WATCH: Tea Party to break three-year performance drought this summer

• Rockers expect to gain new fans and reacquaint with others
• Missing "the high" of live performance

Rock the Lake returns to Prospera Place August 5 to 7. The three-day music festival features an all-star lineup of rock legends, including multi-Platinum selling and multi-JUNO award-nominated Canadian band, the Tea Party.

Roach from 104.7 The Lizard spoke to Stuart Chatwood, bassist and multi-instrumentalist from the band.

“It’s been a really long time obviously with COVID that we haven’t been to Kelowna in so many years,” Chatwood said via Zoom from Vancouver. “I think a lot of people will be hearing music from the Tea Party for the first time in a long while.”

The Tea Party’s appearance at Rock the Lake will be the last stop out of 19 cities in their Canada-wide tour, beginning June 17 in Waterloo, Ontario.

This is the first time in almost three years the band has performed live.

“You miss it, you know. It’s quite a high. When you play a show, it’s impossible to sleep after,” Chatwood said.

“People think bands are on drugs all the time but it’s just that energy that I get; the adrenaline that you get from being on stage.”

Since releasing their debut album in 1993, The Tea Party, composed of Chatwood’s bandmates Jeff Martin, and Jeff Burrows, have come to be regarded as one of the world’s most innovative rock bands.

Their sound incorporates everything from traditional instrumentation from around the world, to cutting-edge digital technology.

Over the past three decades, the trio has gained the attention of fans on a worldwide level, with record sales approaching 3 million units, over 50 million career streams to date, receiving 14 JUNO Award nominations and 22 MuchMusic Award nominations, and touring around the globe.

Alongside their live performances, the band also released a new EP called ‘Sunshower’, featuring the new single ‘The Beautiful,’ playing on Canadian radio and streaming online.

The EP presents a message of hope in the face of one of the most challenging years we as a society have endured so far in the 21st century.