This Friday, you’re invited to come to the Flying Canoe West Coast Pub to hear the music of the Stepbrothers.
This four-piece dance band plays vintage rock ‘n roll — a mixture of surf, ’50s, classic rock, R&B and blues.
They do songs from the Pulp Fiction soundtrack such as Dick Dale’s Miserlou and Chuck Berry’s You Never Can Tell. You’ll hear Walk Don’t Run, Roll Over Beethoven and even some Yakety Ax and Sleepwalk for fast and slow dancing.
They get in the groove with R&B classics such as In the Midnight Hour and Polk Salad Annie (the gators got your granny!).
While the Stepbrothers are a new band, the members of the group are four experienced musicians well-known to the Comox Valley. Dale Parkins plays rhythm guitar, Jeff Germain is on drums, Brian (Stormin’) Norman on bass and vocals and Larry Ayre (a.k.a. Larry Ho) on lead guitar, vocals and blues harmonica.
Larry was the frontman for the Larry Ho Blues Show, which later transformed into Larry Ho’s Jive Five. Ayre still plays classical guitar at weddings.
This versatile musician and teacher is really enjoying revisiting his rockin’ roots or as he puts it — “Bach to the blues!”
Larry’s website is www.larryayreguitarist.com and the Stepbrothers have a Facebook page (search the Stepbrothers Comox).
Music starts at 9 p.m. and goes on till the Midnight Hour. The Flying Canoe West Coast Pub is in the Best Western Plus Westerly Hotel in Courtenay.
— Stepbrothers
