Barney Bentall & The Grand Cariboo Opry

Grand Cariboo website: http://grandcaribooopry.com/ Barney Bentall websites: http://www.barneybentall.ca/ & http://www.myspace.com/barneybentall About the Opry From Barney The Grand Cariboo Opry took a while to develop and incubate. My band “The Legendary Hearts” had been performing each year at the Clinton May Ball – a tradition that goes back to a time when Jesus first put on chaps and tried his best to ride some rank old cayoose to the buzzer. We would come to town, stay at my ranch and rock the place in our usual way. However, it is a powerful land and the spirits of old mixed blood fiddle players and banjo pickers started to send messages from their sage covered graves. Before we could nod and hold on for dear life, we found ourselves bringing a whole bunch of other musicians up for the weekend and this weekend was becoming some kind of unholy midnight ramble where the devil dukes it out with Don Messer. It was becoming more old time and definitely more country & western. In 2006, we decided to bring it to the big city. We also wanted to give the proceeds to some charity. I knew some of the people in the Potluck Café Society. They are a great social enterpris... more...