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Festival 2004    July 22 - 25

Captain Tractor

Captain Tractor is ...Scott Peters: vocals, guitar, mandolin Chris Wynters: vocals, guitar Brock Skywalker: vocals, accordion, flute, harmonica, guitar Jon Nordstrom: vocals, bass Jules Mounteer: drums Formed in Edmonton, Captain Tractor has produced an attractive blend of alternative rock and Celtic influences since their inception in 1994. 

The group evolved after Edmonton punk band the Brave And Foolish sundered. From that group, singer/guitarist Chris Wynters and fellow friends from Grant MacEwan College, Scott Peters (mandolin, guitar, bodhran, vocals) and Jules Mounteer (drums), joined with renegades from Celtic acoustic group Leona Brausen's Boyfriends - of which Peters was also a member. Peters had earlier worked with Mounteer in the briefly famous Alberta punk bands Thieves and Titanic Reaction. The new group was rounded out with the addition of Aimée Hill (vocals, flute), Brock Armstrong (vocals, banjo, accordion, guitar) and Jeff Smook (bass). They took the name Captain Tractor as it was suitably "dumb" and "hadn't been used before", and soon realized there was more potential to the band than an informal gigging collective. 

They entered Wolf Willow Studios in Edmonton with Ian Armstrong as producer and recorded a 15-song album, Land.  As well as four songs originally performed by Leona Brausen's Boyfriends, the album included a version of Wade Hemsworth's "The Log Driver's Waltz". The album sold moderately well, and received regular airplay on alternative radio stations throughout Canada.  The follow-up included cover versions of material by the Clash ("London Calling"), the Arrogant Worms ("The Last Saskatchewan Pirate") and the traditional "Lord Of The Dance". Even that, however, was customized, with the incorporation of a section from Slade's "Run Run Away".