If you're looking for a good time and one helluva lively Thanksgiving celebration, you need to be at Roberts Creek Hall on Saturday, Oct. 10.
The WhiskeyDicks, a "raving group of Celtic gypsy punk rockers" from Whitehorse, Yukon, will be shaking up the old hall with their infectious enthusiasm and eclectic instrumentation.
The band had their start outside a liquor store in Whitehorse in 2001. Brothers Curtis and Patrick Ernst and their friend Ryan Enns cooked up a plan to make drinking money playing songs about "friendship, drinking and drinking with friends with the thirst of a sailor who just got kicked out of his metal band."
The WhiskeyDicks have performed at the Commo-dore Ballroom in Vancouver for a number of years on St. Patrick's Day, and in summer 2008 played Yukon's Sunstroke Festival and Alsek Music Fest. In January 2009, the boys were featured international artists at the Woodford Folk Festival in Australia.
As the boys say, it's simply impossible to have a bad time with them in the room, so get your dancing feet on down to the hall on Saturday. Doors open at 8:30 and the fun begins at 9 p.m. Tickets to the Live Music Society's premiere presentation of the WhiskeyDicks are $15, available at WindSong Gallery in Sechelt, Roberts Creek Health Food Store and Gaia's Fair Trade Gifts in Lower Gibsons.
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