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Shows, Dances, Private Events
Engage in the Experience
The band is presently recording their first compilation of original works due for release in the Summer of 2022
Engage in the Experience
Shows, Dances, Private Events
Engage in the Experience
Dynamic and interchangeable, always ready for a challenge and always an experience. We play gigs for anyone, anywhere.
Shows, Dances, Private Events
Shows, Dances, Private Events
Shows, Dances, Private Events
We custom make each one of our shows, dances and live events with a mix of covers, original music and surprises for the audience to which we cater. Get our merch, sign up for our Patreon, and purchase our music! Contact us to supply you with the unforgettable experience in your live event. And now you can pre-order our album
Introducing
Engage!
Engage is the combined project of Carla Bonnell, Rick Bartlett, Debbie Roy, Ray Dunham and their newest recruit from Nova Scotia Larry Steele. Pulling from various musical styles Engage holds the attention of their audience with their high energy music and comedic entertainment
Meet Engage
Rick Bartlett
Rick Bartlett
Rick Bartlett
Rick has been playing the Atlantic Canadian circuit with his epic 40 year old guitar. Those two are never separated. He has an album of originals he put out with Producer Billy Sherwood of YES and enjoyed a #1 single on radio in Woodstock NB with his former band " Howard Brook Band" He has mastered his own unique style that is recognizabl
Rick has been playing the Atlantic Canadian circuit with his epic 40 year old guitar. Those two are never separated. He has an album of originals he put out with Producer Billy Sherwood of YES and enjoyed a #1 single on radio in Woodstock NB with his former band " Howard Brook Band" He has mastered his own unique style that is recognizable among his musical peers.
In 2015 recorded an album with Billy Sherwood, who is the current bass player for legendary prog rock band, "Yes".
Debbie Roy
Rick Bartlett
Rick Bartlett
At age eleven she met and presented Kitty Wells with roses and sang ‘Honey Tonk ’ for her. A few years later in 1984 she had an opportunity to meet and perform for two
great country music artists, Mickey Gilley and Gene Watson. Certainly, quite an
accomplishment, and huge thrill for someone so young.
In 1984, at the age of sixteen, Debbie fo
At age eleven she met and presented Kitty Wells with roses and sang ‘Honey Tonk ’ for her. A few years later in 1984 she had an opportunity to meet and perform for two
great country music artists, Mickey Gilley and Gene Watson. Certainly, quite an
accomplishment, and huge thrill for someone so young.
In 1984, at the age of sixteen, Debbie formed her own band, ‘The Debbie Roy
Band’. At this tender age, her mother, Claudette, was constantly by her side,
ensuring that she was always safe and on
track.
In 1997 Debbie received sponsorship from ‘The Irving Group of Companies’, to
travel to Nashville and record her album, ‘All Worked Out’. In 1998, Debbie recorded her second
album, ‘River Jam’, with the help of sponsorship through Fredericton
Tourism, and in 2000, she recorded her first Christmas album, ‘Christmas from
the Heart’.
Debbie is an inductee of the Minto Country Music Wall of Fame
Carla Bonnell
Carla Bonnell
Carla Bonnell
Carla is an award winning Singer Songwriter with several top 10 songs on community and streaming radio in 2014 and 2015.
She has played with Roy Orbison's guitar player, Johnny Cash's steel guitar player and recorded in Nashville with Pat Buchanan, Mike Brignardello, Pat McGrath, Greg Morrow and Dianna Dewitt.
Her last solo CD was produce
Carla is an award winning Singer Songwriter with several top 10 songs on community and streaming radio in 2014 and 2015.
She has played with Roy Orbison's guitar player, Johnny Cash's steel guitar player and recorded in Nashville with Pat Buchanan, Mike Brignardello, Pat McGrath, Greg Morrow and Dianna Dewitt.
Her last solo CD was produced by Maritime famer J.P Cormier in Nova Scotia.
She is presently recording with Engage for the new album of original material.
Carla has played in venues through eastern Canada and is a member of Socan, ECMA, Music NB, and has juried on many showcases and awards.
Ray Dunham
Carla Bonnell
Carla Bonnell
Ray is the glue to any band, with his knowledge of music and a keen ear. Ray has been on both sides of the stage as a bassist, back ground vocalist and sound engineer.
Ray has picked up song writing , recording and producing in Ray is the glue to any band, with his knowledge of music and a keen ear. Ray has been on both sides of the stage
Ray is the glue to any band, with his knowledge of music and a keen ear. Ray has been on both sides of the stage as a bassist, back ground vocalist and sound engineer.
Ray has picked up song writing , recording and producing in Ray is the glue to any band, with his knowledge of music and a keen ear. Ray has been on both sides of the stage as a bassist, back ground vocalist and sound engineer and budding song writer
He played with local bands throughout his music career. Most notably, Southern Justice, who shared the stage with classic bands such as April Wine, Trooper, Matt Minglewood and Randy Bachman to name a few. Ray is a real asset to Engage.
He is producing and engineering Engage's first album. He caught the recording bug when he signed up to help Wayne Brown launch Little Earl Audio Productions Studio in Chipman, NB in 1999. The experience he went through at that time, with the onset of the digital recording revolution, has given him the edge in computer-based music production and engineering.
Larry Steele
Larry Steele who has joined Engage as their drummer on their recording and their shows, toured the Maritime Circuit during the 70s to Early 90s, having played from Labrador to Victoria BC. During this time and into the early 2000's, he has been on National TV as the Drummer gone Plummer on Undercover Boss and recorded at Phase One Studio in Markham Ontario. Larry brings a wealth of talent an humor an positive vibes to complete the backbone of Engage.