Summer highlights include Whoop-Up Days for Trevor Panczac

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Trevor Panczak is enjoying another busy summer. Photo Submitted
It’s been another busy summer for local country musicians Trevor Panczac and Rough Stock, whose high profile summer gigs included the Rotary Dragon Boat Races, the Calgary Stampede and Whoop-Up Days.
“We’re headlining Saturday night which is a pretty huge honour for us. We’re also pretty happy to be playing the Taber Cornfest as well. We’re just trying to build our home base,” Panczak said adding the group has been supporting Ronald McDonald House, which helps families stay together when children fall ill, since they began playing.
“It’s a good fit for us. UFA (where Panczak works during the day)  is on board with them and our bassist’s two children went to Ronald McDonald House,” he continued, adding one dollar from the sale of each of his debut EP “Roll On” is donated to the charity. They have donated close to $11,000 to Ronald McDonald House in part from CD sales as well as extra-curricular fund-raising activities.
 This summer is no exception, except they are road testing seven or eight new songs reknown Nashville producer Michael D. Clute selected for Panczak’s new EP, expected out by next year.  This fall they are embarking on a  community hall tour, playing small town town halls all over southern Alberta including Cardston, Picture Butte, Twin Butte.
 
“We didn’t want to overexpose ourselves,” he said.
“We’re doing a small hall tour in the fall to keep our base. These halls in Sundial, Twin Butte, Foremost, they all have a lot of character and history,” he said.
“ It will be a continuation of this summer, playing these new songs and making sure they are the right songs for us  and that our supporters  feel the same way about them. Some songs are already becoming crowd favourites including one which  superstar  George Strait was considering recording called “Your Kiss.” Another popular one is a lighthearted number called “ That’s Just the Way She Is When I Drink.” 
One of Panczak’s own songs, which he submitted to Clute for consideration, called “Lance Can Dance” is also becoming a band and crowd favourite.
 Panczak and the band are working on an entire set of original material.
“We’re putting more originals into the set. We always had the idea of having one whole set of original material which nobody had recorded before,” he said adding the band is also recording some of their live shows  especially including the new material so they can send it to Clute, who will use the recordings to prepare for the next EP.
“He’ll get the cats down there to record the tracks and then I’ll go down there and record the vocals,” he said.
“And it really helps to record yourself because it helps prepare yourself and shows you where there’s a lot of work to be done.”
— Richard Amery, L.A. Beat Editor
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 18 August 2009 10:11 )