{"id":11510,"date":"2015-08-05T14:40:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T18:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=11510"},"modified":"2015-09-09T09:17:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T13:17:44","slug":"chilliwack-and-the-spoons-to-headline-ribfest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/chilliwack-and-the-spoons-to-headline-ribfest-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilliwack and The Spoons to headline Ribfest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aurora residents may feel a wave of nostalgia when they take in the Town\u2019s 2015 Ribfest.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian rock bands Chilliwack and The Spoons were announced Wednesday as the headliners for this year\u2019s event, which takes place at Machell Park September 11 \u2013 13. <\/p>\n<p>Chilliwack released twelve albums over a 15 year period producing numerous Canadian and international hits. All this work led to 15 gold and platinum certificates, a host of awards, high profile TV appearances and coliseum concert tours. <\/p>\n<p>The Spoons are a Canadian new wave synthpop formed in 1979 in Burlington. They recoded several Canadian chart hits between 1982 and 1989, and in 1983 they won Group of the Year at the U-Know awards. Early in the band\u2019s career, they opened for The Police, Joan Jett and toured with Culture Club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite Chilliwack having 12 albums and 19 platinum awards, they are, in my opinion, a timeless classic,\u201d says Shelley Ware, Special Events Coordinator for the Town of Aurora. \u201cAll ages are still huge fans of them. In fact, booking them was a challenge because of how much they are currently in demand. I think this is going to be a really good experience, especially for the residents of Aurora.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Spoons actually launched their 30th anniversary tour this year. With a lot of people I was speaking to in testing out audience appeal, The Spoons played a lot of high schools in Aurora many years ago and so I am really hoping to be able to provide a treat to those who saw them and give them a nostalgic feel. I am pretty confident The Spoons are going to impress the community. Their performance level right now is extremely strong, extremely well-scripted. I think if you\u2019re not a Spoons fan, you will be by the end of the concert.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chilliwack will perform the evening of Friday, September 11, and The Spoons will perform the following evening at 9 p.m. After 8 p.m. on the Friday and Saturday Ribfest is only open to those 18 years of age and older who have purchased \u2013 and are wearing \u2013 a valid wristband. <\/p>\n<p>Wristbands cost $5 each and are sold at the Aurora Family Leisure Complex and the Stronach Aurora Recreation Complex, as well as on-site at Machell Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aurora residents may feel a wave of nostalgia when they take in the Town\u2019s 2015 Ribfest.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian rock&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-06-08.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}