Spirit of the West

Spirit of the West
Spirit of the West at the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver 2008
Background information
Origin	North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Genres	Folk rock, Celtic rock
Years active	1983 (1983)–2016
Labels	Stony Plain, Warner, MapleMusic, Rhino, Elektra
Past members	John Mann Geoffrey Kelly Hugh McMillan Vince Ditrich Tobin Frank Matthew Harder J. Knutson Linda McRae Daniel Lapp
Website	sotw.ca

Spirit of the West were a Canadian folk rock band from North Vancouver, active from 1983 to 2016. They were popular on the Canadian folk music scene in the 1980s before evolving a blend of hard rock, Britpop, and Celtic folk influences which made them one of Canada's most successful alternative rock acts in the 1990s.^[1]