September 17th, 2022
The Rickshaw presents
Cousin Harley
Dixie Fried Hep Katz, Stephen Nikleva Band
+19 (with 2 pieces of govt issued ID)
Also available in-store at: Red Cat Records
Join Vancouver’s Hillbilly rock’n’rollers Cousin Harley at the Rickshaw Theatre with guests, the Dixie Fried Hep Katz and the Stephen Nikleva Band on September 17th!
Cousin Harley
http://paulpigat.com/cousin-harley/
Hailing from Vancouver BC, Canada, Cousin Harley, can explode like an active volcano, swing like the Basie band and holler like A lonesome hillbilly in the back woods of the Appalachia, all in a single show. This trio has been rocking international audiences for 20 years! Not to be trifled with and not to be missed, folks, this is Cousin Harley!!!
Called the “Motorhead of Rockabilly” by a delirious fan after a particularly raucous show in Holland, there’s nothing tentative about Cousin Harley’s pedal to the metal approach to this stripped down form of rock and roll. As Pigat notes, “Cousin Harley’s been my main project for 12 or 13 years now, and people think it’s easy to play rockabilly, but nothing could be farther from the truth. Everyone has to be on board from the first note or it just doesn’t work.” And judging from the people who drove or flew hundreds of miles to attend shows on his last European jaunt, everything’s working just fine.
Dixie Fried Hep Katz
Some say that Rockabilly is music for the old. When a 19 year old truck driver blazed a Rockabilly trail out of Memphis, TN, in 1954 it was very much music for the young. And 66 years later that’s still true as the teenaged Dixie Fried Hep Katz blaze their own Rockabilly trail out of Enderby BC. These Katz are the real deal!
Dixie Fried Hep Katz are excited to be returning to The Rickshaw with brand new music from their recently released album “Keep Rolling On”
Stephen Nikleva Band
https://www.stephennikleva.com/
“Weirdo space-age surf lounge” Drawing on his years with Jimmy Roy’s Five Star Hillbillies, Ray Condo, Petunia, and Romanian violinist Lache Cercel, Stephen’s Instrumentals pay homage to the albums of the 50’s & 60’s without sounding dated. With him is Noah Walker (guitar), Paul Townsend (drums), and Joseph Lubinsky-Mast (bass), and special guest Jimmy Roy.