Tag: Music

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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Local broadcast pioneer; internationally-known banjo player and accomplished 12-string jazz guitar player; music, drama and comedy producer/Program Director CJOR Vancouver 1930s; TV production trainee New York University late 1940s; performer Burns Chuckwagon From the Stampede Corral CBC-TV Network/CBUT Vancouver 1954-55; documentary producer CBUT and CHAN-TV Vancouver 1950s on.  Died in West Vancouver November 10, 2000…
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Tom Northcott (born in Vancouver, August 29, 1943) is a Canadian folk-rock singer with hits in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was nominated as best male vocalist for a Juno Award in 1971. Later he co-founded Mushroom Studios in Vancouver and produced records. He once stood for public office, unsuccessfully, for the Social Credit…
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Guitar and vocal performer at age 10 The Children’s Hour, Bill Rea’s Roundup, Ranger’s Cabin CKNW New Westminster beginning in 1944; accomplished steel guitarist playing on TV and radio with Jack Jenson and the Rhythm Pals 1950s; assistant record librarian/control room/sportscast operator/all-night DJ and later commercial sales CKNW 1945-64; general sales manager CJOR Vancouver 1965;…
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