When it comes to playing at Coquitlam's Town Centre Park on Canada Day - just before the pyrotechnics go off - the Fab Fourever will have just the thing to keep the crowd in a party mode.
"We're going to have really high energy to make sure everyone is singing along, dancing and stomping their feet," said Jody Tennant who portrays Paul McCartney in the Beatles tribute band.
The Vancouver-based group, also made up of Kevin Davey (John), Jean-Luc Perron (George) and Paul Kaszonyi (Ringo), will be focusing its hour-long set on the Beatles' biggest hits up to 1966.
That means songs from the Abbey Road and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band won't be heard because of the way the production is scheduled.
Rather, it'll stick with the 1964 Ed Sullivan Show and 1965 Shea Stadium scripts.
As well, to honour the Beatles' appearance in Vancouver 49 years ago, the Fab Fourever will flashback to the songlist from the 1964 Empire Stadium concert - the English band's first Canadian date.
Among the 11 tunes the Beatles performed then were Twist and Shout, All My Loving, She Loves You and Can't Buy Me Love.
Tennant said his tribute band started as a hobby and has grown into a business that includes a tour bus and crew to meet the 40 annual gigs.
The current quartet has been together for about five years. Davey and Kaszonyi joined the band shortly after seeing a Fab Fourever show in Chilliwack while Perron was hired through a Craigslist ad.
Their dates are mostly in Western Canada that have a multi-generational, multi-cultural feel.
"That's the great thing about the Beatles: Their music is so universal," Tennant said. "Almost anybody can sing a line or two from one of their songs."
The Fab Fourever will take to the water stage at Town Centre Park on July 1 at 9 p.m., an hour before the fireworks. Coquitlam's Canada Day Celebration is sponsored in part by The Tri-City News. For the day's line-up, visit www.coquitlam.ca (under the Recreation, Parks and Culture tab).
