WAKE WEST, VANCOUVER AUGUST 27-29, PUTS SINGLE DAY
TICKETS ON SALE, ANNOUNCES TWO STAGE LINE-UPS
(Vancouver) - This summer's hottest event, the 1st
Annual Wake West Festival, hits Vancouver's False Creek
August 27-29. Single day-pass tickets are now on
sale at all Ticketmaster locations, call (604) 280.4444
or visit
www.ticketmaster.ca. Prices are $25 for Friday; $25
for Saturday, and $18 for Sunday. Complete weekend
passes are also available as follows:
· First 993 tickets, $37.45 *SOLD OUT*
· Remainder of advance tickets are $45
· Tickets are $55 at door day of show (taxes and agency
fees are extra).
· Gates: Friday, August 27: noon-10 pm. Saturday, August
28: noon-10 pm.
Sunday, August 29: noon-9 pm
False Creek at the Plaza of Nations hosts three days of
insane wakeboarding
action, a huge vendor village, beer gardens, and two
music stages showcasing
over 30 of Canada's best bands and deejays including:
Sum 41, The Tea Party,
Swollen Members, Bif Naked, Black Halos, Out Of Your
Mouth, Hugh Dillon
Redemption Choir, The Rumours, Kia Kadiri and Kyprios.
Mainstage Friday (Plaza Of Nations Stage)
4:30 The Heck
5:30 Speed To Kill
6:30 The Rumours
7:30 Social Code
8:30 Black Halos
9:30 SUM 41
Mainstage Saturday
3:00 The Solution
4:00 James Murdoch
5:00 Limblifter
6:00 Kyprios
7:00 Hugh Dillon Redemption Choir
8:10 Bif Naked
9:20 The Tea Party
Mainstage Sunday
1:30 Everything After
2:30 Kia Kadiri
3:30 Crystal Pistol
4:30 Shocore
5:30 Swollen Members
6:30 Out Of Your Mouth
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Renegade Stage (Parking lot of 1188 Pacific Blvd.)
Friday
4:55 Black Rice
5:55 Vincent Black Shadow
6:55 Dirty Blonde
7:55 Todd Kearns
Renegade Stage Saturday
2:25 Nikki Hurst
3:25 Tourist
4:25 The Years
5:25 Epoxy Ruin
6:25 Superbeing
7:35 Retrograde
Renegade Stage Sunday
1:25 Yea Whatever
2:25 Gladys Patches
3:25 The Flairs
4:25 Forty Foot Echo
5:40 State of Shock
Over 200 of the nation's top male and female wakeboard
athletes will compete
in the Canadian National Wakeboard Championships, which
includes the crowd
favourite Slider and Wakeskate events. With $10,000 in
prize money and the
National title up for grabs, Wake West will see the best
Canadian names in
attendance, including:
· Sunni Anne Ball (King City, ON) - 2003 WWA Worlds 1st
Jr. Women, 2003
Nationals 1st Open Women
· Steve McKinley (Winfield, BC) - 2003 WWA Worlds 1st
Open Men, 2003
Nationals 1st Open Men
· Kevin Henshaw (Sidney, BC) - 2003 World Wakeboard
Championships 2nd Jr.
Men
· Rusty Malinowski (Saskatoon, SK) - 2003 WWA Worlds 2nd
Open Men, 2003 IWSF
Worlds 4th Cash Prize Round, 2003 IWSF Worlds 5th Pro
Men
· Aaron Lepin (Kelowna & Delta, BC) - 2x WWA Worlds
Medallist, 2x National
Champion, 2004 BC Hyperlite Tour Champion
Fans can take advantage of perfect site lines for all
the high-flyin'
wakeboard action from the Plaza of Nations or the
Grandstand and beer
gardens in adjoining Cooper's Park, and browse for the
latest in
wakeboarding and action sport products in the Vendor
Village.
Wake West is presented by Waterski and Wakeboard British
Columbia (WSWBC),
Waterski and Wakeboard Canada, Air Nautiques, Deas Nutz
Wakeboard Club, Lake
Country Board & Ski Club, Digital Youth, Tiny Toys
Pocket Bikes, Coors
Light, CTV, 99.3 The Fox, and the Province. Wake West is
a G House
production.
