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Sunday Brunch

10:00am to 1:30pm
Tickets: Adult - $40.00

Beaver Valley Community Centre, 81 Victoria St., Thornbury.

Brunch will be served at 10:00 and the performance begins at 11:30 and runs 'til 1:30 PM.

Heather Bambrick

Heather Bambrick, winner of the 2004 National Jazz Award for Vocalist of the Year, is in demand as a performer, educator, and broadcaster. She has performed with international Jazz artists, including Phil Nimmons, Kenny Wheeler, Guido Basso, Darmon Meader, Peter Appleyard, John Lamb, and Rob McConnell.

Heather has recorded with numerous acts, including the Royal Jelly Orchestra, Carol Welsman, the Caliban Quartet, and The Beehive Singers. Her own debut CD It's About Time (2003) was nominated for Best Jazz Recording at the 2004 East Coast Music Awards and is enjoying international praise and radio airplay. Her follow-up recording Those Were The Days is has also been nominated for Best Jazz Recording at the 2007 East Coast Music Awards. She and theatre great Rudy Webb are featured guests on a new release featuring the music of Irving Berlin and award winning actor, musician, and songwriter Irving Dobbs.

On stage, Heather is a consummate entertainer, performing for standing room only crowds at venues across Canada and in the US and bringing audiences to their feet at some of the country's most prestigious music festivals. Her live shows are a combination of timeless songs, brilliant musicianship, and Heather's unique sense of humour - all adding up to pure entertainment.

Heather's voice has been heard throughout North America on radio and television commercials, as well as on film and television soundtracks. Since 2001, Heather has firmly entrenched herself in the world of broadcasting, hosting the highly popular 'Sunday Afternoon Jazz', on Canada's only all-Jazz radio station, Jazz FM91. Heather was honoured with Broadcaster of the Year awards at both the 2005 and 2007 National Jazz Awards.

The native Newfoundlander is a graduate of the University of Toronto Faculty of Music, and is currently on faculty both at U of T and Humber College. When not in the classroom, Heather is busy as a clinician and adjudicator at music festivals across Canada.

http://www.heatherbambrick.com

Bill King Trio

The Bill King Trio with Heather Bambrick brings together four of Canada's best jazz interpreters. Festival Brunch patrons are in for another musical treat! Musician, songwriter, recording artist, record company owner, broadcaster, producer, publisher; e-publisher  are all terms that apply to Bill King. Born in Jeffersonville, Indiana, Bill studied piano and clarinet and by the early '60's had won 16 first place awards in classical piano and clarinet competitions. He also won a scholarship to Oscar Peterson's Advanced School of Contemporary music, attending in 63. Performing professionally since 1966, he settled permanently in Canada in the late 70's after acting as music director and pianist for the likes of Linda Ronstadt, Janis Joplin and Martha Reeves. In Toronto he formed the rock group China and by 1984, after a year-long stint with Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks, Bill opened his first independent jazz record label, Night Passage Records. During the mid-eighties, he began a career as a jazz broadcaster at Q-107 and has been a driving force in the success of the Beaches International Jazz Festival since it's inception in 1988. Currently Bill leads three of Toronto's most accomplished ensembles: The Jazz Report All-Stars, the revisionist Saturday Nite Fish Fry and Juno nominated Rockit 88 Band, all featuring some of the best musicians in Canada. For the Festival Brunch, Bill brings with him Duncan Hopkins on bass and Terry Clarke on Drums.

Patrons at last year's Brunch will remember Terry Clarke in the Peter Appleyard Quintet. Born in 1944 in Vancouver, he has played with legendary saxophonist John Handy III, the world-famous pop vocal group, 'The Fifth Dimension', and after relocating to Toronto in 1970, jazz guitar legend Jim Hall and piano great, Oscar Peterson. An original member of the, 'Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass' jazz big band, he is now a member of the 'The Rob McConnell Tentet'. Terry is also an enthusiastic jazz educator, and for the past several years has been a member of the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto. In 2002 he was named a Member of the Order of Canada, and subsequently was named the National Jazz Awards 'Drummer of the Year' for five consecutive years (2004 - 2008).

British born Duncan Hopkins has been busy establishing himself as a double bassist, composer and arranger and educator around the world. Aside from his own projects, he has become a popular sideman for a wide variety of artists including Dianna Krall, Kenny Wheeler and Peter Appleyard to name just three. He was the last bassist in the famed Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass for several tours including Brazil and concerts at Carnegie Hall. Duncan has toured extensively throughout Canada, Great Britain, Europe, Brazil and the United States and has been recorded on over forty albums. Duncan's solo albums which feature all original material from the leader, have received international acclaim. His latest CD, 'Bloor Street' is the long-awaited follow-up to 'Secret' from 2002 by his international group Secret Quartet. It is due for release in March 2010. He is visiting professor of jazz studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London, England and divides his time between the U.K. and Canada.

http://www.billkingmusic.com/aboutus.cfm