Flamingos

Flamingos: From jukebox oldies and ’70s disco, through pop and rock of the ’80s and ’90s, to early 2000s R&B, the Flamingos will play it all! 

Well-known for playing the best hits of the decades, the Flamingos show also features original music. With a freshly released original EP, the band will deliver new songs alongside favourite covers.  “Flamingos are not a band to sit still to. They’re great fun and the covers they play bring people back to a particular time in their lives. A dance party inevitably breaks out, so we thought we’d be ready for it.”

Best party band in town” – Spencer Shewen (artistic director Riverfest Elora, Mariposa)

“The tightest, snazziest, most on-brand, colour-coded cover band in the Eastern Standard Time Zone!” – Jonny Dovercourt (Wavelength Music Series)

“They were dressed in pink tuxedos, played pink guitars and even had pink patch cables. Full shtick, fully ridiculous, absolutely fun” – Michael Barclay (national best selling author/ CBC/ Macleans)

Sounds Like: Beatles, Hollies, Beach Boys, Roy Orbison. Genre: 60s English rock. 

For the common goal of having a good time, Flamingos are a cover group of bandmates from such acts as Bry Webb’s Providers, Royal Castles, Del Bel, Legato Vipers, and Gregory Pepper’s Problems. Having “read the room” on original music for decades, they were able to find momentum in playing music people want to hear. Now the band has decided to pivot, and tackle making original music that pays homage to the classic bands and eras they know and love.

Quotes from the band that nobody asked for:

“We are not trying to reinvent music. We are, however, imitating giants of music to the best of our very questionable and often limited abilities”

“We are hard to stifle or to suppress. You say we are bald, we find wigs. You say our best years are behind us, we wear costumes”