About Us
Meet the Band
Meet "Stevie and Friends" - a tribute band that celebrates the music of Stevie Nicks and her collaborations with other artists. Led by their stunning lead vocalist, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the legendary Fleetwood Mac singer, they capture the essence of Stevie's solo career and her work with other musicians.
Stevie and Friends formed in 2015, driven by their passion for Stevie's unique voice and songwriting style. With a lineup of talented musicians and a repertoire that spans Stevie’s solo career, Fleetwood Mac hits, and collaborations with other artists, they offer a diverse and exciting tribute experience.
Our Stevie, Claudette Rodrigues
Lead vocalist Claudette Rodrigues embodies Stevie's signature style with her flowing hair, bohemian wardrobe, and captivating stage presence. From "Edge of Seventeen" to "Landslide," she delivers each song with passion and authenticity, transporting audiences back to the height of Stevie's career.
Keyboardist/vocalist Tony Rodrigues
Tony Rodrigues is an accomplished multi-keyboardist and vocalist who infuses the band’s sound with energy, texture and polish from someone who is obsessed with sonic accuracy and musicianship. A veteran player with decades of experience in tribute bands, progressive rock projects and cover bands around Victoria and the San Francisco Bay Area, Tony’s onstage energy and focus on entertaining the audience helps the band stand out. Whether he is re-creating a Motown horn section, a symphony orchestra, a screaming Hammond organ or lilting piano interludes, Tony captures the sonic fingerprint and musical nuances in any song. His incredible vocal range covers everyone from Tom Petty to Steve Perry to Bryan Adams.
Guitarist/Vocalist Tom Lang
Tom is our resident mad scientist and guitar guru. Besides being one of BC’s most accomplished players, he has spent many years working in the audio electronics industry, helping to design state-of-the-art recording studio equipment currently in use in studios and on stages around the world.
By night he’s a guitar virtuoso, and has played in bands all his life. In his younger years he played on tour with Australian legend Jimmy Barnes, including multiple opening spots with ZZ Top on their Australian tour.
More recently he was recruited by Sting and The Police to provide specialized audio processing equipment for their legendary 2007-2008 reunion tour. Tom spent two weeks with the band in Vancouver as they rehearsed the show before heading out on their world-wide tour.
Tom plays electric and acoustic guitar, and a mean fiddle too! His vocal talents cover everyone from Lindsay Buckingham to Stevie Wonder to Paul Simon.
Bassist/vocalist Les Weiss
Les starting taking piano lessons at age 5 and has been involved in music in some capacity ever since. Achieving his certificates from the Royal Conservatory of Canada, he then went on to play and study arrangement in the Cosmopolitan Orchestra of Edmonton under the direction of Tommy Banks.
This started him applying his knowledge to other instruments and is proficient in many as well as being an accomplished singer and songwriter. After a year of post secondary education he hit the road and toured all across Canada and parts of the US and UK in various bands for 7 years. He returned to Edmonton and recorded an album with the county rock band One Horse Blue with Texas producer Howard Steele where he absorbed recording techniques and eventually partnered with others to form M&M Recorders and worked there producing many artists and radio programs.
Les plays multiple instruments and produced a CD for local blues man Cal Bachelor and has performed at the Victoria Blues Bash and the Victoria Jazz and Folk Festivals.
Les’s vocal range includes everyone from Don Henley to Bob Seger to Huey Lewis.
Drums/percussionist Geoff Bate
As the ‘heartbeat’ of the band and the rhythm of the dance floor, Geoff has been providing a solid backbeat for bands across western Canada for decades.
A professional musician since age 14, his earliest bands had him playing in bars in Edmonton at the age of 16, requiring special permission from the Musicians’ Union. He’s been active in bands ever since, including tours of clubs across western Canada. He moved to Victoria in 1983 and has been keeping the beat for local audiences ever since.
Geoff is also the founder of Imagine Words and Music Inc., one of Canada’s busiest audio production studios. You hear their work every day on local Victoria radio and TV in jingles for Capital Iron, The Finishing Store, Galaxy Motors and many more.
The brother and sister!
This duo has been creating music together since they were in diapers :-)