Hello Bills fans and friends everywhere! Can you believe it? Well, it’s true, our energized acoustic quintet is officially turning 30 – crazy! And what better way to launch a year of celebrations than with a run of gigs close to home. We’ll be playing festival and summer series shows in Nanaimo, Victoria, Harrison Hot Springs and Parksville over the next couple months, with more show announcements to come for the Fall and into 2027! Check the shows page and our social media, and come on out to celebrate with us!
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The Party in Port Hardy – Concert Time!
The Bills are back on the North Island! Hope to see everyone there at the Port Hardy Civic Centre, 7 pm, Saturday, November 18th. If you need a lift, take this opportunity to hear us in full swing, waltz, bluegrass and beyond! So many original, West Coast Canadian classics, interspersed with global acoustic music to make you sway and sing.
Here we come!
The Bills launch Evergreen Season – Sept 16th!
If you’re anywhere near the Lower Mainland, don’t miss this chance to catch The Bills as we help the fabulous EverGreen Cultural Centre launch their 2023-24 season on Saturday, September 16th!
All the info you need is right here: https://evergreenculturalcentre.ca/events/2023-season-launch/
With opener Little Fox, the Evergreen Art Gallery opening, and more!
2023 Shows Coming Up!
Come see the Bills at some amazing venues – starting with fabled Butchart Gardens on Wednesday, July 5th!
We’ll then swoop through the Lower Mainland in mid-September: more info coming shortly!
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And here we come!
The “shows” page is starting to slowly reveal some of the exciting shows the band has coming up in 2019/20. Check it out and we very much hope to see you out there. We have a lot of things to catch up on!
Coming right up – a handful of late summer shows
Hey Bills friends, fans and funky fiends,
That band will finally play a few 2018 shows, starting at Butchart Gardens, August 29, then continuing with NW Djangofest and a short hop through California in September. Watch for show announcements and some fun live videos coming up soon!
A Handful of Big 20th Bday Celebration Shows
Come one, come all. This is it: Vancouver, Courtenay, Chemanius, Victoria, then, right before the end of the year, we slip out to Chicago, Lansing, MI, Toronto, Kingston and Ottawa (at least!), to really rock some 20th anniversary acoustic roots party music! See the Shows page, tell your friends and family, and please come join us! Let’s hear it for decade #3!
Our 20th Summer!
Do any of you recall the first summertime experience you had with The Bills, or The Bill Hilly Band for that matter?
Jasper Folk Fest, 2001? Pagliacci’s 1998? The Charles Bridge, Prague, 1997? Mariposa Folk Fest, 2007? Perhaps the Tonder Folk Fest in Denmark, 2004, or Cambridge Festival, UK, 2005? Vancouver in 2003, 2004 or 2016?
So many great memories, and just more to be made. We hope we’ll see some of you out there between now and September 22nd, at the official tail end of summer, when we’ll be playing a very special show that we’ll be announcing soon through various social media channels. Until then, we’re at the fabled Islands Folk Fest for their 33rd offering, and way up at the Bear Creek Festival in Grande Prairie, a fairly new event that’s just picking up wonderful summer steam. Then look out September, when we really get rocking.
Come join us for the celebrations, folks. We’re launching our third decade and celebrating the first two in full force!
20th Anniversary Rolls On!
Hey friends and fans,
We’re gearing up for some great Spring and early Summer shows on our year-long 20th anniversary escapade! See you soon on wee Piers Island, in Bragg Creek, AB, and then down in rocking California, from Santa Cruz to Ojai, and even a dip into Nevada, to have some fun with the fine folks at the Carson Valley Arts Council!
Lots more to come this year, as we roll out the hits, new and old. Watch for more special announcements of extraordinary shows – we feel the building buzz of our folkharmonic 20 years, launching us into the next two decades! Hope to see you at the shows!
Kicking off our 20th Anniversary
Happy New Year, from The Bills!
Yep, you got it folks – 2017 marks 20 years since The Bills became a touring act. Hard to believe that in 1997 the band struck out across Europe for 9 weeks of formative, high-energy performing, creating the foundation of our unique approach to seeking folk/roots magic in everything we do.
We start the year’s celebrations with our friends to the south in January, hitting Washington, Oregon and Wyoming (yes, Wyoming in January!), then zooming a wee bit north and east to Prince George for the Coldsnap festival and to Alberta to get reacquainted with some of the towns that have been so good to us since the start: Canmore, Calgary and Edmonton (St Albert). Lots more to come as this year of celebration rolls on. Check out the “Shows” page and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to keep up with all the gigs and shenanigans. Hope to see you out there!