Members of a Colwood gym were in for a surprise when a famous tattooed face rolled into town.
The day before he performed to a sold-out Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria, country music superstar Jelly Roll put on a show of a different kind on the basketball court at Royal Roads University Recreation Centre.
With his crew in tow, the Grammy-nominated artist, whose real name is Jason DeFord, took a break from rehearsals to shoot some hoops and play ball.
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According to Walsh, Jelly Roll could be the most famous person to step inside the university gym since the 1950s, when Princess Elizabeth, The Duchess of Edinburgh, before she became Queen of England, visited what was then a military college.
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After thanking Walsh for allowing him to spend time on the court, Jelly Roll gifted her free tickets for the Victoria concert. But despite being a fan of his music, Walsh gave the Jelly Roll tickets away to her daughter and daughter-in-law, who she describes as huge fans.
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The Victoria date was the first of Jelly Roll's 12-city, 13-stop, Beautifully Broken Great Northern tour, which will conclude on March 26 in Quebec City.
