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Lucille Marie Raymonde Savoie was born in St Boniface, Manitoba, on May 13,1938. She was raised in Port Coquitlam and Coquitlam’s Francophone community of Maillardville in British Columbia, where she learned to play guitar, bass and mandolin. In her teens Lucille began her career by singing with the local French ensemble Les Hirondelles.

Jacques Singer (1910 -1980) was a Polish born American conductor.  Jacques was trained in the violin from an early age, and began to give concerts in Poland at age seven. In 1921 his family moved to the U.S, settling in Jersey City. He began attending the Juilliard School in 1927 graduating in 1930.  While at…
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Born in Vancouver in 1936 to parents from Tibet and India, Tab Shori, accompanied by his sister Smitra, played violin and guitar at an early age as ‘Bobby Soxers’ at local events. In his early 20’s, encouraged by watching the Ed Sullivan Talent Show, he became the lead guitarist for the “Hi-Fives” a well-known multi-racial…
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Alan Roughton was a big name in radio when radio was the only thing.  He studied singing as a boy and performed in London, England before he came to Canada in 1912.  In 1914, Alan enlisted in the Canadian Forces and went back to Europe with the 31st Battalion.  Twice wounded, he was commissioned in the…
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Born to a Canadian Serviceman from Texada Island and avisual artist from Nottingham, England, David Ross was aman of rare sensibilities. For 20 years, after graduating fromthe University of Victoria, he crossed Canada, teaching,acting, directing and producing theatre. In Newfoundland, heco-founded Rising Tide Theatre. As Artistic Producer ofWestern Canada Theatre in Kamloops from 1984 until…
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