If you don’t look too closely you just might see two very famous performers who recently gave a concert at the Devils Lake Elks Club, our very own version of the Blues Brothers, Donovan Foughty and Rick Senger. The club was filled to capacity for an evening of comedy, music and dancing. (photo credit/Louise Oleson)
Winter crept in early to the Lake Region this year, with 12.5 inches of snow the week of Nov. 10 and 11, adding an inch or two here and there, just enough to keep the chill going. That didn’t stop the residents of the community from enjoying a night on the town by Nov. 19 at the Devils Lake Elks Club. In fact it was just what the doctor ordered for anyone already noticing mild symptoms of cabin fever.
The region’s own tribute to the Blues Brothers, Rick Senger and Donovan Foughty, began the evening as if the weather had slowed the arrival of the scheduled entertainers allowing for others to step up and perform, like the late, great Johnny Cash and several others. You could call it their “warm up” act!
Eventually the black sunglasses, fedora wearing, black suit and tie wearing duo took the stage and rocked the house, young and not so young alike. When the dance floor filled later on in the evening, there were dancers in their twenties, thirties, forties, fifties, sixties and, yes, seventies all enjoying themselves together. It was truely an intergenerational phenomenon.
