MOBADASS
Eddie Fryer and the Lost Tribe
2008 lineup
July 18th
Kenny Shields & Streetheart
Prism
Skavenjah
Funkafeelya
July 19th
Smash Mouth
The Commitments
BC/DC
Brittany Kalesnikoff
Johnny Reid
Brian Byrne
Ryan Donn
Rita Chiarell
July 20th
Honeymoon Suite
Paul Rodgers
Gin Blossoms
MerQury
McCuaig
Aaron Pritchett
Cassidy Wethal & 23 North
Jimmy Bowskill
Past lineups
2007
2006
2005
2004
References
Music festivals established in 2004
Music festivals disestablished in 2011
Rock festivals in Canada
Music festivals in British Columbia
Arrow Lakes
2004 establishments in British Columbia
2011 disestablishments in British Columbia