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Song List
Wrap These Around You- Hey Romeo
Sorry That You’re leavin Hey Romeo
I Got Nothin Hey Romeo
Second Hand News Fleetwood Mac
Destinations Hey Romeo
Simple Life Carolyn Dawn Johnston
Sin Wagon Dixie Chicks
Long Way Around Dixie Chicks
Long Time Gone Dixie Chicks
It Aint No Crime Joe Nichols
Somedays You Gotta Dance Keith Urban
Here For The Party Gretchen Wilson
Redneck Woman Gretchen Wilson
Trying To Find Atlantis Jamie O’Neil
Jackson Carter / Cash
Kerosene Miranda Lambert
Big River One Trick Pony
Suds In The Bucket Sara Evans
Man I Feel Like a Woman Shania Twain
I Will She Daisy
Gotta Be Somethin More Sugarland
Stand By Your Man Tammy Wynette
What I Like About You Trisha Yearwood
My Oh My The Wreckers
The World Brad Paisley
Pocket Of A Clown Dwight Yoakam
Intentional Heartache Dwight Yoakam
Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off Joe Nichols
Can’t Hurry love Dixie Chicks
I’m A Believer Smash Mouth
Life Is a Highway Rascal Flats
Fast Cars and Freedom Rascal Flats
Folsom Prison Johnny Cash
Nowhere Road Steve Earle
Guitar Town Steve Earle
Born To Fly Sara Evns
I Don’t Care if You Love Me The Mavericks
Dance The Night Away The Mavericks
Writing On the Wall The Mavericks
Johnny Cash Jason Aldean
Big Time Big and Rich
Party Pop and Rock
Walk Away- Kelly Clarkson
Lady Marmalade Patti Labelle
Trouble Pink
Brown Sugar Rolling Stones
TNT AC/DC
Hard To Handle Black Crows
Play That Funky Music Wild Cherry
Small Town John Mellancamp
Heart Of Glass Blondie
I Don’t Feel Like Dancin Scissor Sisters
Vertigo U2
Dance The Night Away Van Halen
Black Horse And A Cherry Tree KT Tunstall
New Girl Now Honeymoon Suite
Just What I Needed The Cars
Miss You The Rolling Stones
Honky Tonk Woman Rolling Stones
What I Like About You The Romantics
Here For A Good Time Trooper
Back in the USSR The Beatles
Sweet Caroline Neil Diamond
Does Your Mother Know ABBA
Sweet Dreams The Eurythmics
Go Your Own Way Fleetwood Mac
Everyday is a Winding Road- Sheryl Crow
New Orleans Is Sinking Tragically Hip
Sweet Home Alabama Lynard Skynard
Sugar Sugar The Archies
The House is Rockin Stevie Ray Vaughn
Pride and Joy Stevie Ray Vaughn
The Joker Steve Miller Band
Loveshack The B52’s
I Don’t Feel Like Dancing The Scissor Sisters
Video Killed the Radio Star Presidents of the USA
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Cyndi Lauper
Soak Up the Sun Sheryl Crowe
Bio/History
Stacie Roper, Darren Gusnowsky, and Rob Shapiro are Hey Romeo, a roots, pop country
trio of songwriters from Edmonton, Alberta. Since their inception in 2001, they have been
working hard to build their fan base as they tour weekly in Western Canada.
The demand from the fans for original music has been steadily increasing which has prompted
Hey Romeo to enter the studio to record their first full-length commercial release which
contains ten original songs. With their diverse influences their songs mirror how music is
unfolding in today’s generation. Hey Romeo (formerly know as Udder Maddness) released
their single “Wrap These Around You” to radio in July of 2005, it charted nationally and
introduced the group to country listeners across the nation.
They all met in the Edmonton music community while performing with other acts and
once the opportunity came up for them to play together they knew they had something
unique. They have a great working chemistry and they all love what they do and it shows
in their music, which can be described as a blend of Fleetwood Mac, Crosby Stills and
Young, Sarah Evans and Alison Krauss. In a short time, Hey Romeo has built an impressive
list of achievments appearing at The Calgary Exhibition and Stampede, The Big Valley
Jamboree, The Canadian Finals Rodeo, Edmonton Klondike Days,The Canadian Brier Curling
Championships and several Alberta Pro Rodeo events.They’ve opened for Emerson Drive,
Chely Wright, Sugarland, The Corb Lund Band, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band,The Road Hammers
and The Trews.
Hey Romeo has been priming its audiences with their new original material and news of their
up and coming CD. Since 2001, they have performed over 700 shows, which has established
their fan base and strengthened the band’s musicianship and live performance.
“Everybody likes to feel they were on to something before everybody else.
It feels even better when it works out. Feels even better when it exceeds your expectations.
I remember working with this kid from smalltown Northern Alberta, who reminded me that while talent
can learn to put on a show, some just have it to be a show. Felt good when someone else saw the same
thing a couple years later. Jason McCoy handpicked Clayton Bellamy to be his front-man sidekick and now
Road Hammer fans are getting to see the same show.
It’s trickier when it’s your friend’s band. What if they suck? What do you say? Little or nothing.
Having worked with Rob, Stacie and Darren at different times previously, I instantly sensed that there
was a sum potentially greater than the parts. That they kept on that path, getting tighter and brighter,
making well-covered songs sound fresh and sometimes completely their own, was good to see. And to do
it with an eye on a longterm goal, while maintaining a professionalism that didn’t get in the way of their
immediate job - keeping people dancing their asses off - is even more impressive. And all too rare in the
business. Doing a gig well, and keeping their enthusiasm while doing it, is all well and good. But the big
dream usually ends when the original songs come out.
Some think that writing smooth, hook-filled songs with some lyrical depth is an easily dismissed thing.
Probably from hearing too many paint-by-number ditties full of pandering cliches. Truth is, they are the
hardest songs of all to write. When I first heard the first takes of their songs I had the same feeling as
when I first heard the band. It felt good.”
Dave Crash Cameron- writer, soundman
Stacie Roper
Stacie grew up in Sherwood Park, AB in a home filled with music of every kind. Her mom was the organist attheir church, which lead Stacie to start singing in the choir and taking piano lessons at a very young age. Her Dad was a truck driver who loved his country music and encouraged Stacie to record all his favourite songs ata local studio so he could take a piece of her on the road with him during his long, lonely trips across Canada.During junior high and high school, Stacie was the leading lady in two rock bands. But singing Ozzy Osbournewas not in this girls future. Her country roots took hold as soon as she moved to the small town of Hay Lakes where everyone lived and breathed by the lyrics of the latest Garth Brooks song. Having music as her only truelove in her life, her future was uncertain, not knowing how to attain her dream. Slinging beer at the Hay Lakes Hotel, jamming with bands that came in on the weekends, and singing in local talent competitions was how shepaid her bills and kept her musical indulgence fulfilled. She took a second job at Lammles Western Wear and Tack where she found a huge support group and a way to network with the people in the country world. It wasn’t until a few years later that she would meet her future at the Leduc Black Gold Rodeo after she had been successfully dumped by a boyfriend. Gord Bamford was playing that night and he had a great keyboard player, Rob Shapiro and a fantastic guitar player, Darren Gusnowsky. They were very sweet to her and let her sing the blues for a song or two that night. She wouldn’t be singing the blues for long because it wasn’t a month later that Stacie,Rob and Darren would play their first gig together and they haven’t stopped since.
Darren Gusnowsky
Darren started off playing music at the young age of five. His mother would enter him and his two brothers into singing contests around the Regina area. The bug never really hit until later in his teens. He learned to play guitar and some country from the brothers and uncles of The Poverty Plainsmen. (Mark and Sean Smith are Darren’s cousins). After that he started a band with his oldest brother Ben. Times were tough on the road being away from his new bride (a high school sweetheart), and with a new child on the way Darren had to make ends meet so he got a job in the construction field by day and taught guitar lessons by night. After he was able to get his young family into a house, he started writing and playing on weekends. He met Rob Shapiro at a gig they were both hired on to play for Gord Bamford. Later at a rodeo they were playing at Gord asked a young singer up to stage to sing a song. At that point Darren had found a voice for his songs, the voice belonged to Stacie Roper. Darren continues to write songs for future albums and looks forward to a busier musical future with Hey Romeo.
Rob Shapiro
Rob started playing piano at 10yrs old, played classical as a youngster in music festivals till 15 and then started playing rocknroll in garage bands. Continuing music out of high school he studied at Red Deer College and then jazz at Grant McEwan College in Edmonton. He paid his tuition by instructing swim lessons and lifegaurding
at the local pool in hometown Drumheller. Bartending at night kept his nights full, live music was never far away.....While in Grant McEwan college, country music was introduced to him and it peaked his interest. Out of college he joined the established country recording act, Kidd Country that went on to win multiple Alberta Recording Industry Awards music awards for their work on two country albums, Kidd Country and Big Blue Lincoln. After freelancing with a variety of solo artists(Gill Grand, Diane Chase, KC Jones...), Rob and fellow Grant McEwan alum, Darren Gusnowsky, crossed paths backing up country artist Gord Bamford and then singer, Stacie Roper. The chemistry between the Stacie, Darren and Rob was special so they established their own identity as a group and have developed their sound as Hey Romeo. Cowriting songs with Stacie and Darren and handling much of the band’s business, Rob is looking forward to hitting the road and traveling the world with Hey Romeo.
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