Photo: Tom Cole/YouTube

The four musicians play together, from home.

While the 2020 edition of the Kamloops Cowboy Festival has been cancelled, some musicians decided the show must go on.

Tom Cole, a singer/songwriter from Charlie Lake in northern B.C., had been planning on playing at the festival this past weekend. However, due to COVID-19, the shows were cancelled and everyone stayed home.

But Cole decided that he'd still play a set in honour of the festival, and looped in three other musicians. The four men — Cold Lake-based bassist Mike Dygert, Okotoks's Jim McLennan on guitar and Salmon Arm's Beau Hughes on steel slide guitar — linked up from their homes via the internet and recorded together.

"I thought I would do a couple songs anyway because I was really looking forward to (it)," he says in the video.

The 13-minute clip includes a trio of songs along with some banter and storytelling.

"Thank you very much for stopping by," he says at the end of the video. Check it out below.