The Captain - Shawn Tavenier - lead vocalist/rhythm guitarist
The Voith of Reason - Peter Voith - lead vocalist/lead guitarist
Old Manders - Anders Drerup - lead vocalist/lead guitarist
Pipes McEwan - Shane McEwan - drums
Big Poppa - Jason Leen - bass

Additional Members:
Tyler Kealey - vocals/keys

It was late one night in the dog days of summer 2004 that a band took to a makeshift stage inside a barn in the humble outskirts of Ottawa. The line-up that fateful evening consisted of Peter Voith and Shawn Tavenier aka ‘The Bourbon Brothers.' To this duo was added Anders Drerup (bass) and Shane McEwan (drums) both of whom had just met Tavenier that very night. Having decided, albeit temporarily, to call themselves “Moonshine and the Haywagoners” the boys, fuelled by the summer heat, beer and the noise from a barn full of what would be the first of their many captive audiences played through the infamous and memorable night that would mark the debut of the Bourbon Brothers Band. It was clear to all present that night that something special was going down. Drerup would eventually take his rightful place on the guitar and Jason Leen, a long time friend of Shawn and Pete and newly minted member of Voith's original band Quarter Life, took up the bass.

Since that first summer the boys have been playing shows, making friends and tearing up the bar scene in and around Ottawa, Ontario. The Bourbon Brothers Band plays like a band born in the summer, and treat every show like another all-Canadian barnburner. As versatile as the Canadian weather itself, the Brothers warm a barroom in the winter and sweat out the summer-time blues with an infectious mix of just about everything that makes you want to let loose and take on the night. They bring unequalled energy and life to every song that they play, and pride themselves on keeping their audiences on their feet and moving until the beer is gone and the lights come up.

“I like to think that there's something for everyone at our shows. We love what we do and it's because of the people who come to the places that we play. We have yet to feel anywhere else the same kind of energy from a crowd that we get here in Ottawa. People don't give this town enough credit. ” -Shawn-