Canada Day celebrations were a blast at Henderson Lake Park, July 1.
While I only caught a couple of acts, I was impressed.
There were a lot of people, lots of children running around and lots of people dancing and dressed in red and white.
I caught a string set of classic rock and blues from Driving While Blind.
They kicked off a solid set with some Canadiana — the Tragically Hip‘s “Blow at High Dough.” They followed it up with some rocking blues in the form of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s “Cold Shot.” There was plenty of classic rock in there with the Georgia Satellites’ “Keep Your Hands To Yourself,” and a solid blues tune “Stop messing around.”
They crashed into more Canadiana in a sedate version of Neil Young’s “Rocking In the Free World.”
In between acts, troupes of local dancers performed in colourful outfits to an array of music from classical to contemporary pop while the next band set up on the stage behind them.
I caught the beginning of Suite 33 who rocked in the fireworks.
The cordless mics were starting to die, but the band, unperturbed by technical difficulties, played on and got a lot of toes tapping to a variety of upbeat ’70s and ’80s style pop rock, ranging from classic rock and roll, “Johnny B Goode” to the funky “ Play that Funky Music White Boy.”
Nicole Freeman and her sister Lizette Lynch took turns singing lead while Doug Freeman held down the bottom end on bass. Scott Mezei played some excellent guitar.
