Mela & The Sensational Sidekick

Mela & The Sensational Sidekick

“Canada’s Voice like chocolate”

Melanie Dekker’s got a dutch family background and her acoustic pop material keeps her touring and crafting songs. She’s opened for Bryan Adams, Faith Hill, Diane Krall & Russell Peters; meanwhile has 8 albums of her own.  Her youtube videos include some unusual content including her own Wisdom Tooth removal, and romantic run in with a mannequin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVLleGAPUTg . Miss Dekker and her multi-instrumentalist talents are hitting the road for most of the rest of this year, so here on this Saturday night Red Truck Stop LIVE proudly presents her Euro show in her own “backyard”. And yes, she indulges in chelate sprinkles on fresh bread (Hagelslag!) @melanie.dekker www.melaniedekker.com.

At home, Dekker is notably passionate about helping with dog rescue efforts, as is the sensational sidekick.

Who’s on stage with her? Allan Rodger, a music-producer at Crosstown Studio. Rodger focuses on the music (the Canucks game can surpass that with feverish enthusiasm). He was a renegade child, and luckily he got his first drum kit to ‘wack’, after his Penticton parents noticed that he liked to hit the furniture with cutlery. Now a repertoire of being an expert on many instruments, he usually ‘chooses’ to be the master of the Stratocaster on Dekker’s country ’n pop ’n rock material. Though tonight he is on bass, to balance out the sound, as Chris “the wrist” will also be here to charm us with his backbeat on the snare.