Sam Roberts Plays For The Police

06/08/09 4:34pm

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

The Sam Roberts Band, Mother Mother and Arkells will be part of the World Police & Fire Games' musical entertainment when they play a show at Burnaby, B.C.'s Deer Lake Park on Aug. 3.

Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster and Live Nation and will cost you $45. The show comes towards the end of the Sam Roberts Band's summer tour, which will run from mid-June until mid-August.

The World Police & Fire Games is an international sporting event that's held biennially to give fire fighters, police officers, corrections officers and customs officers the chance to compete in 65 athletic events.

You can see the Sam Roberts Band here:

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