Published: August 10, 2010

Tickets are still available for this weekend’s Desert Daze music festival in Spences Bridge.

The first annual all-genre music event happens this weekend, Aug. 13 to Aug. 15.

Lynda McRae and Rockland Moran are on the list, as well as performers from Lytton, Salmon Arm, Merritt and even Saskatchewan.

Several First Nations artists have signed up, and will be opening the three-day event with a traditional prayer.

Harley Carmen and Al Horne, a duo from Merritt, will be playing on the Saturday (Aug. 14) at about 3 p.m.

The two are next-door neighbours who have been playing Indie Folk music together for the past few years.

“We got together and formed this little duo, and since then we’ve just had a lot of fun with it,” said Carmen. “It’s sort of rootsy-folk kind of stuff. A lot of John Prine, Steve Earle, and we do some of my originals. I wouldn’t call it Rock and Roll, but it’s a lot of fun.”

Tickets for Desert Daze are available at Mandolin’s Coffee Shop, for single-day or three-day passes. Student and senior discounts apply.

For more information, visit www.facebook.com/The Packing House in Spences Bridge

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