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The Dream is an intimate live music listening room in Penticton, BC, dedicated to growing the city’s creative capacity by providing a flexible space where people of all ages can perform, learn, collaborate, and grow.

Today was the last Downtown Penticton Market of 2026. (The Penticton Farmers Market continues until Oct 31.) That meant ...
09/06/2026

Today was the last Downtown Penticton Market of 2026. (The Penticton Farmers Market continues until Oct 31.) That meant today was our last open house, which means the next time most people get a peek inside, it will be (more or less 😬) complete and a band will be on stage.

In the interim, a couple of noteworthy pics from today that say a lot about the “new” Dream.

We’re particularly proud of the first pic. Accessibility was a high priority for all involved in designing The Dream, none more so than Tony Atkins of Atkins Design Studio. This pic makes it clear our efforts were successful. Had we not undertaken these renovations, this gentleman would have never seen the inside of The Dream in person. If you know people with mobility challenges, please let them know this venue was designed with them in mind.

Another priority for us has been diversity in our programming. Our first full marquee once again shows our volunteers’ efforts are paying off. In this small space, you can find roots, jazz, punk, country, folk, originals, covers, quiet, loud, and other types of music. The Dream belongs to everyone and our programming should reflect that. We want everyone to have a reason to be at The Dream.

So many people have already contributed so much to this project that we can’t possibly thank them all in a single message. So today, let us focus on just one group and send out a huge thank you to the many volunteers who’ve been giving tours all summer! 🙏

Today was the last Downtown Penticton Market of 2026. (The Penticton Farmers Market continues until Oct 31.) That meant ...
09/06/2026

Today was the last Downtown Penticton Market of 2026. (The Penticton Farmers Market continues until Oct 31.) That meant today was our last open house, which means the next time most people get a peek inside, it will be (more or less 😬) complete and a band will be on stage.

In the interim, a couple of noteworthy pics from today that say a lot about the “new” Dream.

We’re particularly proud of the first pic. Accessibility was a high priority for all involved in designing The Dream, none more so than Tony Atkins of Atkins Design Studio. This pic makes it clear our efforts were successful. Had we not undertaken these renovations, this gentleman would have never seen the inside of The Dream in person. If you know people with mobility challenges, please let them know this venue was designed with them in mind.

Another priority for us has been diversity in our programming. Our first full marquee once again shows our volunteers’ efforts are paying off. In this small space, you can find roots, jazz, punk, country, folk, originals, covers, quiet, loud, and other types of music. The Dream belongs to everyone and our programming should reflect that. We want everyone to have a reason to be at The Dream.

So many people have already contributed so much to this project that we can’t possibly thank them all in a single message. So today, let us focus on just one group and send out a huge thank you to the many volunteers who’ve been giving tours all summer! 🙏

Ridley Bent writes country songs with a body count. Gunslingers, gamblers, hard cases and doomed romantics move through ...
09/01/2026

Ridley Bent writes country songs with a body count. Gunslingers, gamblers, hard cases and doomed romantics move through his catalogue like people he actually knew, and he delivers them deadpan, in a voice that never oversells the punchline.

Born in Halifax and raised across Canada in a military family, Bent surfaced in British Columbia around the turn of the century, opening for Great Big Sea and Sam Roberts . He arrived properly in 2005 with Blam, a debut so thick with talking-blues murder ballads that Apple Music still files it under hip-hop. The press called it hick hop. The label stuck, and it undersold him.

Four more albums followed, each a step further from the gimmick and closer to straight country, through to the road-worn Ridley Bent and the Killer Tumbleweeds in 2018. Along the way: seven BCCMA wins, a CCMA nomination, and an Independent Music Award for best country song. Songs like “Arlington” and “Heartland Heartbreak” outlasted every category anyone tried to file him under.

He comes to The Dream alone — no band, no Tumbleweeds, just a guitar and the stories, which is the shape his writing was built for. Every line arrives without a drum kit to hide behind, close enough that you hear him take the breath before it.

https://www.dreamsociety.ca/events/94/

Only one more month to wait, folks! The paint might still be wet and we may be asking you to bring your own chair, but w...
08/31/2026

Only one more month to wait, folks! The paint might still be wet and we may be asking you to bring your own chair, but we are confident our doors will be open on October 2. Hope to see you all there or, if not, at one of the other great shows we have planned for October.

Fri, Oct 2 -- The Matinee
Sat, Oct 3 -- The Matinee
Sun, Oct 4 -- Triology
Sat, Oct 10 -- Simon Kempston
Tue, Oct 13 -- By Divine Right & Status Non Status
Wed, Oc 14 -- Aretha Tillotson Quartet
Fri, Oct 16 -- Loose Change (Dream Fundraiser)
Fri, Oct 23 -- Kuja Collective
Sat, Oct 24 -- Ridley Bent
Sat, Oct 31 -- Nightmare on Front Street

"One of Scotland's very best singer-songwriters." — The Herald on SundayYou probably haven't heard of Simon Kempston. At...
08/26/2026

"One of Scotland's very best singer-songwriters." — The Herald on Sunday

You probably haven't heard of Simon Kempston. At least not yet. In Scotland they've been writing about him for years.

He's an Edinburgh songwriter, born in Dundee, and a fingerstyle guitarist The Scotsman calls "a master" of the form — classical discipline underneath, Celtic phrasing over the top, blues in the way he bends a line just past where you expect it to stop. Maverick heard "super cool blues in a John Martyn meets Chris Rea vein." fROOTS went with "intelligent, passionate and highly original." Iain Anderson has played him on BBC Radio Scotland; Tom Robinson has played him on BBC Radio 6 Music.

What the quotes don't quite get at is the writing. Kempston builds songs out of architecture, history, politics and the places thirty-eight countries have put him — rarely out of romance — and delivers them in a clear tenor that never oversells a word. He's played Celtic Connections, Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and regularly puts away more than a hundred concerts in a single year.

He arrives with a new album, A Poet Or A Painter (Listen), released this June and the most ambitious record he's made — his guitar and voice joined by some of Scotland's finest folk and jazz players.

Kempston is crossing an ocean and most of a continent for a short run of Western Canadian dates, and October 10 is ours. One guitar, one voice, and a room where every string carries. If you take a chance on one unfamiliar name this autumn, make it this one.

https://www.dreamsociety.ca/events/90/

Pre-sales commence August 27. Public sales on September 24.

There's a word for what happens when Kuja Collective takes the stage, and it isn't "concert" — it's closer to a celebrat...
08/26/2026

There's a word for what happens when Kuja Collective takes the stage, and it isn't "concert" — it's closer to a celebration. This Penticton-based collective plays Celtic music the way it was always meant to be heard: loud, joyful, and impossible to sit still through.

At the heart of it are Fahlon Palm (fiddle, viola) and Blake Palm (guitar), two conservatory-trained musicians who met earning their degrees at the University of Victoria before planting roots in the Okanagan. Around that duo they gather some of the valley's finest players, turning every show into a living, breathing jam where no two nights land the same. Their sound is a spirited fusion of Celtic, Métis, and pop — traditional jigs and reels cracked open and rebuilt with contemporary swing and an improviser's daring. Expect soaring fiddle, driving guitar, and tunes from their thirteen-track debut album Kuja, alongside beloved standards like "Skye Boat Song" and barn-burning reels that dare you to keep your feet still.

Between them, the Palms carry résumés spanning cross-Canada tours, major festival stages, and award-winning performances with some of the country's top musicians. But it's the room they build that lingers — warm, unguarded, and grinning from the first downbeat.

Clear a little space in your chest for the kind of joy only live fiddle music delivers. One night at The Dream. It's going to be a good one.

https://www.dreamsociety.ca/events/62/

Member pre-sales commence August 26. Public sales follow on September 23.

After a four year hiatus, Boy Golden is returning to Penticton for his debut performance at The Dream. Who is Boy Golden...
08/24/2026

After a four year hiatus, Boy Golden is returning to Penticton for his debut performance at The Dream. Who is Boy Golden, you ask? On the one hand, it is a moniker for a mysterious new artist, who is building buzz following major support for his track, "KD and Lunch Meat", from his debut album which hit #1 at Alternative radio in his home country of Canada, and major moments including his debut at Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, and opening for Jason Isbell, MJ Lenderman , and Joshua Ray Walker.

On the other hand, Boy Golden is also a conduit for songwriter Liam Duncan—a persona that allows him to create honestly and freely. For Duncan, Boy Golden grants access to an inner world only reachable through music. His three previous albums — the wistful For Eden, the rollicking For Jimmy, and the lemon-yellow-leisure-suited Church of Better Daze — served as a psychic clearing for Best of Our Possible Lives. This new work finds him mid-journey, reckoning with the self as it was, as it is, and as it can be.

Boy Golden states “The lines between him and I are soluble… Whether it is my spiritual beliefs, my way of living, my sexuality - it comes up in my writing and I am then forced to reckon with it.”

On what can only be described as an upward trajectory, this may be your final opportunity to see Boy Golden in an intimate environment like The Dream. The same can be said for the opening act, Field Guide . If you were lucky enough to see their show at The HUB on Martin in August, you'll know they alone are worth the price of this ticket. Both these artists have more than 100,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. If you're not one of them, you should be! Get your tickets early to avoid missing out on what is sure to be a memorable performance.

Member pre-sales start August 25. Public sales follow on September 22.

https://www.dreamsociety.ca/events/41/

Every so often a jazz musician comes along who makes you rethink what the bass is for. Aretha Tillotson is one of them. ...
08/21/2026

Every so often a jazz musician comes along who makes you rethink what the bass is for. Aretha Tillotson is one of them. The Edmonton-based bassist, composer, and bandleader has spent the last few years quietly becoming one of the most talked-about voices in Canadian jazz — and one listen to why is all it takes.

Her credentials read like a wish list: a JUNO nomination, a Western Canadian Music Award for Jazz Artist of the Year, a presidential scholarship to Berklee's elite Global Jazz program, and studies under giants like John Patitucci, Linda May Han Oh, and Joe Lovano. She's shared stages across North America with the likes of Kris Davis and The Jensen Sisters, and even held down the bass chair for Broadway's SIX.

At The Dream she brings her quartet — a bold, chord-less lineup in the daring tradition of Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman, where horns and rhythm converse with nothing to hide behind. Expect music from her acclaimed album Kinda Out West, a love letter to the prairies, mountains, and coastlines of Western Canada: compositions that swing hard, breathe wide open, and reward close listening at every turn.

This is jazz built on conversation — four musicians thinking out loud together, with Tillotson's warm, muscular bass anchoring every twist. Pull up close, order something good, and watch a rising star do her finest work. An evening for the ears and the imagination alike.

https://www.dreamsociety.ca/events/40/

Things are moving FAST at The Dream these days!!! We've had as many as ten people on site this week. Braeden and the res...
08/21/2026

Things are moving FAST at The Dream these days!!! We've had as many as ten people on site this week. Braeden and the rest of the crew from Betts Electric & Security Ltd have strung at least a mile of wire and conduit in the past week. Tucker and Ben from Hughes Design have been putting the finishing touches on our stages, bar arch, and banquette counters. Mark from Connections and Doug from Kettle Valley have got the water flowing. Dave Mai from DM Productions is finalizing our equipment list. We're not running out of things to do, but we're getting closer!

As you can see, we've now got all of our insulation up, as well as our Gyptone acoustic drywall. You don't need to be an audiophile to hear the difference. Anyone can tell, it's going to sound AMAZING when the music resumes. If you want to see/hear it for yourself, please drop by on Saturday during the Penticton Farmers Market.

On that subject, we still need a few more volunteers this week so, if you have a few hours to spare, volunteers, please sign up.

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67 Front Street
Penticton, BC
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