Jazz Violinist Cameron Wilson And His Bbc Trio - Featuring Bill Coon, Guitar And Brent Gubbels, Bass at Kay Meek Arts Centre

The amazing violinist Cameron Wilson will perform on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 15 at 3 pm at Kay Meek Arts Centre's McEwen Theatre as a part of Kay Meek's Jazz Violin Concert series, curated by noted jazz violinist and historian, Kit Eakle as part of his Jaz'N'theViolin Concerts. Wilson, perhaps best known as the long-time violinist with the 'Gypsy Jazz' ensemble 'VanDjango,' is also a fine composer and arranger. Bill Coon, one of Canada's finest jazz guitarists, will join Wilson. Wilson and Coon have collaborated often with wonderful results, most notably in a recent Double Quartet project featuring a jazz quartet and string quartet led by Wilson playing original music by Mr. Coon. Cameron and Bill promise a fabulous evening of jazz standards augmented by a number of their original compositions. ...

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The amazing violinist Cameron Wilson will perform on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 15 at 3 pm at Kay Meek Arts Centre's McEwen Theatre as a part of Kay Meek's Jazz Violin Concert series, curated by noted jazz violinist and historian, Kit Eakle as part of his Jaz'N'theViolin Concerts. Wilson, perhaps best known as the long-time violinist with the 'Gypsy Jazz' ensemble 'VanDjango,' is also a fine composer and arranger. Bill Coon, one of Canada's finest jazz guitarists, will join Wilson. Wilson and Coon have collaborated often with wonderful results, most notably in a recent Double Quartet project featuring a jazz quartet and string quartet led by Wilson playing original music by Mr. Coon. Cameron and Bill promise a fabulous evening of jazz standards augmented by a number of their original compositions.

Violinist Cameron Wilson has been a fixture on the Vancouver music scene for the past three decades. He is recognized as one of the most versatile violinists able to play a wide variety of different musical genres. He was a long standing member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and performs with classical crossover piano trio, Joe Trio as well as the gypsy jazz quartet, Van Django, The Wahs, Hard Rubber Orchestra, Mariachi del Soul, and the Marc Atkinson Quartet. He is one of the city's most sought after studio musicians and he is also a composer/arranger whose works have been performed by a number of symphony orchestras and chamber ensembles across Canada and the US. Bill Coon is a Canadian jazz guitarist and composer. He is a Juno nominated artist and the winner of the 2009 National Jazz Awards, ‘Guitarist of the Year’.

This is an evening NOT to be missed!

This is the Final Kit Eakle's Jaz'N'theVIolin Concert at Kay Meek for this year. However the series will now move to PYATT HALL in downtown Vancouver for Eakle's own show on Feb. 12, followed by 2 more concerts, one in March featuring Lache Cercel, a Roumanian jazz violinist, and one on May 9 featuring one of the world's finest jazz violinist, Danish violinist, Mads Tolling.

Category: Live Music | Jazz

Price:
General Admission: CAD 42.00

Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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