Once again, Lethbridge bands came together to lend a hand, this time for the Salvation Army.
A day long fundraiser at the Smokehouse, Saturday, July 13 raised exactly $5,000 thanks to 
organizer Maggie Hall who topped off the $4,994.47 raised through the five dollar admission as well as a silent auction featuring a variety of items ranging from oil changes to assorted household items.
I only caught the first two bands who began right at noon.
Classic rock/ blues band Driving While Blind played their usual strong set of blues and classic rock.' Some of the highlights included the always fun blues/ rock classic “Going Down,” as well as classics by ZZ Top and Stevie Ray Vaughan as well as Canadian music from the Tragically hip.
Undefined were next with a set of similar material.
They began with a hot cover of Kim Mitchell’s “Lager and Ale.” They played some Canadian blues with David Wilcox’s “Laying Pipe,” then tackled Big Sugar’s “Digging a Hole.” After that they slowed down things with The Band’s “The Weight” and touched on their pop side with Duran Duran’s “Hungry Like the Wolf.” They even went country for a moment with “Dust On The Bottle.”
The bands weren’t all about classic rock, though I had to leave early the other performers included metal/ punk band Fox Eyes, pianist/ poet Jessie Tollestrup, metal band Death Pledge, Young Medicine, Swanson Hawk, Rawk Fist, ’90s cover Band Temple City, pop punk band 24/7, Flying Squirrels Delivery, Bruce Roome and company plus Suite 33 who wound things up after midnight.
— By Richard Amery, L.A. Beat Editor
