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The Clumsy Lovers bring more than 350 fans to John’s Alley every tour
It’s not often that John’s Alley gets filled to maximum capacity.
When it comes to bar bands, The Clumsy Lovers draw over 350 fans to the Alley like a moth to a flame.
“People come to the Alley to have a good time and The Clumsy Lovers seem to play just what the people are looking for,” said D.C. Johnson, John’s Alley sound technician. “The Lovers bring people that just want to be entertained and deliver. They bring energy. Once they start in on that 15 minute ACDC riff — man, that gets people fired up.”
The Crafty Bastards will open for the Canadian band at 9 p.m. today and Saturday with an $8 cover.
“The Lovers make it to Moscow two or three times a year,” said Tyler Bohachek, a bartender at John’s Alley. “They have such a great stage performance.”
The Alley is just one of The Clumsy Lovers’ hundreds of gigs every year.
The band also plays at music festivals such as Seattle’s Bumbershoot, Olalla Bluegrass Festival, North by Northwest, Harmony Arts Festival, Vancouver Celtic Festival and Northwest Folklife.
Bohachek said The Clumsy Lovers concerts are some of the Alley’s bigger events.
“Pure danceable music,” Bohachek said. “They do a cover riff that mixes together 10 different songs. That is entertainment.”
The Clumsy lovers have played more than 1,500 live performances and produced seven studio albums in the last 10 years.
Hailing from Vancouver, British Colombia, the band formed in 1993 and was formerly known as The Six Million Dollar Band.
The Clumsy Lovers features Trent Freeman on fiddle and vocals, Jason Homey on banjo, mandolin and guitar, Chris Jonat on bass and vocals, Trevor Rogers on vocals, guitar, harmonica and percussion, Rebecca Smith on fiddle and vocals, and Tyler Thompson on Drums.
The band plays Celtic folk rock, bluegrass, ska, country and some rock and roll.
They perform a mix of their own songs along with covers.
“They’re having fun,” Johnson said. “It helps everyone have fun.”
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