We were playing, not for the drunks, but for the musicians, because it was more intellectually challenging. We needed somewhere to put our energy to show that we were growing, and as we started to achieve this, people came to hear us musically.

Jeff Healy sat in on guitar for most if not all of the performances. The concert featured performances by Hawkins Carl Perkins Jerry Lee Lewis The Band and Larry Gowan. His hit songs included covers of Chuck Berry's "Thirty Days" (entitled "Forty Days" by Hawkins) and Young Jessie's "Mary Lou" a song about a "gold digging woman".

Dynamo or simply The Hawk Hawkins was one of the key players in the 1960s rock scene in Toronto Ontario Canada. He played a pivotal role in the establishment of premiere backing musicians via his band The Hawks. Though his career began in Arkansas USA where he'd been born and raised it was in Ontario Canada where he found success and settled for most of his life.