As usual Street Wheelers Weekend meant the streets were packed with custom cars racing up and down and all around down town for the annual Street Wheelers cruise night, Friday, July 13.
And for classic cars, you need to have a classic rock soundtrack.
This year’s Concert for a Cause for Big brothers and Sisters was pleased to provide it so they moved their beer gardens next to the road in Galt Gardens so a packed park full of patrons could enjoy a cool beverage while watching the cruise.
While I missed Alyssa McQuaid and Coyote Junction’s set, I was in time for a new band of old favourites called Old School who played pretty much what you hear on 94.1.
So there was a lot of ’70s and ’80s Can con pop music.
They featured keyboardist Rob Hebetler, Doug Sokoloski on lead guitar, vocalist/drummer Jamie Kaufmann, bassist Scott Mezei.
Anna McBryan filled in for extra vocals.
They opened with Prism’s “Spaceship Superstar after a false start and continued with Loverboy’s “Working for the Weekend, which Jamie Kaufman sang.
McBryan sang a credible version of the Black Crowes’ “Hard To Handle.”
They also played a little INXS and Habetler killed it on keyboards for Burton Cummings’ “ My Own Way to Rock” while McBryan did her best Burton Cummings style vocals.
