Tag: Music

Charlene started her musical theatre career as a teenager with Theatre Under the Stars where she won the E.V. Young Memorial Scholarship for “Most Promising Performer.” While performing in a revue in Montreal, Hugh Pickett brought her back to the Vancouver International Festival to be featured in West Side Story. She then went on to tour West…
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Charles Leon Arthello Bibb was born in Louisville, KY in 1922. Leon studied classical singing in New York City, and made his first theatre appearance, as a waiter, in the original production of Annie Get Your Gun (1946), starring Ethel Merman; he was heard and credited on the 1946 cast recording of the show. Bibb later turned toward folk music,…
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Douglas Bennett was born on October 31st 1951, in Toronto, Ontario. He formed Doug and the Slugs in Vancouver in 1977; the band originally consisted of Doug with John Burton (guitar), Drew Neville (keyboards), Dennis Henderson (bass) and Lawrence McGillveray (drums). They began by promoting their own shows and developed an avid following with outrageous ‘theme nights’. In 1978 the band…
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Website Hal Fox Beckett is an award-winning composer, conductor and music producer who over the last three decades has established himself as one of Western Canada’s most respected musicians. A longtime resident of Vancouver, he has composed music for operatic and symphonic ensembles, film, tv, and multi-media projects; he is also the Music Director for…
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Michael Conway Baker was born in West Palm Beach, Florida, on March 13, 1937. The son of vaudeville and radio comedian Phil Baker, he showed great aptitude for music from an early age. In 1958, after high school graduation, Baker moved to Vancouver, his mother ‘s native city. He passed the external examinations of the London College of Music,…
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