The third set is an open jam session - feel free to bring your guitar or horn. Piano/bass/drums provided.
=0D=0A=This engaging piano trio, featuring three of Nanaimo’s most talented, versatile and experienced jazz musicians, delivers classic jazz standards along with some originals.
=0D=0A=Pianist Patrick Courtin and bassist Marisha Devoin are graduates of Vancouver Island University’s bachelor of music program, while percussionist James McRae brings decades of experience as a musician, arranger and producer. Chances are you’ve seen them all performing in various shows at The Chemainus Theatre Festival.
=0D=0A=This show is a warm-up to a CD Courtin will be recording with Devoin and McRae the next day. Devoin has also worked with cruise ship orchestras and cabaret bands as well as jazz, bluegrass, R & B and progressive rock bands, while Courtin has toured with local tenor Ken Lavigne and was the director/pianist and an actor with the Theatre Royal in Barkerville Historical Town. McRae has performed with such jazz luminaries as Chris Whitely, Marc Atkinson, Scott White, Hugh Fraser, Kate Hammet-Vaughan, Floyd Standifer, Miles Black and Karel Roessingh. https://www.facebook.com/events/318792448614423/
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