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Once out of high school, singer/guitarist Brad Roberts wandered around in different groups in Winnipeg while making ends meet as a bartender and teaching night classes at the University of Manitoba. After his first band, Bad Brad Roberts and the St. James Rhythm Pigs had run its course in 1988, he was looking for a …
Originally known as The Four Tones, the Crew Cuts consisted of brothers John and Ray Perkins, Rudi Maugeri, and Pat Barrett. Like The 4 Lads, they met while singing in the St. Michael’s Choir School. In fact, Maugeri and John Perkins were with that band in its infancy, but left to finish school. In 1952, …
Not to be confused with a band out of Detroit a few years earlier, Crosstown Bus was formed in Nelson, BC in the late ’60s around singer/guitarist Jeff Boyne, Rob Sommerville and Frank Ludwig on keyboards, bassist Roger Henthorne, and drummer Mike Killeen. Starting out as just another garage band that got some high school …
Born Daniel Grafton Hill IV in 1954, his parents had emigrated from California several years earlier to escape the intolerant American social climate because of their mixed race marriage. While growing up in Toronto he idolized such vocal legends as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, and Count Basie, studied guitar while barely a teen, …
A native of Vernon, BC, Darby Mills began her rise to the top of Canadian rock’s most recognizeable voices in the mid 70’s, doing mostly what she termed ‘BG’s (background vocals), and then joined Vancouver’s Steelback for a short period prior to their sole album in 1981. After signing on with The Headpins as Denise …
Kelly Jay memorial Canada’s Crowbar is not to be confused with an American grunge band during the 90s of the same name. While in a local Toronto band called The Ascots, Roly Greenway and Rheal Lanthier decided a change was in order,so they packed up their bags and headed to Nevada, and for the next …
The roots of Crowcuss branch off as one of many groups to have sprouted from The Guess Who family tree. When Bill Wallace & Greg Leskiw (also formerly with Wild Rice) both left Cummings and folk in ’74, the fellow Winnipegers formed Mood Jga Jga, releasing their self-titled debut later that year. After that project …
The basis of The Cruzeros was formed by Kelowna, BC highschool friends and guitarists/vocalists Barry Mathers and Curtis Tulman, who formed Sea Cruise and Jimmy Shoes, where they merged alt/country with rock roots and a bit of bluegrass thrown in for good measure. In ’89 they produced a cassette that they sold to raise money …
Bill Wade memorial After over a dozen top 20 hits over a decade that included the likes of “Sweet City Woman,” “Wild Eyes,” “Hit The Road Jack,” and “Carry Me,” drummer and vocalist Kim Berly (real name Kimball Meyer) left The Stampeders in 1979 in search of new adventures. He formed The Cry with keyboardist …
Hailing from Edmonton, Daisy Hill Puppy Farm was formed in 1967 by bassist/singer Mo Boyer and keyboardist/singer Mavis McCauley, along with Mary Saxton on vocals, guitarist Dermond Murray, and drummer Bob Ego. They toured the Alberta circuit for about six months, playing high school dances and night clubs before scoring a deal with Fountain Records, …