Alfie Fromager looks back

Originally published in the Owen Sound Sun Times, July 31, 2007.

Any way you look at him, Alfie Fromager is a big man.

He stands nearly six feet tall and weighs well over 250 pounds. Yet his dominance of a room stems not from his frame but from his friendly personality and his booming laugh.

He’s big in terms of his reputation, both as a person and as an entertainer. Nine years after he retired from life as a full-time country musician, his fans constantly implore him to perform again and flock to see him whenever and wherever he does.

“Everywhere we go, every party we sing at, they go crazy over him,” said his daughter Della Fromager, his longtime musical partner. “They could just die for what he does. He’s always been an entertainer.”