For an Edmonton-based band, Spenny and the Jets, will be fairly familiar to residents of Estevan.
Spencer Vaughn Lafrentz is the lead singer and guitarist for the band which will be both the entertainment at the Festival of Trees Dec. 1 but also helping out with the Estevan Comprehensive School鈥檚 production of Footloose. Lafrentz is originally from Estevan and is looking forward to spending time here.
The festival provides a great chance for those both familiar and unfamiliar with the band to catch them live.
鈥淢e and the guys are really excited about it and really looking forward to it,鈥� Lafrentz said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 probably one of the biggest gigs we鈥檝e ever played.鈥�
He has a dream of being able to play at the Orpheum Theatre, which can accommodate around 400 people, but Affinity Place is a bit of a bigger place with a tonne of people.
鈥�(The Orpheum) is so intimate and I鈥檝e only seen two shows there,鈥� he said. 鈥淭hey don鈥檛 really have shows there that often.鈥�
Spenny and the Jets will be playing a wide range of songs from their repertoire, including covers and originals.听
鈥淲e鈥檒l be playing some original songs but with that we鈥檒l also be playing a lot of covers that range from 60s to 2000s and even some stuff in the later 2000s,鈥� he said. 鈥淎 lot of country, a lot of classic rock, a lot of blues.鈥�
The original songs will be coming mostly from the first album he and the band recorded in 2016, SVB, but they do have another one recorded and waiting for a 2019 release.
Spenny and the Jets evolved from a combination of the cover band that had this name and his other band, Spencer Vaughn Band, which performed original songs.
鈥淲e were kind of getting fed up with the state of the band and the other guys in it, so we formed a cover band with these other two guys who we were really good friends with,鈥� Lafrentz said. 鈥淲e were all in university at the time and people started to graduate and moved on to other things. We just kind of stuck together and a lot of the other bands fell apart that everyone was part of. We kept the originals and then we wrote a record that鈥檚 coming out鈥� in the new year.鈥�
Songs on the new album were grinded out on the month before recording and Lafrentz said it sounds really good.听
The Festival of Trees won鈥檛 be the only place to catch Lafrentz. He, the guitarist and bass player will be in the pit band for Footloose, which will be performed from Nov. 29-Dec. 2 at Estevan Comprehensive School, and he鈥檒l be spending nearly two weeks here.
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