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An electrifying performance

On a stage silhouetted in red, a man in white shirt, dark pants and sunglasses plays harmonica into a microphone. Beside him in the background, a drum kit with the name of the band on the drum, “The Sidetrack.”

Image: J. C. Lewis from The Sidetrack performing onstage at The New Penelope on Stanley Street, 1966. Richard Duranleau (photographer), copyright 1966. Courtesy of Richard Duranleau

Credit: “Festival,” song by The Sidetrack, copyright 1966. Courtesy of Alan Brown
Duration: 2:13 min

Here is an excerpt of “Festival,” a song recorded by the band The Sidetrack in Montreal in 1966, which is evocative of the live music they would have been playing regularly at The New Penelope on Stanley St. that same year.