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New Brunswick's Matt Andersen has a larger than life showmanship that has been earning him a fervent and steadfast audience wherever he graces the stage. Matt's sprawling blues, roots and rock musical hybrid with his sorrowing and soulful voice has sparked a phenomenal buzz on Canada’s East Coast and that grass roots word of mouth cannot be contained any longer! The Keith Bennett band has performed regularly at the Yale Hotel in Vancouver for the past six years. The Yale Hotel, one of Canada's premier blues clubs, boasts live music seven nights a week and has hosted an astonishing array of world class musicians over the years. Members of THE BLAZERS have a great deal of experience traveling
the King’s Highway and playing live at festivals all over Ontario and clubs in
the Greater Toronto Area. Members of the band have recorded and/or shared the
stage with JUNO Award, Maple Blues Award, ECMA Award, and Indie Award
winners/nominees. Jimmy Bowskill has proven himself to be one of Canada’s most prominent musicians and singers. The 18-year-old has astounded everyone from The Allman Brothers Band founder Dickey Betts to ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons and Canadian icons Colin James and the late Jeff Healey. Brown is an excellent singer and band leader who reminds me a lot of the late Hock Walsh and he has put together a program that you can often hear in clubs but seldom so well played ........ heavy on blues feeling. ~ John Valenteyn Vancouver based guitarist, singer and songwriter Jason
Buie has been performing live since the age of sixteen. He has honed his
skills over the last fourteen years playing throughout Canada, the U.S.A.
and Japan. Along the way he has played and performed with such artists as
blues legend Buddy Guy, Taj Mahal, former Rolling Stone Mick Taylor, The
Jeff Healey Band, The Powder Blues Band, Big Dave Mclean, Jimmy D. Lane,
Wild T, Johnny Ferriera and Jerry Doucette. With the Release of his
critically acclaimed CD “Urban Blues” his profile continues to grow.
Jason's second CD" "Live at The Blue Gator" has just been
released. Trevor's performances can range from intimate solo shows to appearances with a full band including violin and cello. With the addition of a National steel guitar and that ever present harmonica, seeing Trevor live is a definite treat. Currently basing himself out of Kamloops, B.C. he tours between that province and Ontario, and his songs can be heard on radio across Canada. His festival appearances have included the Komasket Music Festival, Artswells Festival, and the Long Day's Night Music Festival. "Gerald Charlie knocks me out. I really enjoy his music.
He's got his own style and it's straight from the heart." CHARLIE
MUSSELWHITE. Mike truly is one of Canada's premiere blues and roots artists and has been nominated for a Maple Blues Award in the category of "Horn Player of the Year" for three consecutive years. In 2008 Mike has named Sax Player of the Year by the Calgary Blues Music Blues Music Association's Hall of Fame. Kat Danser... Sherman left home at fifteen with a harmonica and a twenty dollar bill in his pocket bound for the west coast to Vancouver, British Columbia. It was there that he discovered the Chicago blues style on an album featuring Muddy Waters, Junior Wells and James Cotton. He soon began singing and playing in a series of local blues and rock bands. By the age of seventeen, he had developed a style of playing greatly influenced by the late great Paul Butterfield. Sue Foley.... Although still relatively young in "blues years", David Gogo has accomplished much in his career. So far he has three Juno nominations, was named Musician of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards, was twice named Guitarist of the Year at the Maple Blues Awards, and has been bestowed with the CBC Saturday Night Blues, Great Canadian Blues Award for a lifetime contribution to the blues in Canada. Kelowna, British Columbia's Rick Halisheff - a.k.a. Poppa Dawg -
turns in a solid set of traditional Blues penned by the excellent guitarist and
singer. A world class blues musician, Tim is also a Juno Award winning songwriter. He tours regularly, playing with a wide variety of performers. He currently lives in Vancouver, Canada, where he operates a small recording studio, working with many local and international artists.
Bill Johnson began playing the guitar when he was 9 years old. Records by Hank Williams, Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones, and Eric Clapton, were his early influences, but Bill remembers: “ Chuck Berry was the one that did it for me. Chuck made me want to play guitar”. Bill became a working musician early and spent most of his teens making music. Jack de Keyzer.... I was born in Vancouver B.C. Canada in 1956 and I have been a
part of Vancouver's Blues scene for over twenty years. A masterful guitarist, Paul has been playing since the age of ten. Drawing upon the influences of guitar legends such as Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, Paul has honed his skill to near-perfection. He honours the songs of the greats by playing them with amazing precision and at the same time, investing them with his own intense feeling. After his solos, it is not uncommon to see people cheering jubilantly while shaking their heads in disbelief and awe. In addition to his electric blues gigs with the MLB, Marshall also performs acoustic dobro blues as a solo artist or as a duo with a little harmonica on the side. His acoustic slide playing is steeped in roots music and has a true and genuine blues feel. His throaty vocals remind you of sitting in a smoky Gin Joint in the '30s and '40s listening to the blues masters, and his pounding rhythms and fierce attack on the guitar transform each song into raw emotion. The Mojo Stars, a highly original blues/rock band with roots in R&B, funk and jazz. Since forming the band has played The Media Club's closing night as part of the International Jazz Festival, both in 2006 and 2007. In 2007 the band played the Consumer Choice Awards Ceremony. 2008 saw them headline the New Westminster Show & Shine as well as move into the world of Casinos, playing to near capacity crowds at the Starlight Casino. The band has just released its first highly anticipated CD Gary Preston plays a delicious mix of blues and boogie on harmonica, keyboards and vocals. He has performed from Vancouver to Toronto, Detroit to the Caribbean. His recordings with Anita Bonkowski have received airplay and strong reviews around the world, and 2008 featured a CD release tour of Belgium and The Netherlands. Gary's harp playing is top notch, and he has been a regular headliner at the Harmonica Blast at the Yale Hotel as well as being featured in major festivals such as The Winnipeg Folk Festival, the Calgary International Blues Festival, and the International Jazz Festival. Kenneth Wayne Spruell was born in Spokane, Washington in 1944,
and spent his early years in New Orleans with his Louisiana-born parents. At AGE
8, he moved with his family to San Francisco and then to Los Angeles. A child
prodigy on piano, Kenny was encouraged by his preacher father to play gospel
music. But UNBEKNOWNST to his father, the Reverend Matthew Spruell, he was also
secretly introduced to the radically more exciting boogie-woogie style by his
rebel uncle Charlie his father’s youngest brother. David Wilcox is a brilliant song writer, a great singer, and one of the hottest guitar players in the world. He first made his name as a wild, live performer and then as a first-rate recording artist whose work, from "Out Of The Woods" (1980) to his brand new release, "Boy In The Boat" (2007), stands the test of time. Tim Williams is a blues-based singer / songwriter / multi - instrumentalist. He is a 40 year veteran of the 'Roots' music scene in North America, roots which stretch back to the coffee-house scene of his native California in the mid 60's. Settling in Canada in 1970, Tim is a studio musician, producer, and a performer in constant demand. He has played Folk / Blues / Jazz festivals and concert halls and clubs from Halifax, to Vancouver Island, to the Yukon. Inspired by the Hillbilly and Western Swing music he heard as a child, Tim absorbed late Fifties Rhythm & Blues and Rock & Roll, Hawaiian and Mexican music, early Sixties Folk, and Bluegrass “like a sponge” before discovering a passion for traditional blues styles which was fueled by seeing many first generation blues musicians live during the “Blues Boom” of the mid and late Sixties."
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