The Salmon Sessions Music Festival is a summer fundraiser for the Little Campbell Salmon Hatchery in Surrey. It features live music, a beverage garden and more.
The Salmon Sessions Music Festival happens towards the end of August. It’s a fabulous festival and for a good cause! In 2025 the event happens on Saturday, August 23rd.
For full details about the event, see the Penmar Community Arts Society‘s website.
This article contains the following information about the festival:
Where and When? | Entertainment Lineup | Ticket Details | Raffle and 50/50 Draws | Game Club & Little Campbell River Hatchery Video | Other Information
Salmon Sessions Music Festival Fundraiser for the Little Campbell Salmon Hatchery
The Semiahmoo Fish & Game Club is home to the Little Campbell Salmon Hatchery. The not-for-profit society raises and releases over 100,000 salmon fry every year. The fish play an important role in the province’s food infrastructure.
The hatchery requires urgent and costly reconstruction. Together with the help of the Penmar Community Arts Society, the Semiahmoo Fish & Game Club hosts the Salmon Sessions Music Festival. It’s a fundraiser for the hatchery and a fun celebration of local music.
The one-day festival, which debuted in 2023, happens in the summer. The event features live rock and country music by local bands on an outdoor stage. Everyone is encouraged to bring their own lawn chairs. There’s also a beverage garden with various beers, wines and non-alcoholic drinks. Food vendors are on site as well. New for 2025, there’s also an artisan market with local creatives. Visitors are able to tour the hatchery at the event and learn more about the importance of the river.
Note: This is a dog-friendly event, so you can bring your four-legged friends with you (so long as they are well-behaved and you keep them on a leash).
For full details about the event, see the Penmar Community Arts Society‘s website.
Where and When?
The third annual Salmon Sessions Music Festival takes place on Saturday, August 23rd, in 2025. This year it runs from 3:00 pm to 11:00 pm.
The festival is held at the Semiahmoo Fish & Game Club which is located at 1284-184th Street in South Surrey. The venue is on a 29-acre property that features all sorts of trails, indoor ranges and more. It’s just north of Hazelmere Golf Club and south of the Hazelmere Pumpkin Patch. The club is also less than 10 minutes east of White Rock by car.
2025 Entertainment Lineup
The lineup of performers at the 2025 festival is listed below. These are all great bands!
- Karen Lee Batten – a country-soul powerhouse from Abbotsford. She has won many awards and was a top 10 finalist on the Canadian Idol TV show.
- The Promised – a roots band with a rock edge from Vancouver. They’ve performed on Netflix’s Virgin River series.
- Antonio Larosa – winner of the 2023 BC Country Music Award Roots Artist of the Year. He plays with a full country rock band.
- Richard Tichelman – a rising pop artist and guitarist who puts on high-energy performances full of storytelling.
- Angie Faith – originally from South Surrey, Angie blends the genres of folk, pop and country and brings lots of emotion on stage.
Note: The bands perform outdoors on a stage. The photos of Antonio Larosa and Fionn in this article are from a festival launch event where the musicians played inside the Semiahmoo Fish & Game Club’s clubhouse.
Thanks to the Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival, food vendors at the event in 2025 include Tacosaurus, Rolled West Coast, the Original Hurricane Potato and Say Cheese.
Event Ticket Details
Tickets for the 2025 event are available as of May 3rd. Exact prices are to be confirmed.
Last year early-bird tickets started at $30 for adults and $10 for children and youth ages 18 and younger. General admission up until the event cost $45 for adults and $20 for children and youth.
When making a ticket purchase online last year, attendees were encouraged to add a donation to their ticket amount. If you donated $20 or $30 per ticket, it brought the total to just $50 or $60, which was still a fabulous price for the event.
For full details about the event, see the penmar.ca website.
Raffle and 50/50 Draws
In August of 2024, the Salmon Sessions Music Festival also hosted a raffle and a 50/50 draw! Funds raised helped support the Little Campbell Salmon Hatchery.
Last year the raffle prize was one roundtrip flight for two people to any WestJet destination. Tickets to enter the draw were $20 each, $50 for three, or $100 for 10. Tickets for the 50/50 draw cost the same, except the winner received half of the total jackpot.
2025 details are to be confirmed. For the latest details, visit the Penmar Community Arts Society website.
Game Club & Little Campbell River Hatchery Video
To give you an idea of what the Semiahmoo Fish & Game Club and the Little Campbell River Hatchery look like, check out the video below. The video was made by Lester Lightstone.
Other Information
For more information about the festival and the organizations behind it, visit the Semiahmoo Fish & Game Club and Penmar Community Arts Society websites.
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