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Bridge City Rovers
Overview
The Bridge City Rovers (BCR) are a Saskatoon-based quartet featuring seasoned musicians
known on stage as Matty, Rabbie, Booky, and Ricky Rover.
With decades of combined musical experience spanning a wide range of styles, the Rovers
bring together the spirit of Irish and Scottish folk, Celtic-inspired originals, and crowd
pleasing dance tunes to create a show that is both energetic and engaging.
What sets the Bridge City Rovers apart is their dynamic live performance. Instrumentation
is constantly shifting, lead vocals rotate among the members, and every song brings a fresh
combination of voices and musicianship.
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Price range: Starts at $850
Languages: English, German
Gig length: 45 - 180 minutes
What to expect
High energy tunes and songs with a wide variety of styles and sounds, made for dancing, singing along and foot=tapping.
All four band members are vocalists and multi instrumentalists.
About
The Bridge City Rovers
The Bridge City Rovers (BCR) are a Saskatoon-based quartet featuring seasoned musicians
Matt Bradford, Rob McInnis, Booker Blakley, and Rick Kroener—known on stage as Matty
Rabbie, Booky, and Ricky Rover.
With decades of combined musical experience spanning a wide range of styles, the Rovers
bring together the spirit of Irish and Scottish folk, Celtic-inspired originals, and crowd
pleasing dance tunes to create a show that is both energetic and engaging.
What sets the Bridge City Rovers apart is their dynamic live performance. Instrumentation
is constantly shifting, lead vocals rotate among the members, and every song brings a fresh
combination of voices and musicianship. The result is an unpredictable, high-energy
performance that keeps audiences involved from the first tune to the last.
From lively pub favorites to heartfelt Celtic ballads and foot-stomping dance numbers, the
Bridge City Rovers deliver a distinctly Prairie take on Celtic music—bringing the sound and
spirit of the pub to audiences in Saskatoon and beyond.
Additional booking notes
None if a stage is provided.
Services offered
Set list
Bridge City Rovers Winston’s March 17, 2026
SET 1 (41:00)
1) Streams of Whiskey (2:30)
2) Lukey (3:00)
3) Dinky’s/Fermoy Lasses/Merry Sisters of Fate (3:00)
4) Up She Rises (Drunken Sailor) (3:00)
5) Bold O’Donaghue (2:00)
6) Molly Malone (2:30)
7) Me and Julio (3:00)
8) The Ramblin Rover (3:00)
9) A Pint of Plain (3:00)
10) If I should fall From Grace with God (2:30)
11) Poor Paddy Works on the Railway (3:00)
12) I’ll Tell Me Ma (3:00)
13) Red Haired Boy/Devil’s Dream/Mason’s Apron (4:00)
14) I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) (3:30)
Bridge City Rovers Winston’s March 17, 2026
SET 2 (41:30)
1) Hills of Connemara, Temperance & Reconciliation (4:30)
2) More Beer (2:00)
3) Traditional Irish Folk Song (2:00)
4) Wild Mountain Thyme (3:30)
5) Indian Point/The Orphan/The Banshee (3:00)
6) Galway Girl (3:30)
7) Folsom Prison Blues (2:30)
8) Sawney Bean Clan (2:30)
9) The Spanish Lady/Old Hag You Have Killed Me (4:30)
10) The Crawl (4:00)
11) McWipeout (2:00)
12) Foxhunters/Pumpkin’s Fancy/Road to Errogie (3:30)
13) The Last Saskatchewan Pirate (4:00)
Bridge City Rovers Winston’s March 17, 2026
SET 3 (42:30)
1) Whisky Darlin’ Whisky (4:00)
2) Crooked Jack/Good Morning to your Nightcap (5:30)
3) Irish Pub Song (3:00)
4) Dirty Old Town (3:30)
5) Weile Waile (3:00)
6) Caledonia (4:00)
7) I’m on My Way (3:30)
8) Flight of the Mandosaurus/Lilting (4:00)
9) Wagon Wheel (3:00)
10) Reconciliation/Itchy Fingers/Donkey Reel (3:00)
11) Wasn’t That a Party (3:00)
12) Run, Runaway (3:00)
Alternates:
Black Velvet Band (3:00)
Whiskey in the Jar (4:00)
The Wild Rover (3:00)
The Kesh Set (3:00)
The Moonshiner (2:30)
All for Me Grog (3:00)
Barret’s Privateers (4:00)
Paddy O’Goode (2:30)
The Last Shanty (3:00)
The High Reel Set (3:00)
The Commute / Driftwood (4:00)
Boys of Sligo/Dublin Reel/Miss Monaghan’s (3:00)
Scotland the Brave (3:00)
Miss McLeod’s Set (3:00)
Nancy Whisky (2:30)
Dicey Reilly (3:00)
Frost is All Over/Father O’Flynn/Sport (3:30)
East at Glendart/Brian O’Lynn/Reckoning (3:00)
The set list keeps growing with new material!
Influences and inspiration
Irish bands and musician - trad and modern, some Country - and Bluegrass bands, popular singers and bands of a variety of genres.
Setup requirements
Unless the sound is taken care of by the venue, we bring our own system. On stage we require: 4 x vocal mic, 1 XLR for drum, 6 line-in for instruments.
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