The BreakOut West 2010 Festival (formerly called the “Western Canadian Music Awards”) is taking place October 21-23 in Kelowna, BC and Acres Of Lions has been selected to perform at two separate showcases: Thursday, October 21 – O’Flannigan’s @ 11PM Friday, October 22 – Cush @ 7PM Other performers at the festival include: You Say Party, The Dudes, Said The Whale, The Zola’s, We Are The City, Dojo Workhorse, Vince Vacarro, and many more. You can gain access to the festival by purchasing a Festival Wristband. Festival Wristbands can be purchased at any festival venue for $20 and will allow you access to all venues for all shows for the entire weekend! (if you want to go to just one venue it’s $10 at the door) For more information, check >> read more

Today at 3PM, Acres Of Lions will be on The Zone 91.3 FM in Victoria with DJ Jeremy Baker to play the band’s brand new single. For those of you not in Victoria, you can listen to The Zone’s online stream. >> read more

For those of you who haven’t already heard, Acres Of Lions has been involved in an amazing artist development project over the past couple months called the Peak Performance Project. The goal of the project is to help 20 musicians from British Columbia get more exposure, improve their skills, and provide them with some financial support – including a top prize of $100,500! The project started with a $3500 grant for all 20 artists, and continued through a week long band “boot camp” retreat that got the artists re-thinking their strategies about everything from songwriting to marketing. Over the course of the project the artists had to perform various showcases and challenges, and now we’ve arrived to the final component which is online voting. The voting will make up a >> read more

Want to hear a sneak preview of Acres Of Lions new single before it gets released? Just follow these simple steps to help us support the MusiCounts charity… 1. Find a camera 2. Record yourself saying “I’m ____ ____ and I support Acres Of Lions and MusiCounts” 3. Upload the video to youtube (unlisted) 4. Email the link to: musicounts@acresoflions.com We’ll send you a personalized link to where you can check out the new single! For those who don’t know, MusiCounts is an amazing organization that raises money for music programs in schools across Canada. Acres Of Lions is trying to not only raise money, but also raise awareness for what MusiCounts is doing, so we plan to take all your videos and edit them together with footage of us >> read more

Friends! So good to see all of you this past weekend! This week we are recovering from the 3rd chapter of a Victoria-based event known as “RIFFLANDIA.” The capital letters say it all. It was immense and fantastic! The festival started 3 years ago and we have had the honor of being one of the many artists who have performed this year and last. We feel that Rifflandia is important to the Victoria community and it has certainly grown by leaps and bounds, each year it gets bigger and better, and the amount of talent it draws is simply outstanding… and not just musicians either, every artist alike attends this thing and makes it the best it can be. And this year, on Thursday, September 23rd, we were fortunate enough >> read more