PHOTOS: Blue Rodeo puts on a show to remember for Victoria fans

Legendary alt-country rockers Blue Rodeo played to a crowd of enthusiastic fans last night at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre (SOFMC).

The Many a Mile Tour took the band on the road to share their 16th studio album and their first in five years.

The opening act for the show in Victoria was Canadian singer/songwriter Barney Bentall.

Blue Rodeo “discovered that even nightmares like the pandemic can have silver linings.”

The downtime from lockdowns gave the band a creativity boom, and also meant that recording had to be done in novel ways.

Blue Rodeo co-singer/songwriters Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor worked separately, while sharing band members — bassist Bazil Donovan, drummer Glenn Milchem, keyboardist Michael Boguski, guitarist Colin Cripps and multi-instrumentalist Jim Bowskill — on a rotating basis.

The audience got to hear hits like Symmetry of Starlight, with its angelic harmonies, as well as the twangy, seriously rollicking singles When You Were Wild and I Owe It to Myself.