The Kim Berly Group, aka the KBG, is a new Kelowna based band featuring Kim Berly, renowned drummer and lead vocalist for legendary Juno award-winning Canadian rock band The Stampeders.

Berly has created this new musical group to have a vehicle the many songs he has written in recent years. He released a solo album in 2011, but felt that not having a band to realize the songs in performance was a limiting factor when it came to exposing and promoting his new music.

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The KBG is comprised of Berly on drums and lead vocals, David Knight on guitar and vocals, Bob Silversides on keyboards and vocals and Murray Holmes on bass and vocals.

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Initially, Knight and Berly teamed up to write and record songs and perhaps form a duo to perform locally. They took a pass on the duo but did set up a studio and began working on becoming music producers.

Over the past two years they have written and recorded a dozen songs. All of the songs have full band arrangements so it became apparent that, to reproduce the songs live, a band would be essential. And so it fell to Knight, as a longtime Kelowna resident, to approach his favourite players with the idea.

It was settled after one rehearsal.

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The KBG will be releasing it含羞草研究社檚 first album this autumn and is currently booking a tour of B.C. theatres to kick it all off.