program notes woodstock 2 - the no shows

PROGRAM NOTES
WOODSTOCK 2 - THE NO SHOWS
Jeans ‘n Classics
Wednesday, May 21 @ 8PM
Thursday, May 22 @ 8PM
Centre In The Square, Kitchener
There were a lot of luminaries who were invited to perform at
Woodstock, but declined for hilarious and outrageous reasons,
and as such there is a bit of infamy and comedy around it
all. Ironically, many of the ‘no shows’ have had careers that
far outshone many of the artists who did play Woodstock.
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REPERTOIRE
Turn, Turn, Turn............................................................. The Byrds
Ride My See Saw............................................. The Moody Blues
Riders On The Storm................................................... The Doors
Help Me......................................................................Joni Mitchell
Black Dog...................................................................Led Zeppelin
I Shall Be Released........................................................Bob Dylan
Crossroads............................................................................ Cream
Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers/Beck’s Bollero......... Jeff Beck
INTERMISSION
Sunshine Of Your Love....................................................... Cream
Touch Me....................................................................... The Doors
Living In The Past......................................................... Jethro Tull
River............................................................................Joni Mitchell
Eight Miles High............................................................ The Byrds
Wild Horses.................................................... The Rolling Stones
One Fine Morning....................................................... Lighthouse
Woodstock................................................................Joni Mitchell
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WHO’S WHO
MITCH TYLER (Conductor) Mitchell
Tyler, a London, Ontario resident, is an
Honours Bachelor of Music (Theory
and Composition) and Bachelor of
Education graduate of the University
of Western Ontario and has been a
professional musician since 1987. As a
freelance electric and upright bassist,
conductor and music educator he has
done everything from theater, concert and symphony work
to session, club and corporate engagements. He is a part
time contract teacher of string music and classical guitar
with the Thames Valley District School Board in London,
Ontario.
As a long-time member of the Jeans ’n Classics Band,
Mitchell has worked with many orchestras in Canada
(Orchestra
London
Canada,
Kitchener-Waterloo
Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Edmonton Symphony,
Québec Symphony etc.) as well as in the United States
(Detroit Symphony, South Dakota Symphony, San Diego
Symphony et al). He has shared the stage with Roger
Hodgson (Supertramp), Lawrence Gowan (Styx), Rik
Emmett (Triumph), Alan Frew (Glass Tiger), as well as
Amy Skye, Rich Little, Joan Rivers, Mickey Rooney and
Donald O’Connor. Recent recordings include Denise
Pelley’s “Christmas From The Heart” (2007) and London
Pro Musica / Antler River Project’s “Songs of The Land”
(2008).
Mitchell has just begun his seventh season as a regular
guest conductor with Orchestra London Canada’s very
successful “Red Hot Weekends” series. In 2009, Orchestra
London Canada contracted him to write an educational
series of musical theatre shows for children that feature the
music of a great composer along with Mitchell’s original
music and the world famous children’s theatre troupe,
Dufflebag Theatre. In February, 2009, “The Adventures of
Robin Hood” was premiered featuring the 1938 film score
of Erich W. Korngold. In February, 2010, “Sleeping Beauty”
was premiered featuring Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet score.
The 3rd show in this series, “The Three Musketeers” was
produced in February 2011.
He has recently conducted the Jacksonville Symphony
(2008, 2009, 2010), The Duluth Superior Symphony
Orchestra (2010), The Lima Symphony Orchestra (2010),
The Erie Philharmonic (2009), The Colorado Symphony
Orchestra (2007) and the Cleveland Pops Orchestra
(2006) as well as the International Symphony Orchestra
(Sarnia/Port Huron). Mitchell is very much looking forward
to a return engagement with the Lima Symphony Orchestra
this season in addition to premiering a new secondary
school Educations Series concert this November with
Orchestra London Canada.
Mitchell also operates SMarT Laser Music Publishing
(www.smartlasermusic.ca) where he is kept busy working
as an arranger and music copyist.
NEIL DONELL (Lead Vocals) “You
blew me away!” These were the words
internationally renowned writerproducer David Foster spoke after
hearing Neil Donell sing for the first
time at Toronto’s legendary Blue Note
club. High praise indeed, yet such
accolades are not uncommon for the
singer/songwriter, who moved from
Montreal to emerge on Toronto’s music scene in the
eighties. Since then, Neil has come to prominence for his
extreme vocal versatility, gift for mimicry and four-octave
vocal range. This combination of attributes has made him
the “go to” voice for more than ten thousand recording
sessions, in virtually every medium where music is an
integral component. He has been referred to in the media
as “the most recorded voice in the country.” He has lent his
voice to the albums of many other artists: Anne Murray,
Triumph, Rush; the list goes on and on.
While signed to Sony Music in the nineties, Neil’s album
releases garnered him multiple Juno nominations. In 2009
Neil was asked by famed foreign correspondent Arthur
Kent to voice a song for Afghanistan in an effort to improve
conditions and awareness in the war torn country, to which
he gladly consented. More recently, his vocal performance
on “Love To Live In Toronto” earned the top prize in a
competition that featured more than five hundred entrants.
Current projects include ongoing pop concerts with
symphony orchestras throughout the U.S and Canada, and
lead vocals with the groups “Brass Transit” and “You Can
Close Your Eyes”, which perform musical retrospectives of
the songs of Chicago and James Taylor, respectively. Neil
continues to be in high demand, not only for his abilities as
a singer but also for his skillful expertise as both a producer
and arranger.
JEAN MEILLEUR (Lead Vocals)
‘Passionate
provocative
and
distinctive’ - three words that best
describe Jean Meilleur’s vocal style.
While performing the music of a great
many artists including Elton John,
The Beatles, Blood Sweat & Tears,
and David Bowie, as well as his own
compositions, he paints the lyrics and
the melody with a thick, robust timbre that is immediately
recognizable as his own. Despite the recent proliferation of
clone acts and mimics, Jean’s voice stands as a true original.
Jean hails from Madison, Wisconsin. He was born and
remains a Green Bay Packer fanatic! He moved to Detroit,
Michigan at a young age. Living in the Motor City helped
shape his penchant for the Motown, Soul and R&B sounds
of the early seventies.
Jean is a prolific songwriter who has been performing
professionally for over twenty-five years. He is thrilled to
be involved with Jeans ‘n Classics, a London Ontario based
Orchestral Rock act, that tours North American concert halls.
WHO’S WHO
Now in his sixteenth year as a Jeans ‘n Classics headliner,
Jean has performed with scores of major North American
orchestras.
“It’s a privilege to share the stage with a symphony
orchestra, Peter Brennan’s superb arrangements and a
flawless band. To have the opportunity to sing some of the
greatest popular music of our time, in my own voice, is a
rush beyond compare.”
Jean plans to release an album of his original songs in the
near future.
Go Pack Go!
RIQUE FRANKS (Lead and Backing
Vocals) Best known for her four duets
with Dan Hill (In Your Eyes, Hold Me
Now, Sometimes When We Touch
and Can’t We Try), Rique Franks has
sung, toured, recorded and/or written
with many Canadian and international
recording artists including Roger
Hodgson (Supertramp), Alannah
Myles, Alexander O’Neal, Martin Fry (ABC), Alan Frew
and Glass Tiger, Susan Aglukark, Bruce Guthro, Glen
Lewis, Joel Feeney (singer/songwriter for the likes of
LeAnn Rimes), Eddie Schwartz (Writer for Pat Benatar),
Lisa Dalbello, Ronnie Greenfield - formerly Spector
(The Ronettes), Lorraine Segato (Parachute Club),
Alfie Zappacosta, Stephan Mocchio (Celine Dion),
Marc Jordan (Rod Stewart) - the list goes on and on.
As a busy session singer and voice actor in Toronto, she
recently sang for David Clayton Thomas (Blood Sweat and
Tears) on his new album (Oct. 2010 release) as well as
Justin Nozouka’s newly-released album, You I Wind Land
and Sea. Unlike most singers who knew they wanted to do
this all their lives, Rique started late, in her mid twenties,
after being encouraged by her friend Rupert “Ojiji” Harvey
(Messenjah). She joined a cover-band on a lark and, within
the first week, was discovered by Marvin Dolgay (Tambre
Productions) and Doug Paulson (TV’s Thrill of a Lifetime).
Marvin somehow got her into the union (ACTRA) overnight
and hired her for her first jingle the very next day. That
jingle (for Thrifty’s) won an award and work suddenly
snowballed. Before she knew it, she was a very busy studio
singer and had to put university on hold. Most influenced
by the people she worked with doing jingles in those early
days, including Lisa Dalbello, Neil Donell (who sang with
her on that award-winning spot), David Blamires, Johnny
Rutledge and others, she has sung and/or read thousands
of memorable commercials for countless products.
Currently, Rique performs live as a featured soloist
and core performer with Jeans ‘n Classics singing
everything from Annie Lennox to Gershwin to Led
Zeppelin with orchestras across North America. Finally,
Rique can be heard daily as the on-air speaking-voice
of Showcase Television and Showcase Diva, saying,
among other things, “viewer discretion is advised”... a lot.
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Read more and listen at: www.myspace.com/riquefranks
KATALIN KISS (Lead and Backing
Vocals) Katalin is known in the
Canadian
music
industry
for
her staggering, tear the roof off,
goosebump-inducing vocals. In her
travels she’s worked with many
legends: Del Shannon, Chubby Checker,
Chuck Berry, and Chaka Khan. A much
respected member of the Jeans ‘n
Classics family, Katalin lives in Picton, Ontario with her
bassist husband and kids X3. They have their own recording
studio and have just begun renting a vacation cottage on
their property in “beautiful Prince Edward County” over the
summer months.
PETER BRENNAN (Guitar, Jeans ‘n
Classics Founder) Born in England,
Peter moved to Canada as a child.
Growing up he was heavily influenced
by the Beatles initially, however the
love affair with all things musical
continued and grew to include
everything from Jimi Hendrix to Gilbert
and Sullivan. Peter studied music
formally for a time, but ultimately the lure of a traveling
rock band won out. During the ‘70s and ‘80s he toured
extensively throughout North America, establishing
himself as a guitarist and Music Director with a variety of
groups. He also became an in demand producer/arranger
with top ten successes in the UK, producer awards and
grants in Canada and was selected as a Juno judge.
Peter has always loved the sound of a rock band with an
orchestra. In the early ‘90s this dream became a reality for
him with the establishment of Jeans ’n Classics. What began
as seven scared people assembled for a one-off concert
experiment with an equally nervous orchestra, has grown
into an ensemble of twenty-nine people presenting forty-five
different pop/rock productions with over eighty orchestras
worldwide, to some two hundred thousand people annually.
The J&C family features some of the finest vocalists and
instrumentalists in Canada and the US. It also boasts a
number of headliners of worldwide note, including Roger
Hodgson (formerly of Supertramp) and Martin Fry of ABC.
While there have been and continue to be magnificent
concert and orchestral experiences with Jeans ’n
Classics, certainly the April 2009 concert with ABC at
The Royal Albert Hall in London, England stands out.
On the home front Peter recently received the Mayor’s
Award for the Arts in London, Ontario where he
resides, and was named to the University Of Western
Ontario, Faculty Of Music “Wall Of Fame” in Sept. 2010.
DAVE DUNLOP (Guitar) Dave Dunlop
has been a pro guitarist/songwriter/
singer/educator for the past 25 years.
Currently, Dave balances his studio
work while touring as a member
of the award-winning “Strung-Out
Troubadours”, the “Rik Emmett Band”,
the “Alan Frew Trio” and “Jeans ’n
Classics”. Dave has been an integral
WHO’S WHO
member of the “Jeans ’n Classics” band since 2005,
traveling around North America playing live pop and
rock shows with Orchestras, winning rave reviews for his
handiwork in many shows, including the music of Pink
Floyd, The Beatles, and Queen.
Dave was lead guitarist and writer in the rock band “The
Full Nine”, signed to Disney’s Mammoth Records in 2001.
They had chart success with the single, “Not Over.” He’s
also been a faculty member at the National Summer Guitar
Workshop, and has had sideman stints with Bo Diddley,
Mike Reno (Loverboy), Ron Sexsmith, and many others.
In 2008 Dave joined re-formed Hall of Famers, “Triumph”,
supporting the original line-up of Rik Emmett, Gil Moore
and Mike Levine.
Dave established the “Room 9” studio in his Toronto home
in 2005, where he has been busy recording and producing
projects non-stop ever since. The studio has since drawn
him into the jingle world, with the writing of the music for a
U.S. Budweiser radio campaign.
Dave’s long-standing working relationship with Hall of
Famer Rik Emmett culminated in their duo project “StrungOut Troubadours” in 2006, with Dave co-writing, recording,
co-producing, mixing and performing on the project, all
in his Room 9 studio. The strength of the duo’s chemistry
snared them the “Album of the Year” and “Best Group/
Duo” prizes at the 2007 Canadian Smooth Jazz awards,
where they were the most heavily nominated act. Both of
the “Troubs” were also up for “Best Guitarist”.
Dave produced and mixed their follow-up CD, “Live at
Hugh’s Room” (2007), showcasing the acoustic duo in a
magical evening captured just before Christmas 2006 at
the fabled Toronto venue. The “Troubs” have since followed
up the “Hugh’s Room” disc with the 2009 criticallyacclaimed release “Push & Pull”, also produced at Room 9.
Dave endorses Gibson guitars, Dean guitars, and Traynor
amplifiers.
http://davedunlop.com
http://myspace.com/davedunlop
JEFF CHRISTMAS (Drums) Jeff is a
Canadian-based composer, arranger,
conductor, drummer, percussionist
and trumpeter. He studied at York
University, Toronto, the University of
Western Ontario, London, Ontario,
and Berklee College of Music,
Boston, where he majored in Film
Scoring and Composition. He has
performed with several symphony orchestras across North
America, as well as appearing internationally with such
notable artists as Denny Doherty, The Rankin Sisters, Ashley
McIsaac, J.P. Cormier, and Michael Burgess. He recently
conducted a tour with Roger Hodgson (Supertramp). He was
musical director/arranger for the Opening of the MTS Center
in Winnipeg where he conducted the WSO and guest artists
Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings, Tom Cochrane and
Chantal Kreviazuk. His musical theatre experience includes
productions at the Grand Theatre London, Huron Country
Playhouse, and the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, as well
as a four-month position with Chandris Fantasy Cruise
Lines based in the Caribbean. His jazz performances include
collaborations with Sam Noto, Phil Nimmons, Al Kay, Jeff
Stout, George Zonce, Duncan Hopkins, Mike Murley, Kevin
Turcotte, Jerry Johnson, and Guido Basso.
During his tenure as composer in residence with Orchestra
London, he wrote several major compositions including
Algoma, a tone poem for orchestra, and Concerto for English
Horn. Jeff has worked with Amy Sky, Marc Jordan, Lorraine
Segato (The Parachute Club), Alan Frew (Glass Tiger), Rik
Emmett (Triumph) Brian Vollmer (Helix), Lawrence Gowan,
Jim Witter, Thomas Wade and The Spoons.
Jeff’s original compositions for a wide variety of ensembles
are in demand internationally. His music for the Opening
Ceremonies of the Canada Games premiered on national
television in the summer of 2001. Jeff has worked on various
feature films and television programs with credits including
High Point Casinos (Global TV), National Aboriginal
Achievement Awards (CBC) and “Chatroom” (HBO, BET).
His most recent commissions include Bluewater Portrait
for solo oboe and orchestra, and Canadian Voyage, a fivemovement suite for french horn and orchestra.
DON PAULTON (Keyboard) Don
returns for his 17th season with Jeans
‘n Classics. As a longtime member of
Canadian super-group “Lighthouse”
he was inducted into the Canadian
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.
He’s worked with five Juno awardwinners and has performed with such
acts as Chuck Berry, Aretha Franklin,
The Byrds, Peter Noone (Herman’s Hermits), Del Shannon,
Ben E. King, Leslie Gore and the Platters. Don toured
extensively with the hit theatre production, “A Closer Walk
With Patsy Cline” (officially endorsed by Patsy Cline’s
husband), mastering the piano styles of Floyd Kramer, and has
appeared with symphony orchestras across North America
as a much valued member of the Jeans ‘n Classics band.
STEVE HOGG (Electric Bass) Steve
Hogg was born in Brentwood England
and emigrated with his family at the
age of 5. He began playing drums, bass
and guitar at 14 years of age and has
been a full-time musician ever since.
He has performed and recorded with
Ian Thomas, Ronnie Hawkins, Gowan,
Amy Sky and has had his material
recorded by many artists. Steve has toured and recorded in
Australia, England, Asia, Canada and the U.S. Having lived
and performed in Hong Kong for 3 1/2 years , Steve now
makes his home in Kitchener Ontario Canada.
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ABOUT JEANS ‘N CLASSICS
Peter Brennan’s Jeans ‘n Classics is a winner! Since
its inception, it has been a star performer in the arts
and entertainment scene. Its concept of combining
rock musicians and headlining stars with worldclass symphony orchestras has drawn record setting
capacity crowds.
Jeans ‘n Classics appeals to an age group from 25
to 65, with a heavy concentration in the Classic
Rock audience. The patrons are symphony-goers,
enthusiastic sponsors and business professionals
who wish to entertain clients, investors and reward
employees.
Jeans ‘n Classics is a group of musicians who
understand orchestra culture and are committed to
help in the building of younger, loyal audiences for
symphony orchestras across Canada and the United
States.
Website: www.jeansnclassics.com
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