Bradley/McGillivray is a Vancouver-based musical partnership that has spanned 20 years. Led by groove, improv and raw, unadulterated emotion, they blend blues, jazz, funk and gospel into their own hip brand of soul. Ruth McGillivray is a singer you won’t forget–captivating, authentic and entertaining, with a wicked set of pipes. Her knock-you-flat vocals are the [...]
What separates Brandon from the rest of the pack besides his world-class musicianship and song writing, is his ability to connect and involve the audience in his live shows. After many nominations by The Maple Blues Awards, (Canada's national blues awards) this Yukonion guitar slinger finally won his first MBA last year for (Acoustic Act [...]
Brent Parkin is a veteran of the Winnipeg music scene and has been playing for audiences in Winnipeg and across Canada for well over 40 years. Brent’s music is a mix of Chicago style Blues, Swing, Roots music with some Country and Roots Rock and Roll thrown in for good measure. He is comfortable playing [...]
Arriving on the west coast from New York City, Tim made Vancouver his adopted home and quickly gained a reputation as one of the city’s rising young guitar talents. Hard work and dedication to his music have rewarded him with the friendship and respect of his peers. By day, Tim works with Vancouver’s finest studio [...]
Arriving on the west coast from New York City, Tim made Vancouver his adopted home and quickly gained a reputation as one of the city’s rising young guitar talents. Hard work and dedication to his music have rewarded him with the friendship and respect of his peers. By day, Tim works with Vancouver’s finest studio [...]
In a career spanning over three decades, Tim's music has been recorded by the likes of Amos Garrett to Jim Byrnes and has been featured in TV and films.
The Grand Koolios are six of Western Canada’s premiere live performance and session musicians with collective biographies that read like a who’s who of the top blues, country and roots music worlds.
The Grand Koolios are three of Western Canada’s premiere live performance and session musicians with collective biographies that read like a who’s who of the top blues, country and roots music worlds.
Local Karen Graves is a passionate and fiery jazz flautist, sax player, composer and vocalist. She has played with the who’s who of BC Jazz Artists including Brad Turner, Miles Black, Tom Keenlyside, Celso Machado and Jennifer Scott. While playing in the Banff Jazz orchestra under the direction of Hugh Fraser, Graves studied and played [...]
Guitar virtuoso Russell Marsland has been a powerful presence on the Vancouver music scene for more than 30 years. At 15, he would sneak out of his parents’ East Van house to play between strip shows at the Penthouse; two years later he was in the house band at famed ’70’s hangout Lasseter’s Den, performing [...]
The Peter Van Trio consists of three highly talented Sunshine Coast Musicians, Peter vanDeursen, Al Alford and Tim Rannard. Playing a smooth mix of Blues, Rock and R & B.
Robert Connely Farr is a songwriter originally from Bolton, Mississippi (Charley Patton/Mississippi Sheiks) currently residing in Vancouver, Canada. Since 2017, cherished elder Mississippi bluesman Jimmy “Duck” Holmes has been mentoring Farr in the Bentonia Style of the Delta Blues, an obscure style that Holmes learned directly from Henry Stuckey, who also taught Skip James, among [...]
