Ray Davies has never been known for his predictability. While other British singer-songwriters of his generation were writing about lost loves, the former Kinks frontman penned songs about cigarettes and tea, the imperiled Village Green, and a ballad about the sun setting over Waterloo Train Station.

So it was not entirely a surprise Friday evening when the 67-year-old Davies brought out 46 members of the Dessoff Choir in the second half of his concert at the Wellmont.

Davies started the evening with an acoustic guitar before adding a rock band and then the choir, in a two-and-a-half-hour performance that covered most of his musical career (although with only a five-second snippet of The Kinks hit, "Lola").

And yes, the choir joined in for the encore, The Kinks' first big hit, "You Really Got Me."