Punkstravaganza: The Dreadnoughts + Real McKenzies + Balkan Shmalkan + Distorted Times + Jeshua Marshall

The Dreadnoughts present Punkstravaganza VIIII
Friday, March 14th & Saturday, March 15th 2025
FRIDAY: The Dreadnoughts with The Real McKenzies, Distorted Times
SATURDAY: The Dreadnoughts with Balkan Shmalkan, Jeshua Marshall
The Rickshaw Theatre
19+
Doors: 7:00pm (both nights)

The Dreadnoughts return to the Rickshaw Theatre for another Punkstravagranza weekend with very special guests!

FRIDAY

Line Up: The Dreadnoughts with The Real McKenzies, Distorted Times

Friday Tickets: $30 + s/c adv

Ticket Link: punkstravafriday.eventbrite.ca

SATURDAY

Line Up: The Dreadnoughts with Balkan Shmalkan, Jeshua Marshall

Saturday Tickets: $30 + s/c adv

Ticket Link: punkstravasaturday.eventbrite.ca

TWO NIGHT PASS: $50 +s/c adv

Ticket Link: punkstravafriday.eventbrite.ca

THE DREADNOUGHTS

"The Dreadnoughts began to play folk-punk in 2007 with a single goal: to make enough money at shows to cover the cost of shots of Fireball Whiskey at Vancouver's notoriously seedy Ivanhoe Hotel. Ten years on and counting, they can boast of four studio albums, two EPs, and hundreds of unforgettable live shows spanning the globe. They've blended punk rock and a bunch of European folk traditions with a power and range that few other groups can match. And it's been a blast.
“The Dreadnoughts' set,” writes upvenue.com, “can be summarized in one word: outrageous.” If there's one thing this band is proud of, it's their live show, which follows the first (and only) rule of punk rock: keep it chaotic. There are no scripted intros. There is no choreography. No pre-prepared sound effects, light shows, or “how's everybody doing tonight?” Only six loud-mouthed extroverts aiming a series of punked-up folk dances at the audience… sometimes after an entirely unnecessary amount of liquor."

Website:

thedreadnoughts.com/
Facebook:

facebook.com/thedreadnoughts
Instagram:

instagram.com/thedreadnoughts/
Bandcamp:

thedreadnoughts.bandcamp.com/
YouTube:

youtube.com/user/thedreadnoughts
Twitter:

twitter.com/thedreadnoughts
Video:

youtube.com/watch?v=GDZlEyljclA

REAL MCKENZIES

Founded in 1992 by the larger than life, Scottish punk-rock poet laureate, Mr Paul McKenzie, this merry band of miscreants has spent a quarter century circumnavigating the globe to bring the McKenzies gospel to an ever-expanding throng of rebels, scallywags and ne'er do wells. There's not many bands that can boast of an over 30-year career as staggeringly adventurous, wildly tempestuous and utterly death-defying as The Real McKenzies. It would be a serious mistake to write them off as just another Celtic punk band (they've been around longer than the Dropkick Murphys after all).

Website:

realmckenzies.com/
Facebook:

facebook.com/therealmckenzies/
Instagram:

instagram.com/therealmckenzies/
Bandcamp:

therealmckenzies.bandcamp.com/album/beer-loathing
Twitter:

twitter.com/Real_McKenzies
Video:

youtube.com/watch?v=KYNMGR1HMrs

DISTORTED TIMES

Distorted Times is a DIY punk band from Portland Oregon consisting of members Kevin Hudson, Jay Crash, Ian Jackson, and Brit Kaplan. Members are veterans of such bands as Ground Score (PDX) PROBLEMS, Dirty Kid Discount, My Goldfish Ned, and more.

Website:

distortedtimes.com/

BALKAN SHMALKAM
Balkan Shmalkan is East Vancouver's sweet dance party orchestra; think global music with local attitude. Their funky brass dance beats are rooted in the aural traditions of the Roma and Klezmorim of Eastern Europe and blended with a mixture of pop and jazz.

Website:

balkanshmalkan.ca/
Facebook:

facebook.com/BalkanShmalkan
Instagram:

instagram.com/shmalkan/
Bandcamp:

balkanshmalkan.bandcamp.com/
YouTube:

youtube.com/channel/UCQgk-k6L_zOEV_P0-Yq7PrA
Twitter:

twitter.com/shmalkan
Video:

youtu.be/A3zPmPaVCKE

JESHUA MARSHALL

Most artists will tell you that they sing about what they feel. Jeshua Marshall lives the music that he sings. From the time he was nine, when he was first inspired by a visit from Jimi Hendrix in a dream and subsequently gifted his first guitar, through to the formation of his band Larry and His Flask and now, some 20 years later, music has been mainstay of his life, the thing that's inspired him, driven him and now, brought him to the precipice of the recognition he so decidedly deserves. A multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter, he conveys both passion and purpose in equal measure, a culmination of the hopes and aspirations that first fueled him as child in a family that split their time between the upper realms of the States and the sprawling southern environs of British Columbia.

Website:

jeshuamarshall.com