{"result":"update_story","description":"<p>The legendary rock group known as ZZ Top will be coming to our neck of the woods next summer.<\/p> <p><meta charset=\"utf-8\" \/><\/p> <p dir=\"ltr\">Technically, their freshly-announced Canadian tour begins days before the official start of summer, on June 1 in Victoria, and the Okanagan is stop number two a couple days later.<\/p> <p dir=\"ltr\">ZZ Top will be taking over Prospera Place in Kelowna on Tuesday, June 3, 2025.<\/p> <p dir=\"ltr\">They&rsquo;ll be bringing along The Wallflowers, Bob Dylan&rsquo;s son Jakob&rsquo;s band, as an opening act.<\/p>\n\t\t<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1515615292703-0\" class=\"dfp-ad dfp-in-content\" style=\"margin-bottom:15px;\">\n\t\t<script>\n\t\t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(\"div-gpt-ad-1515615292703-0\"); });\n\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t <p><img alt=\"&lt;who&gt;Photo Credit: Contributed\" src=\"\/files\/files\/images\/zztop.jpg\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" \/><\/p> <p dir=\"ltr\">ZZ Top is the product of two rival Houston bands, as Billy Gibbons&rsquo; Moving Sidewalks merged with Frank Beard and Dusty Hill&rsquo;s American Blues in 1969.<\/p> <p dir=\"ltr\">It was their third album, 1973&rsquo;s Tres Hombres, that catapulted them into the national spotlight thanks to the hit song &ldquo;La Grange,&rdquo; which remains one of the band&rsquo;s signature tunes to this day.<\/p> <p dir=\"ltr\">Following Hill&rsquo;s death in 2021, the band&rsquo;s guitar tech Elwood Francis took over the bass role at the request of Hill.<\/p> <p dir=\"ltr\">While ZZ Top has only released one album in the past two decades, 2012&rsquo;s La Futura, the band has continued to tour around the world into their senior years.<\/p> <p dir=\"ltr\">Tickets to see ZZ Top and The Wallflowers live in Kelowna next June go on sale through <a href=\"https:\/\/livenation.com\">Live Nation<\/a> at 10 am on Friday, Dec. 13.<\/p> <p dir=\"ltr\"> <\/p>","title":"ZZ Top announces 2025 Canadian tour with a stop in Kelowna"}