On these beautiful spring days, when we get a taste of warm sunshine, we also get a whiff of what’s to come with the warm weather.

One of the perks of summer in addition to BBQ’s, beach weather and summer road trips, is the outdoor music festivals. There’s something special about spending a day with your friends and family soaking up live music in the sunshine.

Rock the Shores has been that festival for the past 5 years that built some pretty great summer memories. With artists like City and Colour, Tom Cochrane and Red Rider, Loverboy, Scott Helman, 54-40, Metric and The Sheepdogs along with with a host of artists to discover, it’s been a favourite to pack blankets and hats and load up your kids to enjoy the festival.

This message from Rock the Shores:

ROCK THE SHORES TAKES A YEAR OFF

MARCH 29TH // VICTORIA, BC – To all of our friends and music lovers, we have made the very difficult decision to postpone this year’s Rock The Shores festival. The good news is we will be back in 2018!

Over the past five years we have enjoyed building the event to what it has become. We are proud of every artist we have booked, and we are so grateful to everyone who has helped us along the way, first and foremost our ticket buyers!

Our goal from the beginning was to build THE annual rock festival for Islanders, and we remain 100% committed to it. This year in particular has presented multiple challenges towards achieving this goal – challenges that threaten to undermine the future and viability of Rock The Shores. These include the limited availability of suitable headline talent, coupled with increasing market saturation and competition in a year of national celebration. Rest assured, the journey is far from over and we will keep everyone posted as we shape next year’s festival.

So we’ll have a break and the festival will return in 2018. I’ll be ready with my camera and sunscreen.

For ticket refunds, go to their website for details.

Mel Z – Middays 10am – 3pm on Ocean 98.5