Wannabe: Spice Up The West!

Wannabe: Spice Up The West!

with local support from LooPS

Location: Nightshift on 5th (130 5th Avenue)

Doors: 7:30 pm

Show: 8:30 pm

Tickets: $30 - General Admission

Get ready to spice up your life with the ultimate tribute to the iconic girl group - Spice Girls! MPRO4 Entertainment is excited to announce the Spice Up The West! tour featuring one of the most sought after tribute acts in North America, Wannabe: A Spice Girls Tribute. Join us for a night of nostalgia as we bring the energy and excitement of the Spice Girls to Kamloops. Don't miss out on this unforgettable live show that will make you feel like it's the 90's all over again.

Wannabe has been thrilling audiences and blowing the roof of concert venues across North America for the past 10 years. With giant personalities, mega-watt singing voices, spot-on choreography, costume changes, English accents and platform shoes, these powerhouse women have brought Girl Power into the 21st century with their larger-than life epic shows.

Wannabe is the brainchild of a group of Toronto based performers and musicians who also just happen to be best friends. The idea for Wannabe was born one summer when the girls were crammed in a house together performing in a summer musical, right around the start of 90’s nostalgia. The girls went to work. After an intense period of “Spice Girls Training”, which included studying concert footage and music videos, creating choreography, arranging songs and harmonies, assembling a six-piece backing band, and rehearsing for several months, Wannabe was ready to hit the stage for what they thought would be a one-off concert for friends and family at the legendary Toronto venue, The El Mocambo. They were wrong. The show sold out and the band hasn’t looked back since.

Wannabe has grown to become one of the most sought after acts in North America, selling out concert halls, theatres, clubs, casinos, outdoor festivals and more. As the band has gained popularity, the shows have expanded to include not only Spice Girls songs, but hits from other 90’s superstars including Brittany Spears, Janet Jackson, and Madonna. The girls have appeared on stages alongside legendary 90’s acts including TLC, The Goo Goo Dolls, Aqua, 98 Degrees, O-Town, Lance Bass (N’Sync) and Aaron Carter.

Wannabe is as close to the real thing as you’re ever going to get.

Wannabe is Barbara Johnston, Suzy Wilde, Anika Johnson, Jaz Fairy-J and Cat Merriam.

LooPS (Local Supporting Act)

Named the Best Band/Singer for both the 2022 and 2023 Kamloops This Week Readers Choice Awards

(winners of 6 total awards and runner up for 3 more categories), and in the 2024 Best of Kamloops Awards, winners of the Bronze Medal for Best Band, LooPS have used the last few years to put themselves on the map as not only the Kamloops region, but all of BC’s premiere acoustic-pop duo! LooPS have played every big event and stage in Kamloops recently, including late evening sets at Ribfest, headlining Overlander's Day, Oktoberfest at Harper Mountain, and both Scotties Tournament of Hearts and the Memorial Cup. While expanding their following across the province the last few years, LooPS completed a couple impressice feats you may have heard of...July 8th of 2023, LooPS attempted and BROKE the Guinness World Record for most cities playing a concert in 12 hrs (9) all throughout the Vancouver region, and raised $18,400 for the BCCHF in the process, and in October 2024 they were given the privilege of opening for international recording artist Forest Blakk for his only Vancouver stop on his North American tour.

With a style best described as what would happen if Ed Sheeran and Lewis Capaldi had a musical baby, LooPS use loop pedals/acoustic guitar for high energy sets (giving the power and energy of a full band on stage) and piano for powerful ballads with soaring harmonies. A LooPS set is truly an experience you must view in person to catch the magic and chemistry the two have on stage.