A fireworks display kicked off the final weekend of the 63rd Vernon Winter Carnival Friday, Feb. 10, at Kin Race Track. (Roger Knox - Morning Star)
…of which Jenna Walker of The Reklaws (right) happily obliged Alyssa by meeting her before The Reklaws’ set, and, of course, signing the poster. (Roger Knox - Morning Star)
The Reklaws – siblings Jenna and Stuart Walker from Ontario – closed out the 2023 Vernon Winter Carnival A&W Snowglobe Country Barn Burner concert Friday, Feb. 10, before a capacity crowd at Kal Tire Place. (Roger Knox - Morning Star)
The set list of the headliners at the Vernon Winter Carnival A&W 2023 Snowglobe Country Barn Burner concert. (Roger Knox - Morning Star)
The Reklaws – siblings Jenna and Stuart Walker from Ontario – closed out the 2023 Vernon Winter Carnival A&W Snowglobe Country Barn Burner concert Friday, Feb. 10, before a capacity crowd at Kal Tire Place. (Roger Knox - Morning Star)
A fireworks display kicked off the final weekend of the 63rd Vernon Winter Carnival Friday, Feb. 10, at Kin Race Track. (Roger Knox - Morning Star)
Opening act Michael Daniels of Kelowna (right), with guitarist Austen Sawchuk, kicked off the Vernon Winter Carnival A&W Snowglobe Country Barn Burner concert before a capacity crowd of 3,500 Friday, Feb. 10, at Kal Tire Place. (Roger Knox-Morning Star)
Kelowna’s Michael Daniels (right) with guitarist Austen Sawchuk got the party started Friday, Feb. 10, at Kal Tire Place as the opening act for the Vernon Winter Carnival A&W 2023 Snowglobe Country Barn Burner concert. (Roger Knox - Morning Star)
DJ Lunchboxx had concert-goers up dancing before and after the acts at the Vernon Winter Carnival A&W 2023 Snowglobe Country Barn Burner concert Friday, Feb. 10, at Kal Tire Place. (Roger Knox - Morning Star)
Parkland, Fla.’s Ashley Cooke made her first trip to Canada a memorable one as she performed before a capacity crowd at Vernon’s Kal Tire Place Friday, Feb. 10, as part of the Vernon Winter Carnival A&W 2023 Snowglobe Country Barn Burner concert. (Roger Knox - Morning Star)
Parkland, Fla.’s Ashley Cooke made her first trip to Canada a memorable one as she performed before a capacity crowd at Vernon’s Kal Tire Place Friday, Feb. 10, as part of the Vernon Winter Carnival A&W 2023 Snowglobe Country Barn Burner concert. (Roger Knox - Morning Star)
Fans used the flashlights on their cell phones to mimic lighters during the Vernon Winter Carnival A&W 2023 Snowglobe Country Barn Burner concert Friday, Feb. 10, at Kal Tire Place. (Roger Knox - Morning Star)
Alyssa Sackman of Vernon, eight, with parents Tracy and Todd Sackman, chose the Vernon Winter Carnival A&W 2023 Snowglobe Country Barn Burner Friday, Feb. 10, at Kal Tire Place for her first concert experience featuring one of her favourite groups, The Reklaws…(Roger Knox - Morning Star)The final weekend of the 63rd Vernon Winter Carnival started with a bang.
And finished with a barn burner of a concert.
The Family Fun Park setting at the Kal Tire Place North parking lot was a great place to view a fireworks display at 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10. The fireworks were set off at the neighbouring former Kin Race Track site.
As the fireworks were going off, and the 50th Vernon Coca-Classic Pee Wee Hockey Tournament was continuing in Kal Tire Place North Arena, fans began to lineup outside the main doors of the big arena, Kal Tire Place, for the 2023 Vernon Winter Carnival A&W Snowglobe Country Barn Burner concert.
The event drew a capacity crowd of 3,500 to watch country acts Michael Daniels, Ashley Cooke and headliners The Reklaws play inside for more than two hours, accompanied between sets by DJ Lunchboxx.
Among the events on this, the final weekend of Carnival, include the 50th Pee Wee Hockey Tournament, Carnival Days at O’Keefe Ranch Saturday, Feb. 11, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Yaba-Daba-Do! Saturday morning All You Can Eat Cereal and Cartoon Party from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Museum and Archives of Vernon, the Chili Cook Off in Downtown Vernon Saturday from 12 to 3 p.m. and the Halina Centre’s RRREEAALY Big Variety Show Sunday, Feb. 12, from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Halina Activity Centre.
A full list of final weekend events can be found here.
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