Welcome to my website! Browse around and listen to the music, and buy a few CD's if you feel so inclined.
I've got some some new projects on the go: doing a couple of solo sets at The Carrot on Friday 27January (please see the great poster by Marty Pawlina on this site!); playing at the Uptown Winterfest on 18 February; and I've signed on to a LIAP Media Project involving twelve local songwriters called "Celebrate!" It's going to be a huge project with it's own website, a documentary, a compilation CD with a concert-release booked at the University of Alberta's Timm's Centre for the Arts in April 2012. More to follow on this.
My wife Sheril and I have decided to lend our musical talents in support of a fundraiser and silent auction being held at the Blue Chair Cafe here in Edmonton on March 1st, 2012. This benefit will raise funds to help Edmonton's only Tibetan monk, named Kushok, to re-visit his homeland for the first time in 30 years. The driving force behind this is Jane Marshall, who is writing a book about Kushok's life story called "Back Over the Mountain"(http://old-site.avenueedmonton.com/articles/page/item/expelled-from-happy-valley) due for release in the new year.
In spring of 2005, two retired soldiers, songwriter Jay Anthony Willis and singer Jill Younghusband formed a partnership with Captain Brian Greenwood and the Royal Canadian Artillery Band to create a musical poppy, "Proud Canadian Soldier", to commemorate Canada’s Year of the Veteran.
Jay was inspired to write Proud Canadian Soldier in 1999 after attending a Remembrance Day ceremony at the National Monument in Ottawa. At every public performance of this occasional solemn piece, Jay's songwriting evokes positive, emotional and personal responses.
In spring of 2005, two retired soldiers, songwriter Jay Anthony Willis and singer Jill Younghusband formed a partnership with Captain Brian Greenwood and the Royal Canadian Artillery Band to create a musical poppy, "Proud Canadian Soldier", to commemorate Canada’s Year of the Veteran.
