Lethbridge got a special treat, April 25 at the Geomatic Attic when Whitehorse came to town.
Husband and wife duo Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland are well known songwriters and musicians in their own right garnering Juno 
nominations and Canadian Folk Music Awards and other accolades plus Doucet has played with Blue Rodeo while McClelland tours regularly with Sara McLachlan. Doucet has also toured with Sarah McLachlan.
But together they are a full orchestra as they showed the sold out audience.
They began simply enough with the two of them playing battered acoustic guitars huddled around one microphone while harmonizing with each other.
The Toronto based folk/ country/ blues/ jazz duo mixed the old and new with an array of musical styles and instruments plus and entire kitchen’s worth of pots and pans making them sound a lot like Twilight Hotel with more computer gadgets.
They have perfectly complementary tenor voices and switched through a variety of different instruments, looping individual parts, singing through two telephone receivers but they began their show old school, with just the two of them and their acoustic guitars sharing one microphone set at the front of the stage.
And then the fun began.
Doucet began playing a battered acoustic guitar which he has an effect hooked up to make it sound like a 12 string guitar, then stood behind a bass drum while on the other side of the stage McClelland stood on a wooden box behind a keyboard and a rat’s nest of different wires. She tapped out a rhythm on the box sometimes while switching between bass, and a couple of guitars and occasionally keyboards. Throughout they sang beautiful vocal harmonies. 
Doucet brought out his big, beautiful white Gretsch Falcon for a couple of the more rock and rockabilly inspired numbers and let his fingers blaze over the frets for countrified solos.
McClelland noted when Whitehorse first got together it was to play each other’s songs. McClelland noted “I couldn’t wait to get my hands on this one and make a few changes to it,” before playing Doucet’s “ultimate break-up song” “You Got to Have a Heart to have a Broken One.”
“He has a whole album of songs about that ex,” she said.
They also reworked “Passenger,” one of McClelland’s more popular songs, much to the delight of a couple excited crowd members murmuring their enthusiasm. They played an array of instruments, looping a few bars of everything from bass lines, keyboards, guitar and used all of their kitchen utensils plus handclaps, which they looped and played over while singing pretty melodies.
They received a well deserved standing ovation after that.
