Friday, March 15 - $10 cover - free appetisers
Since starting the popular Poor Boys band in the late 1980s, singers and guitarists Bruce Reid and Mike Elliott have done hundreds of gigs together, mostly featuring their own great blend of rock and roll, with some strong folk influences thrown in. When it started, they just wanted to get out of the garage and have some laughs. More than twenty years later, they’re still having fun and they aim to prove it on Friday, March 15 at the Sea Dog for a St. Patricks Day Dance Party.
Bruce Reid has been playing guitar and singing since his early teens when his sister handed down her Harmony amp and Beltone guitar. He has always sung and his songwriting emerged in his mid-teens. Bruce doesn’t claim any direct influences, but admits that growing up with seventies’ performers like Kiss, BTO, Sweet, April Wine, and Streetheart, who have helped him construct his own take on rock and roll.
Mike Elliott first picked up a guitar in elementary school and hasn’t put it down since. By high school he was one of the local guitar players to watch, after playing close attention hour-after-hour to Duane Allman, Mark Farner, Jeff Healy and Stevie-Ray Vaughn. This said, Mike is always striving to express his own voice on his axe of the moment, often an old Harmony.
Alan Crosby is a mainstay of the music scene on the South Shore, as a regular player in the Winsome Band and one of the lost brother-duo, Failin’ Health. He brings drums, harmonica and vocals to the show.
Matt Elliott is the bass player with the Poor Boys. The show is from 9:00pm to midnight, with a $10 cover, which includes free appetisers.
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