Calgary based rockabilly band Peter and the Wolves returned to Casino Lethbridge, Oct. 6 and 7.

 

 I caught their last set on Saturday night.

 

 Howlin’ Peter Cormier and company are always up for something different.

 

 This time, they were trimmed down to a trio, with Cormier doing quadruple duty.

 

 He was seated behind his keyboard for most of the set, but was simultaneously playing a bass drum and snare drum set at his feet. He grabbed his guitar while barely missing a beat to wind up the Calgary trio’s set.

 

 Meg Thompson  stood next to him paying sweet saxophone solos while swatting at a cymbal set to the left of Cormier’s keyboard for extra percussion.

 I arrived in the middle of “Beatrice,” one of my new favourites.

 

 The set included a lot of originals and vintage ’50s rock and roll including “Bee Bop a Lula” and “Johnny B Good,” for which he grabbed the guitar, of course.

 He switched back to keyboards for the last song of the night “ Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going on.”

 

They usually pull off the tried and true rockabilly trick of standing on the  upright bass.

 

 But as Cormier had his hands and feet busy  with drums, keyboards and guitar, Thompson  got to play her last saxophone sole of the night on top of Pedro’s  upright bass.