They've been rock show favourites for 40 years and Prism is set to blow the roof off Voyageur Days this weekend in Mattawa.
This will be their fourth visit, as the event celebrates its 20 anniversary.
"The setting is just idyllic with the Ottawa River in the background and Quebec on the far shore," bass guitarist Al Harlow told BayToday. "The audience is so warm and enthusiastic, the crowd is great. It's a very warm feeling and you don't get that everywhere."
Prism started in 1975 as a loose studio project but came together in 1975. The name is in reference to assorted musical influences of blues, jazz and R&B.
"We've now done enough albums and songs that we've got a foothold in the Canadian psyche," Harlow says explaining the Vancouver group's enduring popularity. "For all of us it's the music we connect with, it becomes kind of the soundtrack to our life story, and I guess in many people's minds, once that happens you never go away," Harlow chuckles.
"We're still young enough and in good enough shape and we love doing it. It's our life's work and we see no reason to stop."
And they are still in the groove, bringing out a 40th anniversary single this year, and they vary their stage act constantly.
"We're still doing new arrangements and interpretations of our stuff onstage and the fans pick up on that, we change it up a lot."
Prism won a Juno award back in 1981 for "Group of the Year" and in 2011, their song "Spaceship Superstar" was chosen as the wake-up song for the Space Shuttle Discovery crew members.
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Harlow calls the song the band's "flagship song."
"On the space shuttle Discovery's final voyage, it was the theme song for that so it's another piece of history that NASA kind of enshrined in the space shuttle program. It was an amazing moment. Jim Vallance wrote the song and I got the news first from the Dallas newspaper. I guess NASA put out a news bulletin and somehow a fan emailed me and so I emailed Jim Vallance. He was blown away and said 'Wow, I guess we're on the charts on Mars."
You can catch Prism at 9 p.m. Saturday.
The three day event also features Trooper, the Road Hammers and Toronto and tickets are $50 in advance and 60 at the gate.
See the full schedule here.
