The theme of  the Highway 3 Roots Revue’s last show of their tour was travel.
 Leeroy Stagger, Dave McCann and  John Wort Hannam took turns playing brand new songs as well as old favourites for a good sized crowd at the Slice, Dec. 18, which brought  an intense 14 date, 4,000 km tour all over Alberta to a close.

 All three noted how happy they were to be back home, before taking turns sharing new songs and contributing extra vocal harmonies and  sometimes harp to each others songs.

 They donated five dollars from each ticket sold to the Lethbridge Food Bank.

 The first song each  musician played had the theme of travelling.

 Paul Kype and Texas Flood returned to the Slice, Dec. 17 to bring the blues.

 I arrived in the middle of one of my favourite  Kype originals “Freight Train.”

 Lead guitarist Steeve Keenan sang several covers after  that including “Night Moves.”
 They brought a fan on stage to sing  the Cranberries ’ “Zombie.”

 Another highlight was a pretty version of “Here Comes The Sun.”

They played a medley of Johnny Cash including “Folsom Prison Blues”  which included a  few bars of  “A Boy Named Sue” then  “One Way Out,” before launching  into a version of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s “Pride and Joy.”

Winnipeg raised, Toronto based singer songwriter Daniel Sky returned to Lethbridge for the third time in two months, to play the Owl Acoustic Lounge for a decent sized crowd, basically doubling the number at his previous poorly attended shows.

 After a hot and loud set by Red Rum Triumph (aka Steve Foord and Kelsey Jesperson), Foord played a decent version of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” with former Clapping Monkeys member Brock Jellison.

 Daniel Sky, began his set with a Bob Dylan song and played several songs from his two CDs. He got Jellison back on stage to harmonize on a couple songs and asked Jesperson to add some violin to a couple others.

He switched to several different guitars throughout his set.

 He ended his set with  a Tom Waits song, “Innocently Dreaming,”  which included a few verses of the Beatles’ “I Want to Hold your Hand,”and asked the audience to sing along with the chorus if they knew them.

 University of Lethbridge  based community radio station CKXU held an enjoyable Christmas party at the Slice for volunteers, listeners, community members and anybody  who happened to stop by, Dec. 16.

 It even included Santa “Matty V” Claus himself posing for pictures by the fireplace.
 Shane the Librarian, one of the DJS provided  the beats for the dancers and Jesse  Northey  and  the Dandelions provided Christmas cheer in the form of unusual versions of Christmas carols. 

 While  they were singing a little off key (perhaps ironically performing bad versions of the carols) and added a little bit of an indie rock flair to well roasted Christmas chestnuts, they had the audience on their feet for plucky versions of  all of their Christmas favourites and even John Lennon’s “So This Is Christmas.”