WABASH — Backed by Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi’s widow, Judy Belushi-Pisano, The Official Blues Brothers Revue is live at the Honeywell Center this weekend at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 9.

Ink Free News had a chance to talk with Kieron Lafferty, who performs as Elwood Blues (2.0) and Wayne Cantania, as Jake Blues (2.0). The guys have been working together for around 18 years. They started working together during the late 1990s in Las Vegas and performed together in the Legends in Concert as The Blues Brothers. Lafferty started working with Catania when a friend of his, who was a performer in the concert, told Lafferty that an Elwood performer had quit. At the time he said it was the furthest thing from his mind, but he went to see the show and enjoyed it. He decided to audition and got the role.

Catania said his resemblance to John Belushi is what led him to be offered the role as Jake by Aykroyd and Belushi-Pisano. Catania said he’s always been a musician and when he was putting albums out and doing clubs people would come up to him and ask to have their picture taken with him and he thought, “Man, this record is really taking off,” but he realized it was just his resemblance to Belushi. That resemblance landed him and Lafferty in an A&E docudrama by Filmmaker Paul Jay, called Lost in Las Vegas, which led Aykroyd and Belushi-Pisano to offer them roles as Jake and Elwood.

Lafferty, Catania, with Belushi-Pisano and Anne Beats, one of the  original writers from SNL, have written a pilot on the further adventures of Jake and Elwood in the modern world and it is currently in the Hollywood machinery, according to Lafferty, who is hoping it will happen in some form.

In closing Lafferty said of playing at the Honeywell, and of their band, “We are really looking forward to getting into that part of the country and we look forward to rocking out doing some blues and R&B with a great, great band. The fans will love these guys.”

Catania is also a fan of their band, “We have an incredible band with us everywhere we go. These guys are worth the ticket price alone.”