The Carpet Frogs are a

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band. They are known for their work performing at private events and touring with

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and Burton Cummings and have performed on

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, Live 8 Canada, SOCAN Awards, and more.

History

The Carpet Frogs performed as Burton Cummings' backup band on his 2008 album, ''Above the Ground''. In 2016 The Carpet Frogs performed at the Juno Awards ceremony. In 2018 they performed with Cummings at a concert in Windsor.

Personnel

Current members

*Nick Sinopoli -

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and

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* Jeff Jones -

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and vocals (Known for his work with

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, Gowan and

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) *Michael Zweig - Guitar and vocals *Gerry Finn - Guitar & Vocals *Sean Fitzsimons - Drums and vocals

Past members

Greg Godovitz Greg Godovitz (born March 20, 1951) is a Canadian musician, best known as the bassist and vocalist of the power trio, Goddo. Prior to his success with Goddo, Godovitz was a founding member of Fludd and played in ''Sherman and Peabody'' with Buz ...

(Goddo) * David Love * Jim Nielsen (Bass) * Mike Hall (Killer dwarfs) * Mike McDonald (Bayou Boys) * Lawrence Grecchi (original member) * Steve Jensen (original member) * Tim Bovaconti (replaced Michael in Bachman Cummings band 2007) * Leonardo Valvassori

Discography

Albums

*1994 – ''Frog Curry'' *1994 – ''Christmas All Over the World'' (4-song holiday set) *1995 – ''Adult Rock No. 5'' *1995 – ''Album Network In Store Play 34'' *2000 – ''Bullseye's Compact Christmas 2000'' *2001 – ''Takin' Care of Christmas'' *2003 – ''Everything is Beautiful'' *2006 – ''Pretending To Fly'' *2006 – ''Bachman Cummings, First Time Around'' DVD/cd sonybmg *2007 – ''

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'' (Bachman Cummings Band) *2008 – ''Above The Ground'', Burton Cummings, Sony/BMG *2012 – '' Massey Hall '' Burton Cummings Live .Universal Music Canada

DVD

*2005 – Live 8 concert, BarrieDisc available on EMI -Randy Bachman & The Carpet Frogs - each member named separately *2006 – First Time Around Bachman Cummings DVD available *2008 – Above The Ground DVD -Burton Cummings disc *2010 – various Winter Olympic clips from Burton Cummings Feb 25th performance TV Show

References

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External links

The Carpet Frogs
official website
The Carpet Frogs' Management site website Sam Boyd

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