Hailing from Vancouver, British Columbia, Willie Kuklis and The Disappointments began their collaborative effort in the summer of 2005. The band is a new undertaking that takes the original music of Willie Kuklis and adds drummer Chris Fowlie, keyboardist Matt Adolf and bassist Aaron Burnett.
All former members of the eclectic folk band Cultured Cowboy, they decided to take their music in an entirely different direction, and form the now infamous Willie Kuklis and the Disappointments.
With a wide variety of influences and inspirations as well as varied musical backgrounds, the band takes pleasure in combining different forms and song structures. In short Willie Kuklis and The Disappointments infuses traditional folk structures with the intense and emotional hooks of modern rock to create a unique sound once described as..."Canadian".
With the release of their latest album The Hand That Pays Willie Kuklis and the Disappointments are receiving national radio play, and are quickly becoming a force to be reckoned with on the "Canadian" music scene.