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Philip Lethbridge

1937-

    Phil Lethbridge moved to the Pincher Creek area in 1967 and has been playing music for various social functions ever since.
Phil, the son of William and Kathleen Lethbridge, was born and raised in ranching country near Wood Mountain in southern Saskatchewan. He was three years old when he began to play the auto harp. Later he learned to play the fiddle, guitar and mandolin. As a teenager he played

Philip Lethbridge

 for dances to earn spending money. He used to carry his fiddle and guitar on a saddle horse to the band leader's place and then travel with him by car to the dances.
    While attending Teachers' College in Moose Jaw, he played on the CHAB radio station several times. After teaching a short time in Saskatchewan he moved to Alberta and taught near Edmonton where he met his wife Jackie. At the same time he played regularly with a band called "Country Pals."
    At Pincher Creek he formed his own band in 1968. The band became known as "Phil Lethbridge and the Westwinds. His wife Jackie and son Victor have been band members for many years. In 1992 Phil and the band recorded its first tape - "Fiddlin."
In 1990 Phil Lethbridge and the Westwinds played for the 100th Anniversary of the Wood Mountain Sports and Rodeo.


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