{"id":1109,"date":"2025-10-10T08:57:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2025-10-10T15:55:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T22:55:28","slug":"tickets-are-now-available-for-the-big-mess-concert-opening-for-valdy-on-november-7th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/10\/tickets-are-now-available-for-the-big-mess-concert-opening-for-valdy-on-november-7th\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Mess concert tickets!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s the link for tickets to VALDY and The BIG Mess <br>(sold thru The Port Theatre)<br><a href=\"https:\/\/share.google\/ULrMDuL7xg9gIrFwl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Tickets available thru the Port Theatre\"><strong><em>Tickets available now!!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.porttheatre.com\/site\/assets\/files\/2701\/92f8230d-5d97-4d70-b4c8-8676478506ff.1600x0p50x50.jpg\" alt=\"VALDY and The BIG Mess\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>St Andrew&#8217;s United Church <\/strong>315 Fitzwilliam St., Nanaimo<br><strong><em>7:00pm<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>All seats $35.00<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Ticket prices include all taxes and fees<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/share.google\/ULrMDuL7xg9gIrFwl\" title=\"\">Buy Tickets<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>St.AUC Events presents <\/em><br><strong>VALDY Live at St. Andrew&#8217;s United Church <\/strong><br><strong>with opening act: &#8220;The BIG Mess&#8221;<\/strong><br><br><strong>The Big Mess:<\/strong><br>Since 2011, Kyle Shepard and his dad, Marty (aka The BIG Mess) have been delighting audiences from ages 3 to 103 with their unique spin on songs drawn from blues, Latin, pop, jazz, swing, musical theatre, electronic (&amp; even classical) music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>They&#8217;re named The BIG Mess for two reasons:<\/em><br>1. They play a big mess of musical styles, and mess with them in their own big messy ways.<br>2. They honour that being a big mess is a quintessential part of being human.<br>Celebrate THE MESS!<br><br>Kyle Shepard has sung with a variety of musicians, including Joelle Rabu, Nico Rhodes, and Andrew Homzy&#8217;s Disney does Da Jazz orchestra and the NOLA Nighthawks. Theatrically, Kyle Shepard has performed major roles in Rocky Horror Show and The Little Mermaid.<br><br>Marty Shepard was born &amp; raised way too long ago in Chicago, Illinois. As one of the original members of REO Speedwagon, he has also enjoyed tootin&#8217; his trumpet with Brooke Maxwell&#8217;s Planet Swing &amp; El SuperBando, Joelle Rabu &amp; Nico Rhodes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Valdy<\/strong> born Valdemar Horsdal in Ottawa, Canada has been part of the fabric of Canadian pop and folk music for almost 40 years. A man with a thousand friends, from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island to Texas to New Zealand, he&#8217;s a singer, guitarist and songwriter who catches the small but telling moments that make up life.<br><br>Remembered for Play Me a Rock and Roll Song, his bitter-sweet memory of finding himself, a relaxed and amiable story-teller, facing a rambunctious audience at the Aldergrove Rock Festival circa 1968, Valdy has sold almost half a million copies of his 13 albums, has two Juno Awards (Folk Singer of the Year and Folk Entertainer of the Year), a total of seven Juno nominations and four Gold albums to his credit.<br><br>Valdy&#8217;s recent CDs include Contenders, a collaboration with friend and fellow singer-songwriter, Gary Fjellgaard, with whom he has an absolute blast touring, and a solo release, Viva Valdy: Live at Last , a two-CD package, one live, one studio, with a total of 25 tunes, and a lyric booklet.<br><br>One of Canada s most influential songwriters, Valdy&#8217;s composition A Good Song was recorded under the title Just a Man by the venerable Quincy Jones (he sang lead on the recording!). Play Me a Rock and Roll Song has been recorded by a few artists, including John Kay of Steppenwolf.<br><br>Along the way, Valdy has taken his music to a dozen different countries, from Denmark to Australia and been an often-invited performer at the prestigious Kerrville Festival in Texas. His past television appearances include Canada AM and Open Mike with Mike Bullard. Valdy has also been a panelist on Front Page Challenge, and played a lead role in an episode of The Beachcombers original series.<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the link for tickets to VALDY and The BIG Mess (sold thru The Port Theatre)Tickets available now!! St Andrew&#8217;s United Church 315 Fitzwilliam St., Nanaimo7:00pm St.AUC Events presents VALDY Live at St. Andrew&#8217;s United Church with opening act: &#8220;The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/10\/tickets-are-now-available-for-the-big-mess-concert-opening-for-valdy-on-november-7th\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1120,"href":"https:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions\/1120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}