Thursday Sept. 30

12:00 - 1:00

Admission:

$10.00 + HST

Noontime Concert Co-presented by

Quality Foods

SPOTLIGHT ON YOUTH (CLASSICAL)    

JEFFREY LUO                  

We are very excited to feature our youngest performer to date! This 10-year-old West Vancouver sensation has already won prestigious awards and astounded high profile audiences from around the world.

Ten-year-old Jeffrey Luo has been studying the piano since he was five. In addition to many awards, prizes and scholarships won at local festivals, he also won First Place in the Canadian Music Competition in 2007. His professional engagements include playing Christmas Carols at the West Vancouver public library the past two years running, and last fall he was asked to perform a recital for guests of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to raise awareness for a new Dalai Lama Peace Centre planned for Vancouver. His first teacher was Sasha Starcevich and for the last two years, he has been studying with Ralph Markham and Kenneth Broadway. Jeffrey is a serious chess player, enjoys skiing and begins Grade Five in West Vancouver in the fall of 2010.

Thursday Sept. 30

7:00 - 9:00

Admission:

$15.00 + HST

JAZZ QUINTET CONCERT                     

Nick McGowan-tenor saxophone

Tony Wilson-guitar                                      

Ron Hadley-piano, Sean Drabitt-bass, Kelby MacNayr-drums

Great straight ahead jazz standards and originals performed by some of Coastal BC’s finest players

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NICK McGOWAN has over 40 years of performing tucked into his tenor sax.  His professional career has been divided between stage and studio work in Vancouver and Toronto.  He moved to Hornby Island in the 1980s and continues as a first-call musician on Vancouver Island and BC's Lower Mainland.

TONY WILSON: Vancouver's Coastal Jazz and Blues hails him as "unquestionably one of the most original guitar stylists on the Canadian scene". Down Beat Magazine entitles him as "...a talismanic West Coast figure." On 'Horse's Dream', his first solo-based guitar recording, Tony Wilson taps into the history of jazz and blues with his compositions. They shift from Leadbelly’s moaning style to Metheny-like combustion. The other side of the album includes incomparable improvisation's that seem to be heading for an unknown target in an unknown land, a la John Fahey or Marc Ribot. Although Horse's Dream is solo-guitar based, it includes appearances by the odd fiddle, fireplace, spoon and kora. This unique album was recorded in a cabin at the Shire on Hornby Island.

Tony Wilson has studied with many acclaimed jazz musicians including Oliver Gannon, Dave Holland, John Abercrombie, Kevin Eubanks and Steve Coleman. Tony won a West Coast Music Award with his band Video Barbeque and released the critically acclaimed ‘Lowest Note’ in 2001, which went on to become a pick of the year in the Globe and Mail. Tony’s current sextet, which includes 5 young Vancouver improvisor’s, is turning heads after recent successful appearances at this year’s Guelph and Vancouver Jazz Festivals. Tony’s compositions have been played by artists as diverse as the NOW Orchestra, The Hard Rubber Orchestra, Myra Melford, Kokoro Dance, Marilyn Crispell, François Houle and Zubot & Dawson. Tony has shared the stage with well know international artists such as Vinny Golia, William Parker, Wilbert de Joode, Gerry Hemingway, Han Bennink, Marilyn Lerner, Toby Delius, Benoit Delbecq & Eric Boeren in the US and Europe.