Photo courtesy THE THREE TIMES LUCKY BAND


Three Times Lucky: Back row, L. to R., David Reid, Stephen Reid, Larry C. Ceszcz, Norm Provencher. In front, Jeff Holgate (left), Al Wilmore.


Three Times Lucky ‘Anti-rock stars’ do it for fun


By JIM HURCOMB There was a time when men and


women in mid-life celebrated the graduation of their kids and retirement from work by heading south or perhaps working in the garden or getting around to writing that book that “I never had time for”.


But that was then. Today you’re as


likely to find Mom at Zumba and Dad jamming along to the Stones or Led Zep in the basement with like-minded


buddies. Most of the time these basement bands never make it up the stairs, but


there are exceptions...if you’re Three Times Lucky. There were no dreams of stardom in


the earliest days of this band. It was just a bunch of friends getting together Sunday nights to play their favourite Blues and Rock songs, along with a couple of originals just for fun. They started playing picnics and social events in Barrhaven. They started gigging in area bars. Then they were standing on the stage at Bluesfest looking out, incredulously, over


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a sea of hard-core Blues fans. The whirlwind journey started with


three friends − Larry Deszcz (Drums), Jeff Holgate (Keys, Harp and vocals) and Dave Reid (Guitar and vocals). All were experienced players who had dreams of getting back into the music business and maybe playing a few gigs now that the kids were grown up and the bills were mostly taken care of. Playing the music was the easy part. Finding a name was the challenge. Larry: “All the cool names were


taken. We did a lot of things in threes. We had what we called ‘three times lucky’ endings. We said there’s three of us, and for some of us it was our third shot at getting back into music, and we counted ourselves as being really lucky. So ‘Three Times Lucky’ just came out.” Since those early days the ranks of


Three Times Lucky have swollen to six. Dave’s brother, Stephen, plays bass and sings. Norm Provencher is the most recent addition on lap-steel. And Al Willmore, my vote for the best keyboard man in town, plays a variety of keys. After playing string of charity gigs,


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