| The Wonderful Grand Band | |
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Image from Living In A Fog back cover. |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | St. John's, Newfoundland |
| Genres | Rock Folk Rock |
| Years active | 1978–1983 (Reunion 1997) 2009–present |
| Labels | Grand East Records |
| Associated acts | Ron Hynes Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers Figgy Duff The Fables |
The Wonderful Grand Band was a music and comedy group from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
The group had a short-lived eponymous television musical variety show on CBC, producing over 40 half-hour episodes between 1980 and 1983.[1] The show starred Hynes, Morris, Perry, (later replaced by Warden, who died in 1999), Simmons, (later replaced by Annan, who died in 2010) Russell, (later replaced by Snider), and Wiseman (later replaced by Stamp), as well as CODCO comedians Greg Malone and Tommy Sexton, who died in 1993. The show combined original and traditional music with topical comedy sketches and satire, some of which was directed at the CBC itself. The band reunited in 2009 for a series of concerts throughout Newfoundland and Labrador, in conjunction with the release of two DVDs containing 12 episodes of the TV show.
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Hynes, Simmons, Perry, Snider and Stamp reunited for one night only in St. John's in 1997.[2]