November 27th

  My ticket stub from the Barney Bentall & The Grand Cariboo Opry show I saw at the Myer Horowitz Theatre in Edmonton on November 27th, 2014. This was a touring festival that Barney Bentall used to do every winter before Xmas. Raising money for different charities. The 2014 version in Edmonton featured Barney Bentall, Matt Masters, Leeroy Stagger, Dustin Bentall, Ridley Bent and Kendel Carson.

July 1st

  

 Happy Canada Day to all my fellow Canadians!

 It was on July 1st, 1992 that I saw The Grapes Of Wrath, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Barney Bentall and David Gogo play at Clarke Stadium in Edmonton. This show had a terrible turnout crowd wise and the weather sucked too. Good thing the bands were decent. For a Canada Day concert it seemed odd to have Joan Jett on the bill. But you will get no complaint from me, she was awesome! Good times!!!

Barney Bentall and the Grand Cariboo Opry in Edmonton Nov.27th 2014

Last night I went to the Barney Bentall and the Grand Cariboo Opry show at the Myer Horowitz Theatre here in Edmonton. Even though there was a full on blizzard happening here, there were still some brave souls that made it out to the show, that includes all the musicians as well. Good on all those that did make it out to this concert.

This show that is billed as The Grand Cariboo Opry is a variety show that has been going for nine years now, raises money for charities. And to date has raised a quarter of a million dollars for a variety of charities. Tonight's show raised money for the Inner City Children's Program, and was presented by Schoena and Jason Strudwick, Jason was an Edmonton Oiler at one time in his hockey career (2009-2011).

The line-up for this years show included hosts Barney Bentall and Matt Masters, both of whom did a great job of MC'ing the evening. Also playing were Dustin Bentall, Kendel Carson, Ridley Bent, Leeroy Stagger and many others.

The show started with all of the musicians on stage and performing a song, and after that it was each member taking a turn cranking out a song, some were originals and some were cover songs. Had a good laugh when Jason Strudwick and his wife Schoena took the stage and sang "Wagon Wheel".

All the musicians on this stage were incredible, I really thought fiddle player Kendel Carson was good, cute too!!! And the main reason I was there was to see Leeroy Stagger perform. He only did a couple of songs himself, one of them being "Highway Is My Home" from his Easton Stagger Philips album, and he also did a song called "Something Beautiful" which was really good too.

The evening ended with everyone on stage doing the Corin Raymond song "3000 Miles" a great way to close out the night. All in all a fun night of music. And a big thank you to Leeroy Stagger for the free tickets. Good times!!!

Barney Bentall and Matt Masters.

Jason and Schoena Strudwick.

Ridley Bent.

Kendel Carson.

Leeroy Stagger.

Dustin Bentall.

Other pictures from the show.

Ticket Stub Of The Day Apr.22nd (Joan Jett)

Today's ticket stub is from the Canada Day concert I saw in 1992 at Clarke Stadium in Edmonton. The line up for this show included David Gogo opening the show followed by Joan Jett and The Blackhearts who put on a great show despite it hailing during her set, other bands on the bill were Grapes Of Wrath and Barney Bentall. What I remember most about this show was the terrible turn out for the concert and the shitty weather. Hail,rain and wind through out the day made for a bad show no matter how much a guy drank. I remember having a glass of beer in my hand during Joan Jett and it started hailing, big hail too, as one hail stone landed in my glass of beer and almost emptied it, damn hail, time to guzzle. There were less then a thousand people at the show which is awful for a stadium that holds probably ten thousand. I didn't stick around much longer after Joan Jett's set.