REVY.Live Outside wrapped a 2024 season Sunday, Aug. 25 with The Porch Hounds and Revelstoke’s Highland pipe band at the Grizzly Plaza gazebo. This season of REVY.Live Outside only saw one cancelation and one rescheduling, a relief after last year was canceled partway through due to B.C.’s wildfire threats.
“We’ve had a lot of amazing local artists, a lot of touring artists that have come through and a couple artists who have made special trips for us,” Nora Hughes, Arts Revelstoke general manager told Revelstoke Mountaineer.
Roughly 50 per cent of the bands this year were new to REVY.Live Outside, meeting Arts Revelstoke’s goal of introducing Revelstoke to new artists and the city to Canada’s music scene. While some businesses around the plaza reported a slower summer, REVY.Live Outside was still able to bring crowds out this season.
“It’s pretty average to have 200 to 300 people in the plaza at any given time,” Hughes said, with an estimated 15,000 attendees taking in the July line of concerts and similar numbers estimated for August.
Local band Pickle Juice used their night at REVY.Live Outside to launch their latest single, Toxic and Sweet to a crowd of fans and new listeners. The Revelstoke-based alt rock band is composed of members who came from the UK, Australia and other corners of Canada for a season of snow and found themselves within Revelstoke’s music scene.
“We love that we can be that platform for our local bands to launch their own music and to really reach their local crowd,” Hughes said.
A line-up that included such a range of local and visiting talent has Hughes adding many artists to her watch list, and the desire of wanting this season’s line-up to return next year shows how great the artists were.
“It’s challenging because I want them all to come back,” Hughes said. “But part of REVY.Live is featuring as many new artists every year.”
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