Heart, the rock album hit machine of the 1970s and 80s will resurface in Lloydminster as the Brigade Heart Tribute Band.
Band leader, Dahlia Wakefield who has deep roots in Lloyd, is bringing her six-person band to Vic Juba Community Theatre for one show on Nov. 10 starting at 7:30 p.m.
“We’ll be playing all their hits like Barracuda, Crazy on You, These Dreams, Heartless —instantly recognizable hits that you hear on classic rock radio,” said Wakefield.
“It will be a high energy performance. We’re going to sing our heart out.”
The pun was intended.
Wakefield will sing the part of Ann Wilson, Heart’s original leader of the U.S. band, while Karen Claypool takes on the role of Ann’s sister, Nancy on vocals and guitar.
“I heard Heart when I was 18 and I just feel in love with Ann Wilson’s voice,” said Wakefield.
“It was very earthy. It was just amazing. The lyrics really spoke to me back in the 70s.”
Wakefield is no stranger to music fans in Lloydminster as she performed at the Rotary Club of Lloydminster’s Lobsterfest this past May with her other band Dahlia and the Villains.
“It was a lot of fun and my first Lobsterfest,” she said.
Wakefield points out they do a bunch of classic rock in that band as well as country.
“I like many genres,” she said.
“I got to perform at Vic Juba with Dirt Road Angels a few years ago. I sing many genres. I even sing the metal genre, R & B—I sing everything.”
Many local fans can recall hearing Wakefield perform all over at telethons, fringe festivals, Rotary and Lions clubs and even singing the national anthem at hockey games in past years.
Wakefield grew up in Maidstone Sask. and lived in Lloyd on both sides of the border from 1991-1997 when she graduated from Lloydminster Comprehensive High School.
“After that I worked all over Lloydminster as a waitress, various real estate companies and I was also a Karaoke hostess as Wayside Inn for a few years,” she said.
“I have lots of family that live there and continue to come home for the holidays.”
Brigade’s upcoming headline act at Vic Juba is billed as an invasion with so many band members and fans on their way.
Stan Pietrusik will on keyboard and supply backup vocals, with Dennis Boisvert on drums, Glenn Thorpe on guitar along with bass player Ben Oswell who was born in Lloydminster.
His family moved to the Hillmond area in 1994 then he moved back to Lloyd for his senior year of high school.
Just as Wakefield did, Oswell completed an extra year of music classes in Lloyd to prep for a music program at Grant MacEwan back when it was a college.
Ben stayed in Edmonton until 2011, then moved back to Lloyd in 2013-2014 and back to Edmonton until now.
Wakefield and Claypool have been singing together like Ann and Nancy since approximately 2011.
The two standouts are one half of the Dirt Road Angels country band that performed in 2022 for Ulmer Chev Cadillac’s customer appreciation event at the Vic Juba.
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