The festival will take place July 18-20, 2025 at The Fish &  Game Park in Fort Macleod, AB

2025 Festival Schedule

SCF 50/50!

Don’t miss your chance to win some cash while also supporting your favourite homegrown festival! Funds raised by this raffle will help support the fair community and keep SCF running strong for years to come.

1 FOR $5.00

5 FOR $20.00

SCF Quilt Raffle

This stunning work of art was created with immeasurable skill and love by our friends at Dragon Heart Quilt Shop. T-shirts were donated by Heartcore Volunteers and stitched into an incredible new form to keep you warm. It measures 100×108 in. and features a wonderfully cozy flannel back beautifully quilted with music notes. Check it out on display at the Volunteer Lounge and purchase a ticket for your chance to take it home!

$20 per ticket

Quilt valued at $1635

Purchase your 50/50 Tickets Here: https://www.rafflebox.ca/raffle/scfaquilt

AGLC Raffle License #: 743231

Ticket sales for 50/50 and Raffle end: August 15th, 2025, 5:00 pm MST, Draw date: Wednesday August 18, 2025, 5:00 pm MST, Draw location: Online

You must live in Alberta and be 18 years old or older to purchase a ticket. The draw and winning numbers will be posted on the SCF website. The winner will be contacted to claim the prize.Thank you for your support and good luck!

ARTIST BIOS

Apollo Suns

Friday, July 18th, East Stage, 10:10-11:10PM

Apollo Suns is a 7-piece instrumental collective from Winnipeg, Manitoba. The band fuses the influence of jazz, rock and psychedelic music, to create their own unique sounds with the dancefloor in mind. Best known for their high-octane live shows, Apollo Suns have captivated audiences at Winnipeg Jazz Festival, Salmon Arm Roots and Blues, Kispiox Valley Music Festival, Vermont Jazz Fest, and Calgary Stampede.

Badlands

Saturday, July 19th, Cottonwood Stage, Workshop w/ Tin & the Toad, 3:15-4:15PM

Saturday, July 19th, Feature Set, East Stage, 10:10-11:10PM

Lethbridge based alt country quartet Badlands pays homage to the near desert like conditions in southern Alberta. The band’s namesake provides a fitting backdrop to Ali Cat’s songwriting musings that explore personal struggles, triumphs and temptations. It’s the same distilled spirit that raised the likes of Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, the Turnpike Troubadours and others to come before.

Bobby Tenderloin Universe

Captain Tractor

Friday, July 18th, South Stage, 11:20PM-12:20AM

If there is a band that represents the soundtrack of the community and longevity of South Country Fair, it has to be Captain Tractor. The group has performed countless times at the Fair since 1995, and this year will be ever-more exciting as they return to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their iconic album ‘East of Edson’.  After years of skirmishes near the borders of roots, pop, punk and rock, these prairie revolutionaries combine it all into an unmistakeable, completely original, utterly infectious, and energetic pop sound… or folk-pop-celtic-punk-rock, if you will.  Easily one of the most iconic acts to grace the SCF stage, their high energy performance and legendary prairie anthems will ring through the Old Man Riverbottom once again and, as always, it will take days for the dance floor dust to settle.

Gillian Moranz

Saturday, July 19th, Cottonwood Stage, Moranz Family Values feat. Makiisma, 1:05-2:05PM

Saturday, July 19th, Feature Set, South Stage 6:40-7:40PM

Gillian Moranz is an Alberta-born singer-songwriter, musician, artist, and arts presenter currently based in Vancouver, BC. Heavily influenced by master storytellers and poetic outlaws alike, words have always been her greatest love. Perched somewhere between Leonard Cohen and Patti Smith, Martha Wainwright and Mazzy Star, Moranz is a wordsmith hell-bent on forging her own unique style with a tip-of-the-hat reverence. Her smokey vocals weave through the cracks of poetic fragments where hard-earned lyrics uncover the profound hidden in plain sight.

Henry Wagons

Saturday, July 19th, South Stage, 11:20PM-12:20AM

Henry Wagons is a true renaissance man, with a unique swagger reminiscent of a day when front men gave back bucket loads of charm and were shrouded in enigmatic mystery. Unanimously lauded as one of one of Australia’s great entertainers, a Henry Wagons show is a true sight to behold.

Drawing on a broad-ranging swag of influences, Henry’s show is a high sensation roller coaster ride that ranges from the bluster of sweaty jumpsuit era Elvis, post karate kicks, to the somber, drunken malaise of Lee Hazlewood. He can touch on the tenderness of a recently heart-broken Roy Orbison while simultaneously embracing the menace of Nick Cave.

Joce Reyome

Friday, July 18th, South Stage, 5:30-6:30PM

Joce Reyome has been captivating audiences with their dynamic performances on stages throughout the east coast of Canada, where they now call home. Reyome discovered their true passion in the rhythmic world of music, where they honed their skills. Reyome is a genuine, soulful performer, bringing authenticity to their shows and turning audiences into active participants in a journey through heartbreak and humour.

Tremoloco

Saturday, July 19th, South Stage, 9:00-10:00PM

Tremoloco is a L.A. based band that draws from the sounds of Tex-Mex, Country, Zydeco, Folklorico, Folk and Blues in a blend of original and traditional songs best described as Gulf Coast Folklorico. Adept at playing anything from a Cajun waltz, Texas shuffle, country ballad or rocking blues number to a Mexican polka, ranchero or cumbia, this diversity allows the band to cover a wide range of exciting and eclectic styles. Though based in traditional musical forms the band has an undeniably modern edge in both songwriting and musicianship, and and they bring this exciting alchemy to every live performance.

Shaela Miller

Friday, July 18th, South Stage,  9:00-10:00PM

Lethbridge’s very own Shaela Miller spent years doing good country music work are safely etched into public consciousness. A turn at this point is by no means an undoing, but a welcome lead into new waters. Her rising profile is being amplified by a sonic reintroduction to one of Canada’s best voices and most sincere stage personalities. On the heels of TV placements like HBO’s True Blood, CBC’s Heartland, top-tier festival circuiting, supporting Matthew Good’s tour and upcoming Canadian headlining tour, Shaela sets aside (at least for now) her Loretta Lynn likeness in favour of the synth-laden corridors of a new sonic pathway. As Shaela herself puts it, “After The Masquerade is a trip back to where it all started for me. Except this time, with years of musical experience, wisdom, and capabilities of delivering my heart’s desire. It’s an homage to the music that inspired me in my youth, and continues to inspire me today”.

Shane Ghostkeeper

Friday, July 19th, East Stage, 7:50-8:50PM

Shane Ghostkeeper is a musician from Calgary, Alberta, most recognized for his songwriting, singing and guitar playing in the band Ghostkeeper. Shane spent his childhood and adolescence years isolated by Northern Alberta’s geography (High Level, Rocky Lane and Paddle Prairie Metis Settlement), listening to country music records and developing an admiration for individuals who had the ability to convey rich stories through song. Later he expanded his musical horizons beyond these roots, he found another world in the self-aware genres of art rock and experimental folk. Here, he developed his own storytelling language with which he could voice the traditional songwriting he grew up with. And now he comes full circle with years of education and experimentation to make his first Country music inspired record. This exploration of Country music is a dedication and tribute to his family and the stories they share.

Tim Isberg

Saturday, July 19th, East Stage, 5:30-6:30PM

Originally from southern Alberta, Tim Isberg is an accomplished singer-songwriter, veteran soldier and multiple award nominee. From Rwanda to Afghanistan and other deployments in-between, Tim experienced the best and worst humanity has to offer. Tim brings an Americana style blend of well-crafted Alt-country, Roots and Contemporary Folk songs to the stage along with an appealing vocal timbre and an array of life experiences he shares in a way that makes each listener feel connected. With genuine sincerity and a sense of humour carefully woven through stories and songs, it is Tim’s live show – whether solo or with his full band – where he shines most.

Tin and the Toad

Saturday, July 19th, East Stage, 7:50-8:50PM

Tin and the Toad hail from the great plains of western Canada with a sound that rumbles like a freight train and whispers like the wind. Songs of whiskey, campfires, horses and broke-down equipment ramble into tales of love and loss rooted in western tradition yet deranged by the modern world. Four unique songwriters create a dynamic that blends together with an honest and authentic sense of community and passion expressed in four-part harmony with ease and familiarity. Travelling and performing across western Canada from their home province of Alberta, earning their spots on stages at folk festivals, ranch parties and rodeo dances to share their songs and stories with a variety of fine people…..and livestock. The hats they wear on stage are the hats they wear off-stage.

Awareness Facilitators

Glow Flow Jam with Megan Fester

Belly Dancing with Maddy

Nitistapii Landscapes Presentation and Exhibit

Iitisnohtispiyaki Rebecca Many Grey Horses, storyteller, knowledge holder, and writer will present on
the Nitistapii Landscapes sites and places. Many sites throughout Blackfoot territory hold significant sites and places from the North Saskatchewan River to the Yellowstone River in Montana. Since time immemorial the Nitistapii people have called Southern Alberta their home, travelling the area guided by the seasonal rounds to sustain from the land and resources. The Nitistapii people have a strong spiritual connection to the land and the sacred sites, ensuring the protection and preservation remained. Each of the sites presented hold stories, memories, and language descriptions passed on from our ancestors.

The presentation will focus on ten sites and Rebecca will share her stories of each of the places as told to her by her parents, elders and the research shared with her. The Nitistapii Landscape exhibits were developed by the Galt Museum and Archives. The co-curators are Rebecca Many Grey Horses, Dr. Mike Bruised Head and Bobbie Fox. There are three exhibits consisting of ten sites each, the project started in 2021 with the first exhibit, two more followed with Exhibit 3 opening last August 2024. Rebecca Many Grey Horses is from the Blood Reserve, her extensive experience as knowledge holder of the Blackfoot culture and history started as a child being raised by her parents and elders with the traditional upbringing. Rebecca has a MA in Jurisprudence in Indian (Indigenous) law and has developed Blackfoot history programs for many organizations. Dr. Mike Bruised Head co-curator, is a well-known Blood Tribe elder for the sacred societies of the Blackfoot confederacy. He has graduated from the University of Lethbridge with a Doctorate of Philosophy. In addition to being well educated Mike is fully knowledgeable of the Blackfoot history, language and culture. Bobbie Fox is the Archives Assistant for the Galt Museum and very receptive to working with elders and knowledge holders to develop programs and exhibits. The Nitistapii Landscape exhibits are designed to travel and is available on loan to schools, libraries, community groups, and smaller rural museums/galleries around southern Alberta.

CHAKRADANCE w/ Jennie Campbell

Date/Time: Saturday, July 19th @ 2:30PM and Sunday, July 20th @ 2PM

Based on the 4000-year old system of the chakras that form the backbone of Eastern philosophies, including yoga and acupuncture, Chakradance is an effective, anyone-can-do-it, way to de-stress and rebalance your inner energies. CHAKRADANCE™ has already been well received by many all over the world, including the Chopra Center in California. All chakra imbalances are the result of stuck energy. It might be from the foods we eat, the toxins we breathe or from the shocks, traumas and emotions we experience.

The key to healing the chakras is to dance them. As we dance each chakra, it’s as though we shine a spotlight on a specific area of our lives. As the energy moves it can cause old memories to surface, as well as feelings, sensations, images, insights, and a heightened awareness into situations in our lives. As we clear each chakra, we heal the associated problems in our lives.