Parachute Club

Parachute Club was a Canadian band that released three top 40 hits in Canada between 1983 and 1987, including "Rise Up", "At the Feet of the Moon" and "Love Is Fire". The band broke up in 1989, but a reconstituted version of the Parachute Club has played a number of shows between 2005 and 2008.

The original Parachute Club band consisted of Lorraine Segato on vocals and guitar, Lauri Conger on keyboards and vocals, Billy Bryans on drums, Margo Davidson on saxophone and vocals, Julie Masi on percussion and vocals, Steve Webster on bass and Dave Gray on guitar.

They recruited poet/artist Lynne Fernie to assist with some of the lyrics and their first album, The Parachute Club, was released in 1983. Fernie would contribute lyrics to all their albums and function as an unofficial honourary member of the group.

The song "Rise Up", from Parachute Club's first album, won a Canadian Juno Award in 1984 for Single of the Year, while the group won a Juno award for Most Promising Group of The Year.

The band's second album At the Feet of the Moon was released In October 1984, and the title track became the group's second Canadian Top 40 hit. In 1985, the group received the Juno Award for Group of the Year. A album of remixed tracks, Moving Thru The Moonlight, was also issued in late 1985.

In 1986, The Parachute Club released their third album, Small Victories. The album included the group's third and final top 40 hit, "Love is Fire", featuring Segato singing a duet with John Oates of Hall & Oates. In 1987, the group's video of their single, "Love Is Fire" received the Juno Award for Video of the Year.

In 1987, they composed and performed four songs for the Canadian and U.S. versions of the anime series, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

After a final non-album single in 1988, "Big Big World", the band's final performances were in July 1988 at Ontario Place in Toronto. In early 1989, the original Parachute Club formally disbanded, with band members going their separate ways. Some members, such as Lorraine Segato and Billy Bryans, continued as professional musicians, while other members, such as Margo Davidson and Lauri Conger, substantially left the music business.

In 2005, a reconstituted Parachute Club commenced performing, co-headlining a reunion show with Martha and the Muffins and headlining at Toronto's City Roots Festival. In 2006, The Parachute Club was inducted into the Canadian Indies Hall of Fame. Through 2008, the reconstituted band performed on a regular basis, although they did not release any new material. The Parachute Club played their last gig in August 2008.

Segato performed "Rise Up" at the state funeral of Jack Layton on August 27, 2011, with the choir of the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto.

Music Videos

 * At the Feet of the Moon
 * Love Is Fire
 * Rise Up
 * Sexual Intelligence