No Horses Music Festival

11th annual No Horses Music Festival

Saturday September 27th

8p.m. 1st set

Russell Sholberg- Acoustic Bass, Tony Wilson – Guitar, Peggy Lee- Cello

2nd set

Scott Smith’s Adventures in Steel

Scott Smith – Pedal Steel Guitar, Paul Pigat-Guitar, Joseph Lubinsky- Bass, Damien Graham- Drums

Sunday September 28th

8 p.m. 1st set

Russell Sholberg-Acoustic Bass, Sharon Minemoto- Piano, Tony Wilson-Guitar

2nd set

Itamar Erez Trio

Itamar Erez- Piano, Guitar, Dan Howard -Acoustic Bass, Karl Dejong -Drums

Evening shows $20 or barter or pay what you can.

Sponsors:  HICEEC, Coop, B.C. Ferries, Hornby Arts, Hornby Festival Society

MORE ABOUT THE MUSICIANS:

Scott Smith’s Adventures in Steel

Born of Scott Smith’s popular monthly show at Vancouver venues The Heatley and The Painted Ship, Adventures in Pedal Steel spotlights the instrument in all kinds of genres, from country, soul, indie-folk, and gospel, to wherever its beautifully arcing, aching shimmer can be found..

Peggy Lee

Cellist Peggy Lee is an internationally respected artist who has collaborated with musicians from around the world. She is the leader of The Peggy Lee Band, Film in Music, waxwing with Tony Wilson and Jon Bentley and Beautiful Tool, to name a few of the many projects she has been involved with.

Sharon Minemoto

Since the age of sixteen Vancouver based pianist Sharon has been performing to audiences around the world. Sharon’s groups have been featured at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, The Vernon Jazz Club, The Okanagan Jazz and Blues Society, The Powell Street Festival, The Hornby Island Arts Festival, Festival Vancouver, The Beatniq Jazz Club in Calgary, The Yardbird Suite Jazz Club in Edmonton, the Jazz On The Wing series in Whitehorse, YT and at Club JZ in China.

Itamar Erez

Itamar is truly an international artist. In recent years he has performed in Canada,, U.S.A , Germany ,The Netherlands, Austria, Israel, Columbia and several other destinations, He has performed at many prestige’s venues such as Carnegie Hall in N.Y City. He has released six albums of his music which draws on diverse cultural influences.

Russell Sholberg

As a member of the ensemble Pugs and Crows bassist Russell Sholberg won a Juno award in 2018.he is a frequent collaborator with guitarist Tony Wilson. Russell covers a vast array of genres in the many projects he is involved with, from Bluegrass to Free improvisation.

Tony Wilson

Guitarist composer Wilson has been performing for the last forty years . In that time he has had the good fortune to share the stage with with many Canadians and International artists as well well as performing in Eastern and Western Europe, Canada and the United States. he has released eight cd’s of his music and has been commissioned by many ensembles.

A note from Tony:

This is year eleven of the no horses festival. In that time we have presented sixty different ensembles. My main reason for starting the Festival was I wanted the Hornby community to hear great artists who would be unlikely make it to Hornby otherwise. I would like to thanks the community for the support it has help made this happen. I came to Hornby in 1978 and it has been my home since except for ten years in Vancouver. It has been my privilege to present all the artists whether they are friends or people i have played with over the years. They have to a person enjoyed the experience of coming here and performing at our beautiful hall.