Huge Cap Jazz Presence at 2015 Vancouver Jazz Festival

The Vancouver International Jazz Festival is one of the largest and most important events of its kind on the planet.  I really look forward to hearing music and performing each year. In addition to bringing in top jazz artists from around the globe, the festival always does a great job of showcasing musicians and bands from the Vancouver scene and Cap graduates and faculty are always a central part of that scene.  I spent some time this morning highlighting cap students, alumni, and faculty members in my festival program.

Some rough and ready stats:

58 events at the Festival will features Cap alumni, students or faculty.
38 Cap alums or current students will perform
15 faculty members will perform

Here is a list  (apologies if I missed anyone - the program listing don't always have all personnel for bands.)

Cap Alumni (38)

Arai, Bernie

Arntzen, Evan

Bentley, Jon

Blake, David

Conlinn, Juhli

Cox, Ian

Cronin, Sean

Davidovici, Eli

Dhillon, Neelamjit

Gaucher, Dan

Grdina, Gordon

Gubbels, Brent

Hodge, Jennifer

Luykx, Sandra Mae

Maskell, Colin

Meger, James

Minckler, Wynston

Minemoto, Sharon

Naso, Kristian

Northgraves, Bonnie

Pemberton, Dawn

Rushka, Paul

Saunier, Elea

Schmidt, Cole

Scott, Shannon

Sholberg, Russell

Sikula, David

Skonberg, Bria

Taylor, Dave
Thomas, Adam

Thue, Shannon

Toren, Cat

Tucker, Scott

Wagler, Michael

Weeds, Cory

Youngash, Gavin

Younger, Jeff

Faculty (15)

Allen, Mike

Burrows, Jared

Esson, Dennis

Hammet-Vaughn, Kate

Kaldestad, Steve

Korsrud, John

Lachance, Andre

Maddock, Steve

Makela, Chad

Mollerup, Laurence

Radtke, Darren

Robbins, Dave

Samworth, Ron

Turner, Brad

Vanderschyff, Dylan