Canadian country music artist Codie Prevost, who has received a total of 26 Saskatchewan Country Music Association awards in his career, is getting ready for his summer tour that will start off with the concert at the Souris Valley Theatre’s Frehlick Hall on June 13.
It will also serve as the kickoff to the theatre’s 30th anniversary season.
“The Estevan show is the trio show, meaning there is myself and then a multi-instrumentalist and background vocalist, and then also a percussion player. So it’s going to be three of us on stage that night. It’s going to be a lot of fun,” promised Prevost in the interview with Lifestyles.
Prevost is not new to Estevan. The last time he was playing here was at the grand re-opening of the Woodlawn Regional Park festival in 2013. Now he is looking forward to checking out the acoustics at a different venue.
“I’ve never played at the Souris Valley Theatre, but I had a chance to perform at other theatres throughout the province. And every time you get to perform at the theatre, it’s such a privilege because some of them old theatres and theatres in these communities are amazing and they offer some of the best sound that I’ve ever heard. And just this atmosphere, it creates this great time for people to come together and to have a good night,” said Prevost.
To start his music career Prevost took out a small business loan to travel to Nashville and record his first independent album The Road Ahead. He played in smaller towns all over Saskatchewan being paid $100 a night, and he always appreciated venues, communities and atmosphere.
The show he is getting ready to perform for the Estevan crowd promises to very exciting.
“With the trio show, we like to have a lot of fun… One of our favourite things to do is to involve as many people out of the crowd as we can in the show and make them feel just as much a part of the show as the band is… We’ll get people singing, we’ll get people to dance. We might even get a couple of people on stage, you just never know. Anything can really happen in this show,” said Prevost.
He also noted that on the night of the show they will play a little bit of everything, reminding the crowd of the best hits and songs from his first album released back in 2005. They also will introduce some of the newer songs, intertwining the music with stories about his musical adventure.
After the Estevan show Prevost will head out to the States, where he will be performing an acoustic solo show. The program is called the Meet and Greet Tour.
“It’s like an introduction to my music and my stories and kind of me as an artist,” said Prevost.
The upcoming concerts get him excited. They’ve been doing some press releases out in the U.S. and have already sold quite a few tickets. He will travel the States for two weeks and then will go back again in August. Later in the year, Prevost also plans to once again go to Australia, the country that he’s been touring once or twice a year since 2015.
Currently, he is residing in the Saskatoon area, where besides other things he is working on his new online fan club.
“I’ve been working on it for over a year now… It’s hopefully going to be launched within the next couple weeks, hopefully, it should be launched by the time we come to Estevan... It will be like my own personal social network, where all my fans who support me online, who support my music and who come to the shows can join on there and become a part of one big family,” said Prevost.
The online fan club members will have access to exclusive music and will get to hear some songs he writes before anybody else.
“There is just going be so many exclusive things that other people won’t be seeing that aren’t involved in that. But that’s the way to appreciate my fans who have been there from day one because I really wouldn’t be doing music without all of them,” said Prevost.
The name of the fan club will be coming as a surprise soon.
Prevost has recently released his new album called Radio and the tour will also help to get this music out to the fans and promote it.
“It’s an album that I’ve worked on for a couple of years and I was fortunate this year. Saskatchewan Country Music Awards just took place and the album Radio received the Album of the Year there. So it’s already been a pretty exciting start for the year,” said Prevost.
He plans to start working on new music as soon as he is done with the tours at the beginning of the next year.
Tickets for the Prevost concert in Estevan are available online through www.sourisvalleytheatre.ca and codieprevost.com.
