Remember Tanglefoot? They won Best Vocal Group at the 2007 Canadian Folk Music Awards and spent several decades touring across Canada, the US and the UK.

Tanglefoot called it a day at the end of 2009. So what are they doing now?

A couple of years ago three former members -Steve Ritchie, Al Parrish and Rob Ritchie - joined forces with Meaford, Ontario-based percussionist/singer/songwriter in a new band called RPR.

With a few new spins on a couple of Tanglefoot favourites and lots of new original material in the same high-spirited tradition of storytelling songwriting for which Tanglefoot was well known, RPR has been working hard at establishing their new identity throughout Ontario, the northeastern US and Britain.

RPR has a couple of southern Ontario dates coming up:
Friday April 29 at the Simcoe Street Theatre in Collingwood, and
Saturday April 30 at the Keady Community Centre near Owen Sound.

After that it ís off to the UK for a 16-date four-week tour that includes stops at Chippenham Folk Festival, The Platform Arts Centre in Morecambe and the Rondo Theatre in Bath.

In the latter half of the year RPR will play festivals in New Brunswick and Minnesota as well as concerts in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Ontario.

"They sing raucously and passionately with big stirring harmonies- loud, vibrant and exciting - a joyous occasion."(The Beat Magazine, London Ontario)

On their debut album Trans Atlantic:
"From spare arrangements of poignant ballads to high-powered anthems with screaming electric guitar solos, to a capella singing with big harmonies, Trans Atlantic rises and falls from one song to the next on a sea of delightful surprise."(Mosaic)