The Carlton Showband is back.
“It feels pretty good,” Freddy White told the Times-Herald. He is the only member from the original group, which started in 1964 performing until 1996.
Now six of the band’s members have reunited to take their nostalgic music on the road across Canada.
They will be arriving in Moose Jaw on Sept. 24 at the Mae Wilson Theatre, hosted by Casino Moose Jaw.
During the band’s history, there have been a total of 15 members with usually about six active performers although at one stage there were eight.
The band was a regular on the popular CTV show The Pig and Whistle for ten years and had a number of top 10 songs in various radio charts, including The Merry Ploughboy in 1966, Roll it Around in Your Mind in 1972 and Hard Times (Comin’ Down Again) in 1979.
White will be joined by fellow band members Gregory Donaghey, Roddie Lee, Aaron Lewis and Robert and Larris Benoit.
After all these years, Donaghey said they still get on great. They recently met up for a photo shoot.
“All we did was laugh. We had a photo shoot and got our tuxedos adjusted. It was great fun.
“If the tour is like that it will be tremendous. We always got on well together. If there was the odd tiff, it was always forgotten about and that’s the way it was,” he said.
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