Northwest Dance & Music Venues

The Grooveyard
Originally Known as Hollywood Bowl
Now Known as The Metro
759 Carnarvon Street
New Westminster, British Columbia

This was one of the Main R & B Dancehalls in Vancouver in the mid-late 60's, and early 70's Some of the bands that rocked this place during those great years of NW music were:

The Bachelors
Bo Diddely
Centaurs
Dakus and the Rebels
DeVilles
Eldorados
Electras
Jason Hoover and The Epics
The Fox
Mr Lucky & The Gamblers
The Guess Who
The Kingsmen
The New Breed
Night Train Revue
Nocturnals
Nomads
Paul Revere & The Raiders
Kentish Steele & the Shantelles
Shockers
The Sonics
Soul Society
Soul Unlimited
Stags
The Statics
Ike & Tina Turner
Vancouver Playboys
The Viscounts

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The Centaurs at the Grooveyard

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Last Update: 3 June 2015
Credits:   Brian Newcombe, Corky Ellis, Ed Nodorozny, Alex Michie, Terry Coan, Chris Wolfe, Dan Alfredson, Joe Cochlin, Les Vogt, John Gedak, Brian Wesner, Chuck Gorling