Kit Eakle

Sun, Oct 23, 2022 3 pm – 5 pm

Listen to Kit’s music. Violinist Kit Eakle is internationally known for his violin playing and knowledge of Jazz Violin history. Eakle founded the legendary jazz violin series ‘Point Richmond Jazz’ before moving to Vancouver and establishing Kay Meek’s Jazz Violin concert series. His new group ‘Jaz’N’theViolin will play the music of Jazz Violinists throughout its history, demonstrating the importance of violin in jazz, while evoking every period of jazz from BEFORE its beginning’s to the present and beyond!

Sun, Nov. 13, 2022 3 pm – 5 pm

Listen to Lenny’s music. Lenny Solomon is an incredible award winning violinist. He is the founder of the AMAZING group, BowFire, the LENNY in the Canadian rock group from the 70’s, ‘Myles and Lenny‘ He has been a studio musician in Toronto for over 40 years. He has recorded MANY CDs in his own name, including 2015’s The Blues Violin, Lenny Solomon – The Gershwin Sessions and After You’ve Gone – The Classic Jazzer’s Violin of Lenny Solomon.

Lenny is also one of Canada’s leading exponent’s of Hot Club experience, performing with his group ‘Lenny Solomon and the Hot Club Experience’ for this show. The group will feature the rhythm section of Vancouver’s ‘Hot Club’ group,’The Lawless Firm‘including veteran ‘Gypsy Jazz’ guitarists, Don Ogilvie and Michael Dunn and bassist Joe Bourchier.

Sun, Jan 15, 2023 3 pm – 5 pm

Listen to Cameron’s music. The third in KMAC’s Jazz Violin Concert series will present Vancouver violinist extraordinaire Cameron Wilson in a trio setting with guitarist Bill Coon and bassist Brent Gubbels. Bill, Brent and Cam call themselves appropriately enough, the BBC Trio. They will play a variety of standards and original compositions by both Cameron and Bill.

Violinist Cameron Wilson has been a fixture on the Vancouver music scene for the past three decades. He is able to play a wide variety of different musical genres. A member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, he also performs with classical crossover piano trio, Joe Trio as well as the gypsy jazz quartet, VanDjango, The Wahs, Hard Rubber Orchestra, Mariachi del Soul, and the Marc Atkinson Quartet.

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’.