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"Screwball lounge!" Toby Hughes at Toby Hughes Music
"Tom Waits meets The Muppets!" Marco DiFelice at Silent Joe Music licensing
"…the schlock level was through the roof!" Tom Tytel The Rex Hotel
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A quick CaMp CoMbO storyScRewbaLL louNge! CaMp CoMbO's oddball cover songs, fun original tunes and exuberant playing form a wacky hybrid of pop/swing/latin/jazz, with polkas too. CaMp CoMbO joins a list of bands who inject some entertaining, arty fun into popular music. This includes 1940-50's nutbar Spike Jones, Mexician dude Esquivel's crazy 50's arrangements, Toronto's zany Shuffle Demons and USA's quirky Squirrel Nut Zippers. Toronto live-music visionary and blogger Lonely Vagabond called us "Hipster vaudeville! " |
Hear music!The best way to hear, download or stream ALL our music is: Go to our Bandcamp page! Search other streaming services, but Shitify pays nothing, so avoid. Head for the sky and find us on the Soundcloud, if that's your hang. |
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Nichol - Great Bob Scott! - Fred
Band Members present & pastBand leader Fred Spek plays tenor sax and sings. Formerly with: novelty act The Mood Swingers, ska band Inner City Fanatics, art rockers Braino, ska-funk Dub Enforcement Agency, art-damaged Blank Crowd, Jason Clark's jazzed Bug Nite and others. He's shared the stage with Mary Margaret O'Hara (she blew bubbles while he crooned "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles"), performs in Richard Underhill's street band The Kensington Horns. He's done gigs with Michael Louis Johnson's free blowing party band Rambuctious and is a regular guest with Toby Hughes & The New Orleans Connection Jazz All-Stars (Sundays at Grossman's). He's sat-in with bluesman Jake Chisholm, Mad Bastard Kevin Quain, swing-punk Big Rude Jake and more. His list of original tunes continues to grow, and Fred acknowledges support from the Ontario Arts Council, who awarded him a songwriters grant in 2011. Nichol S. Robertson was born and raised. He plays banjo, guitar and other people's feelings. Currently Nichol leads a few of his own bands, like The Honkytonk Boogaloo Boys, The Layrite Boys duo, and also enjoys selling his soul to such musical acts as Friendly Rich & The Lollipop People, with Ted Hawkins in Thelonious Hank, Victor Bateman's Another Country, Devin Cuddy, Ian Goodhue's rockin' soul revue The Mercenaries, Stones cover band Dead Flowers, and is in big demand by many. In the future, he hopes to sell his soul to much more lucrative acts (i.e. Metallica, Lawrence Welk or the people who do the music for Saturday morning Christian channel shows). Alan Zemaitis sits in the organist chair and plays the hell out of it! Alan is also with Chloe Watkinson's Park Eddy and is sought by many others. He has his own groovin' trio too! Tim Shia, is the unusual usual man on the drum set. Go hear his modern jazz act "The Worst Pop Band Ever" sometime, you won't be disappointed! See more drummers in the list below! Distinguished organists we've had our way with include long timers Ben Mueller-Heaslip and Waylen Miki, guests Joel Visentin, Nathaniel Edgar, Jeff McLeod, Ryan Driver, Tania Gill, Kelsey McNulty, Dafydd Hughes, Meher Steinberg, Marcel Aucoin, Peter Hill, Jason Kenemy, and Cindy Fairbank. Fine and fun bass players include groovy Rachel Melas who's done lotsa gigs, as had Micheal "Blitz" Kaler. JUNO winner Brandi Disterheft did a couple gigs, living legend Victor Bateman, Wes Neal, Mike Herring, Brian Kobayakawa, Jon Meyer, Chris Banks, and one special night Ka-Cheong Liu blew his tuba! Excellent drummers we've been lucky to work with are Mike Rosenthal, who's done lots of gigs and great recordings, nutbar Great Bob Scott, Adam Warner, Sly Juhas, jazzer Nick Fraser, Blake Howard (from GUH), Daniel Barnes, Dave Clark, Heavyweights Brass Band's Lowell Whitty, Conny Nowe, Daniel Stadnicki, Joe Poole, and Jake Oelrichs. Great guitarists such as Eric St. Laurent, Tzevi Sherman, Tom Juhas, Canada's top jazz guitarist Reg Schwager, James "Champagne" Robertson, Rizaldo Padilla, and Margaret Stowe, have also played with the band. Hot horns include trumpet blower Brian Cram (RIP), trombonists Scott Good and Steve Donald, saxist Toby Hughes as well as baritone player Ben Burke, who have all blown their horns with us and whatta blast it was! |
Contact us:We'll play nightclub dates, house parties, swing dances, weddings and whatnot, in a variety of combos. We have a large repertoire with many jazz standards.
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