Jacob Moon

What's Up Kelowna! Well, I saw this video the other night and I just had to post it. Jacob Moon is a singer/songwriter from Ontario, but he deserves this recognition. Turn the volume way up and enjoy his version of Subdivisions by Rush. This is truly incredible. If you read our posts in the morning, this will surely start your day off with a grin!

Shakespeare Kelowna

Shakespeare Kelowna presents a "readers" version of A Christmas Carol. Enjoy the story telling of A Christmas Carol.

tel: Cameron Gordon 778-478-1973
email: sezarius@hotmail.com

Dreamland Sender. Day at the 50 footer.

For those who don't know, these local riders have it pretty figured out. Private space. No restrictions. In fact..it doesn't appear they have many rules at all. They build what they want, and slaughter as they please. Watch the hammers get dropped and remember a warmer time of the year.

Video produced by Matt Butterworth ( Who else? Does this guy sleep? )

Avenue A Classic Bar

Check out this Avenue Grand Opening video courtesy of Andy Holmes. What's Up Kelowna will be showcasing local talent at Avenue so stay tuned.

Avenue Grand Opening from Andy Holmes on Vimeo.

Scott Thielmann Guitar Virtuoso

If you have a passion for guitar music, you live in Kelowna, and you have never heard of Scott Thielmann, then you are in for one amazing experience. Scott is considered one of the preeminent guitar players in this valley. I would safely say he is probably one of the best guitar players I have ever seen! Scott is a master of both the electric and acoustic guitar. Scott was part of the well know duo "The Flying Takameenies" group of Kelowna for many years, but now he fly's solo. Sit through 5 minutes of Scott, and you will be absolutely blown away! The video after the bump is a performance of Scott at the Helping Hands For Haiti fundraiser. In the future, we hope to post a few more videos of Scott (if we can find more) in action so stay tuned.
Scott is currently playing at the Blue Gator on Wednesday nights for the month of December and January.

Almost A Few / Avenue Open Mic

Almost A Few are self taught guitar players with a passion for making nice noise. They started playing together in Alberta before moving to British Columbia where they found instant inspiration from the beauty of the Okanagan. Combining classical guitar with blues undertones, Almost A Few take listeners on a melodic journey. Sit back and enjoy!
Almost A Few - Letting Go by whatsupkelowna

5 Christmas Events for December 2010

Okanagan Symphony Orchestra
Christmas Special "Let It Snow"
Kelowna Community Theatre, Saturday, December 18, 2010 - 7:00 pm

White Christmas at Kelowna Actors Studio
Date: Nov 25th, 2010 to Dec 19th, 2010
Time: 08:00pm
Call 250-862-2867
info@kelownaactorsstudio.com

Westside Winter Wonderland Tour
Bylands Nursery, Bylands Road, West Kelowna
Saturday, December 11, 2010 to Tuesday, December 21, 2010
4pm - 6:30pm

Decade of Bells at Mission Hill Family Estate Winery
Mission Hill Family Estate Winery
Thursday, December 02, 2010 to Saturday, December 11, 2010
11 am to 6 pm

Canadian School of Ballet's "The Nutcracker"
Friday Dec 10th,2010 @ 07:30pm
Saturday Dec 11th,2010 @ 2:00 pm and 7:30pm
Kelowna Community Theatre
1375 Water Street, Kelowna
TicketMaster 250 860-1470
www.ticketmaster.ca

Josh Racho Unplugged

Local Musician Josh Racho sings his version of "Hey Ya" as well as an original "Its Been Said". Sit back and enjoy one of Kelowna's up and coming talents!
Josh Racho by whatsupkelowna

Western Canada RoboCup Junior Games

More than 40 local schools participated in the fifth annual Western Canada RoboCup Junior hosted by Okanagan College on Friday Dec 3 2010. Top performing students in Friday’s Western Canada competition will qualify to represent Canada in the World RoboCup Games in Turkey this July. For more information about Western Canada RoboCup Junior, visit: www.okanagan.bc.ca/robocup. To find out more about RoboCup International, visit: www.robocup.org. To sum up, These guys are playing soccer...with robots. Armageddon is here.







This is the final match of the Robocup 2010 in Singapore pairing off Germany vs Germany in "Soccer Robot: Humanoid League". Is Germany secretly putting all their resources into robots? Hmmm...

Kelowna Skating Clubs BC/YT Sectional Championships Medallists!

Left to right: Jayda Jurome, Kelsey Wiebe, Cambria Little, Haley Sales, Makayla Randall, Hannah Delcourt, Julianne Delaurier - missing from photo: Morgan Jmaiff. Congratulations girls!

Kelowna has many incredibly talented athletes. We would like to showcase just a few of our Kelowna Figure Skaters from the Kelowna Skating Club. Enjoy this routine by Kelsey Wiebe. We hope to showcase more skaters in the future. Good luck to all our local figure skaters.