Anyone who remembers Nattypalooza will want to circle July 18 on their calendar for a show by Freedom Ride at The Max.

The drummer for the metal band is Nat Green, who put together the annual day-long concert, as well as providing a home-away-from-home for so many skateboarders in his Greenhouse Board Shop.

The rest of the band includes Devin McManus and Cory Bellis on guitars and vocals and James Weekes on bass.

McManus and Bellis were with Green in an earlier band, Hezakya.

It’s Freedom Ride’s first show outside Vancouver.

The show goes from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. at the 205 Lorne St. venue. Tickets are $5 in advance at the Lemonade Stand, 253 Tranquille Rd., or $10 at the door.

This is a 19-and-over show.

To hear the band, go online to myspace.com/freedomriderocks.

Un Nouveau show

Arnica Nouveau, the first exhibition of the Arnica Artist Run Centre at the Old Courthouse, 7 Seymour St. W., ends on Thursday.

The next exibition is Coloring Book by Salmon Arm artist Amy Modahl, which opens on July 16 at 6 p.m.

Gallery hours are Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

It’s carnival time downtown

The sixth annual community carnival, sponsored by the Kamloops Central Business Improvement Association, is on July 16 in the 300-block of Victoria Street.

Participating non-profit agencies will host carnival-style games or contests at their booths to engage people while promoting their services.

Merchants on the block also get involved and all the money raised goes to charity.

Keep to the music

Cellist Corbin Keep performs at the Leisure Loft, 255 Victoria St., on Aug. 5 at 8 p.m., along with Ben Nielsen.

Keep, originally from Seattle, started playing guitar as a child, moving on to cello in later years — but it’s not your typical cello-playing.

Keep has spent much of time developing the eclectic abilities of the acoustic cello.

Consider these lyrics to his song Aliens: “Aliens, why do I like them? Maybe I am one. I don’t know. Aliens, do they listen to talk radio when they drive their UFOS? Aliens what would I feed them if they arrived at my door. Aliens, how would I know them, if they looked like my cat?”

That’s part of a track from Call of the Wild Cello. Listen to other excerpts at wildcellist.com.

To learn more about Neilsen, go to bbnmusic.com.

Tickets are $15 at the door.

Cairo in Kamloops

Former Kamloops residents who now live in Vancouver will headline a show on July 18 at the Pavilion Theatre, 1025 Lorne St.

Cairo includes J.P. Lancaster, Mark Crawford, Dan Crawford and Tristan Thompson.

They’ll be sharing the stage for the Ice Cream Desert Arts Festival with Treelines, a band from Kelowna, and other guests to be named. Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets are $13 at the door.