Kiss: Favourite photos from the Stampede Roundup in Calgary 

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KISS performs at the 2016 Stampede Roundup, one of the largest off-grounds parties that occurs during the Stampede each year. Celebrating its 21st year, the Rotary Club of Calgary uses the event to raise funds for a variety of local charities. This year, $200,000 was raised.

Those Rotarians know how to throw a party. And, for the 16,000 or so people lucky enough to be at their 2016 Stampede Roundup on Wednesday night, the party lived up to expectations.

The Rotary Club of Calgary, in addition to serving up beef on a bun for the crowd, raised $200,000 at the Fort Calgary event for local charities and community initiatives. One of the Rotarians’ latest projects is the Rotary/Mattamy Greenway Project. Working with Parks Foundation-Calgary, the project will result in a 138 kilometres of pathways and parks that encircle the city. So, when you buy a Stampede Roundup ticket and beer, you’re doing something good for Calgary! The more you drink, the more good you do. (It is Stampede, after all.)

And, of course, along the way you get to enjoy some rockin’ good music. Kiss, The Cult and Moist were the stars of the show last night and the city’s No. 1 voice on music — the Herald’s Mike Bell — wrote a must-read review. (Click here to read it.)  Like most other concert-goers, I captured a few new favourite Kiss photos on my iPhone. 

Postmedia photographer Jim Wells was also on the scene. Here are a few of his great shots from Wednesday night.

Fans were ready for Kiss to hit the stage at the Stampede Roundup at Fort Calgary in Calgary, Alta on Wednesday July 13, 2016.

A Kiss fan waits for the band to hit the stage at the Stampede Roundup .

The 2016 Stampede Roundup was the 21st edition of the event, produced by 51 North Productions. Together with the Rotary Club of Calgary, they’ve raised more than $2.5 million for charities in the last nine years alone, not including the Wednesday night funds. The Roundup is one of the largest off-ground parties that occurs during the Calgary Stampede each year.

To read more about the Stampede, click here to check out the Herald’s Stampede page and here to read a quintessential history of the Stampede.

Calgary Stampede: The Complete Story (1910s - Present)

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