Up on Cripple Creek: The Songbook of The Band Show 2

Since that time the ensemble has come together every few years to play dates around Alberta and B.C..

Armed with songs from all the classic Band albums, this troupe dishes out authentic, soulful renditions of classics like The Weight, Stage Fright, Across the Great Divide, Shape I’m In, It Makes No Difference, Ophelia, When I Paint My Masterpiece, and The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down while also dipping into material from solo Levon Helm albums and The Band’s reunion album Jericho.

Up On Cripple Creek boasts two great lead singers in Calgary’s J.R. Shore and Doug Andrew from Vancouver’s Circus In Flames.

Bassist/vocalist Ron Rault, drummer Thom Moon, keyboard ace Garth Kennedy, guitarist Gord Matthews and harmonica player Crawdad Cantera are the other key players in this project.

Up On Cripple Creek has tweaked the show with every tour and in 2024, John York of The Byrds, was a special guest of Up On Cripple Creek.

Another edition of the show found the group tackling the songbook of The Last Waltz in 2019 with some help from vocalists Colleen Brown, Kirby Sewell and Ian Oscar. The spring of 2026 saw Rault, Moon, Matthews, Cantera with guest Stew MacDougall present a show…