PWR/UP. The Best AC/DC You'll See Without a Time Machine! Young Lads with a Devilish passion for AC/DC, Bringing it to you with all the attitude and power of 1980 when AC/DC was Young and Hungry!

The Crazy Train of IKONS OF ROCK in the 70s & 80s.

Louisiana Hayride Show Farewell Tour
After 15 years of touring across western Canada, the time has come for the Louisiana Hayride Show to say goodbye.

Celebrate one last time with Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, Loretta & Conway, Crystal Gayle, Shania Twain and Lefty Frizzell. All these artists and more, in one magical night!

Creedence Clearwater Relived Returns to the VDPAC !! Saturday, September 13th, 2025 at 7:30 PM for a night of incredible music and nostalgia as Bad Moon Riders pay tribute to the legendary band, Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR).The electrifying Talent of Bad Moon Riders comprised of Members from BTO and Headpins, Deliver ALL the hits, ALL night long.! And it's All ages! Bring out the Kids!

Don't miss your last chance to see DZVINKA. Sold out across Western Canada, Tryzub's 50th Anniversary Tour returns to where it all started - the Okanagan Valley.

"Spectacular, emotionally gripping display of Ukrainian artistry." Susan McIver. Penticton Herald

"The choreography was so fast moving, I was almost literally gasping for breath", Barb Pettifer, Penticton

It feels safe to say that there seems no territory beyond the reach of Koyczan’s pen or of his heart. An artist whose work has transgressed genres and given breath to a new generation of voices, Shane Koyczan wears the mantle of human and dares others to discover what that means.

SIGNATURE Concert Series

Vernon & District Performing Arts Society Presents Chilliwack.

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Back by popular demand, the Gary Cable Project returns to rock the Okanagan with ORCHESTRAL ROCK ODYSSEY. Join us as we pump up the volume on a retro tribute to legendary artists and some of the most iconic music of all time, including the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Procol Harum, Lionel Ritchie, Toto, Whitney Houston, The Hollies, and more!

Local artists will be displaying their artwork through a variety of mediums and local authors will be on hand to discuss their work in our Okanagan Spirits Foyer. Local dance schools will be holding demos in our Marie Fleming Studio, as well as information booths. We invite local musicians and school bands to join us in the foyer and theatre front steps, in welcoming everyone to this free event!

Join the Heart Strings Ensemble and violinist Sophie Armstrong for an unforgettable evening of timeless classics and original compositions that blend classical precision with global influences, featuring tributes to legends and iconic pieces from Hollywood, and works by John Williams, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Vivaldi, and more.

Get ready to experience just how SWEET REGGAE can be.

Back by popular demand as VDPAC’s featured 24th Annual Birthday Bash season opener, Afrique en Cirque symbolizes the strength, agility, and joy of life found in African youth.

Rose’s work as garnered her two JUNO Awards (2013’s We Have Made a Spark & 2021’s Bravado), two Canadian Folk Music Awards, eleven East Coast Music Awards and one Grammy nomination (2018’s Natural Conclusion), along with praise from the likes of the CBC, No Depression, LA Times, Billboard, Folk Alley, and NPR, who raved “Cousins’ disarmingly fluid vocal tone has the ability to convey the most internalized feelings without an ounce of fuss.”

Step into a world of musical imagination with Blue Suede and Rhinestones: King of Rock meets the Queen of Country.

Step out of the house for an unforgettable evening with Peter Oldring and Pat Kelly (CBC Radio’s This is That) as they reunite with Carolyn Taylor (Baroness von Sketch Show). These comedy powerhouses come together for the first time since their early days at The Second City to deliver a delightfully absurd and wildly entertaining variety show.

Five Alarm Funk is Canada's premiere sonic and visual assault. With 20 years’ experience, in high voltage Funk infusion, FAF has carved a new path of live entertainment.

Hungry For Laughs Comedy Tour

Two master composers separated by 200 years, and a performance bursting with musical contrasts. Maria Fuller makes her OSO conducting debut in works by Mozart and Anna Clyne, one of the most in-demand living composers. Our own Martin Krátký is soloist in the soulfully melodic concerto DANCE; we conclude with Mozart’s most famous symphony.

With over seventy years of incredible live concert presentations, your North Okanagan Community Concert Association continues with its history of excellence.

Two iconic Latin superstars brought together on stage.

Celebrate the best in local business at the 41st Annual Business Excellence Awards! Join us as we honour outstanding organizations and individuals shaping Greater Vernon. From innovation to community impact, it's a night of inspiration, connection, and celebration. Don’t miss the most anticipated business event of the year!

Big Loud artist Dallas Smith has a track record of noteworthy success - from front man of Platinum-selling rock band Default to 3x consecutive CCMA Entertainer of the Year.

The award-winning improv comedians are back with a new show, more moves and even quicker wits.

A SHOW FOR ALL GENDERS… 19+ ONLY
WARNING! No extreme nudity, just extreme hilarity.

Get ready for an Rare Night of Legendary Rock'n Roll ! The Vernon & District Performing Arts Centre welcomes NAZARETH on their Canadian Farewell Tour on October 26, 2025. With over 50 years of iconic hits like Love Hurts, Hair of the Dog, and Razamanaz, Nazareth is taking one final tour across Canada.

Get ready for an electrifying night of pop anthems, heartbreak hits, and fierce rival vibes at Sweet and Sour – the ultimate Olivia Rodrigo vs. Sabrina Carpenter tribute show.

Whatever you think you know about autism, think again!

From award-winning director and choreographer Igor Dobrovolskiy, and multi-disciplinary artist Nipahtuwet Naka Wespahtuwet (Possesom) Paul (Wolastoqiyik, Sitansisk First Nation), Pisuwin is an epic first ever Wolastoq story-ballet set to the soaring music of Polaris Prize and JUNO Award-winning composer Jeremy Dutcher (Wolastoqiyik, Neqotkuk First Nation).

CHOIR! CHOIR! CHOIR! Presents: We Will CHOIR! You!: An EPIC QUEEN Sing-Along!

When it comes to EPIC anthems, it doesn’t get BIGGER than Queen! And nothing feels better than belting out their biggest hits with a room full of Queen fans! So unleash your inner Freddie Mercury, grab your best friends and frenemies, and create harmonies that will blow the roof off the place!

Jeremy Dutcher, is a classically-trained Canadian Indigenous tenor, composer, musicologist, performer and activist, who currently lives in Montréal, Québec. He became widely known for his ground breaking first album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa, which won the 2018 Polaris Music Prize and the JUNO Award for “Indigenous Music Album of the Year” at the 2019 JUNO Awards.

With over seventy years of incredible live concert presentations, your North Okanagan Community Concert Association continues with its history of excellence.

GoGo Penguin, the Manchester trio who inspirationally blend jazz, classical and electronic influences, return with a powerful new album, Necessary Fictions.

"DBX" : The Doobie Brothers Experience is the industry leading Canadian tribute to The Doobie Brothers. Playing to outdoor and theatre audiences is what this production is all about. If you love The Doobie Brothers - then welcome to "DBX" : The Doobie Brothers Experience and..."Listen To The Music".

A genre-defying evening with musical polymath Dinuk Wijeratne—composer, conductor, and pianist—blending classical, jazz, and Indian traditions. This concert will be performed without an intermission, Dinuk shares personal stories and performs music close to his heart, including Gajaga Vanama, a masterpiece for piano and strings inspired by his Sri Lankan heritage.

Over their 30-years, Canadian indie-rock heroes, SLOAN has amassed an outstanding 250+ songs, over 30 Singles on Canadian Rock Radio airplay, 9 JUNO nominations, (won Best Alternative Album in 1997), five East Coast Music Awards, and was named one of Canada's Top 5 All-Time Bands in CBC critics poll.

The Barra MacNeils – An East Coast Christmas is a musical potpourri of traditional MacNeil family favourites gleaned from Christmas ceilidhs, midnight masses and the general festive frolic that accompanies each holiday season.

Rocky Mountain High Christmas Returns!
Join us for a magical holiday matinee as A Rocky Mountain High Christmas returns to Vernon celebrating the music of John Denver with festive favourites and timeless classics. With special guests Melina Schein, Chad Abrahamson, a Youth Choir, all-star Canadian band, and symphony ensemble.

Alex Zerbe keeps coming back—And audiences keep wanting him back! Now you can experience the holiday magic like never before with A Zaniac Christmas! This heartwarming and side-splitting spectacle is designed to bring joy, laughter, and a truckload of whimsy to audiences of all ages!

Fans of Monty Python, Mr. Bean, and Dr. Seuss… Grab your teacups!

Combining British propriety with an unabashed love for the unexpected, London’s 3-time Impresario Award-winning duo steep an outrageously funny and brilliantly inventive show reminiscent of classic British pantos.

“Complete and utter fun for all ages.”

★★★★★ CBC

Canadian Country Music Award-winners George Canyon and Aaron Pritchett unite for “A Coast-to-Coast Cowboy Christmas” cross-Canada tour, delivering their chart-topping hits and your favourite holiday classics!

Freya joins the OSO and OSO Chorus for a heartwarming concert of original songs and new takes on beloved winter classics that celebrate the season’s beauty. This concert began as a small-town celebration and now welcomes Okanagan audiences to share a musical journey exploring connection, memories, and the cozy nostalgia of winter.

For one night, you get to experience what it would’ve been like to witness The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll live in the flesh.

VaughnCo Entertainment is proud to present ABBA REVISITED, North America’s #1 tribute to ABBA. Its members have been dazzling audiences across the globe since the year 2001. ABBA REVISITED recreates the magic of ABBA with authentic costumes, spectacular harmonies and note-perfect musicianship taking their audience on a musical journey back in time.

Fresh off her emerging star-revealing opening performance for Tom Cochrane’s Signature Concert at VDPAC in July, JIMI is undeniably a rising force in contemporary Rock, Country & Blues.

Choreography by Vernon’s own dance prodigy Cameron Fraser-Monroe, “T’əl (“Tull”), is a powerful fusion of Indigenous storytelling, contemporary ballet, and classical music—rooted in tradition and elevated for the stage.” -The Globe and Mail.

Perennial audience favourite, Ballet Jorgen returns with one of William Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies!

“From ballgown to banana belt, Tymisha Harris is a tour de force!”

“Music is indeed the most beautiful of all Heaven’s gifts,” wrote Tchaikovsky—and his monumental Symphony No. 5 embodies that spirit in full. In his conducting debut as music director, Julian Pellicano leads a program of symphonic masterpieces, including a special Side-by-Side performance with the Okanagan Symphony Youth Orchestra.

Four-time Juno nominee and modern-day Renaissance woman Sarah Slean is coming to The Vernon & District Performing Arts Centre.

With String Quartet

British playwright Payne takes the traditional boy-meet-girl tale and flips it on its head by plunging both characters into the multiverse, where their love story is played out in all its variations.

With over seventy years of incredible live concert presentations, your North Okanagan Community Concert Association continues with its history of excellence.

The 21st Annual I Am Woman, Hear Me Laff! Comedy Show.

Beloved by Okanagan audiences, pianist Ian Parker returns—this time to the podium—to lead a program focused on Felix Mendelssohn. Following last season’s performance of his Italian Symphony, Parker conducts Mendelssohn’s dramatic Scottish Symphony. Pianist Roman Rabinovich, winner of the Arthur Rubinstein Competition, takes us on a journey with Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1.

Eagle Eyes are "THE" tribute to the Eagles. Eagle Eyes vocals are exacting and their performance leave their audiences spellbound and wanting more!

With over seventy years of incredible live concert presentations, your North Okanagan Community Concert Association continues with its history of excellence.

The Myrtle Sisters had always dressed, sang, danced, talked and even eaten the same. They could hardly tell themselves apart until one day through a hilarious and unexpected series of calamities their secret uniqueness was revealed! Can they keep these oddities from one another? Will they still be part of the trio if their differences are discovered?

Ballet Kelowna triumphantly returns with Alysa Pires’ wildly successful theatrical ballet, Macbeth!

RibbitRePublic Theatre brings the smash Fringe comedy hit AWOL, starring UK comedian, poet (and former nurse!) writer Rob Gee, and 30-year veteran performer Jon Paterson.

Attention Elton John fans! Moon Coin Productions (Producers of ABBA Tribute “ABRA Cadabra” and Eagles Tribute “Take It To The Limit”) Presents The Rocket Man – A Tribute to Elton John from Vancouver performing in Vernon for the 1st time on March 22, 2026.

With over seventy years of incredible live concert presentations, your North Okanagan Community Concert Association continues with its history of excellence.

A Western Canadian Music “Entertainer of the Year”, VDPAC favourite, and much-loved, globe-trotting multi-award nominee, master pianist and songwriter, Michael Kaeshammer returns with his band to dazzle and delight his many fans.

Jamie Adkins is a performer in the vaudeville tradition of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. With no hi-tech distractions, his irresistible character heroically battles with the everyday objects of life, permanently on the verge of disaster… moving but hilarious.

Experience the symphony that changed music forever. Shocking at the time of its premiere with its emotional intensity, today Beethoven’s 5th is one of the world’s most recognizable works of art. After more than a decade, the OSO returns to this iconic masterpiece to close the season with this monument of musical expression. This concert also features the OSO Chorus in Ola Gjeilo’s Sunrise Mass, a profound and expressive journey, full of soaring melodies and walls of sonic power.

They’re Back! Winner of the Opus Award for “Production of the Year-Younger Audiences”

Fleetwood Magic, Canada's Authentic Tribute to Fleetwood Mac, transports audiences on a musical journey performing their greatest hits with exacting vocals and vintage costumes. Fleetwood Magic does indeed deliver the magic!