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 called The Blues of “The Band” that found the crew rolling through tunes from sources like Muddy Waters, Bobby Charles, Slim Harpo, Hoagy Carmichael, the Delmore Brothers and Ronnie Hawkins that Levon Helm, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel sang during The Band’s glory days. The boys packed Edmonton’s Yardbird Suite.

Show producer Peter North says, “this fall 2026 tour will be another memorable edition of the Up On Cripple Creek show and it is sure to give fans some new takes on timeless material.” Every edition of this show has enjoyed sold-out houses and great reviews.

Out of the gate the Calgary Herald called the project “one of the best 15 shows of the year”. Up On Cripple Creek has rocked many a venue including the Vancouver Island Music Fest, Salmon Arm Roots and Blues, Big Valley Jamboree, Festival Place in Sherwood Park, Arden Theatre in St. Albert, the Empress in Fort Macleod, Calgary’s Ironwood Stage, Nelson’s Capitol Theatre, Kicking Horse Cultural Centre in Golden and Butchart Gardens Concert Bowl in Victoria.