by Joe Belanger
Sloan and Ivory Hours headline the Rockin’ New Year’s celebrations at London’s Victoria Park.
Thousands of Londoners young and old are expected to converge at the park for an early children’s party and fireworks, followed by the rock groups and a second fireworks display to bring in the New Year.
Glee London will dance and sing ahead of a junior-bedtime fireworks display at 9 p.m.
Then the London-based alt-pop band, Ivory Hours, take the stage.
The band features guitarist and singer Luke Roes, bassist Chris Levesque and drummer Thomas Perquin. They won CFNY 102.1 the Edge’s Next Big Thing contest out of 442 bands from across Canada.
The honour came after the release of their album, Morning Light, followed by a win of the Canada’s Walk of Fame Emerging Artist Mentorship Program. The band has announced a North American tour for spring 2016.
They will be followed by the headliners, Sloan, nominated for 10 Juno Awards over a career that began in 1991. In 1997, they won the Juno for best alternative album for One Chord to Another.
The Toronto-based rock/power pop quartet from Halifax including Chris Murphy, Patrick Pentland, Jay Ferguson and Andrew Scott, have released 13 albums during the years and 35 singles, of which several reached the Top 10 on the Canadian charts.
--taken from: The London Free Press
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