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Dr Keith Harthorn-Walton

Dr. Keith Hartshorn-Walton specialises in jazz tuba, sousaphone, electric and acoustic Bass, piano and organ. Keith has a low-brass studio at Carleton University, and conducts the Carleton Brass Ensemble. Originally from Winnipeg, Keith toured extensively with the Foothills Brass Quintet. He has performed with Clark Terry, Louis Bellson, Quinsin Nachoff, as well as orchestras in Edmonton, Calgary, Oshawa, Ottawa and Kingston.

In September 2019 Keith was invited to participate in the tribute concert to his mentor, jazz tuba legend Howard Johnson, in New York City, where he had the immense privilege of performing with the original members of Johnson's seminal jazz tuba ensemble, Gravity. In 2023, Keith performed as a guest alongside Joseph Daley’s Tuba Trio along with Scott Robinson and Warren Smith in Buffalo, and in 2024 was invited to play in Daley’s True Unity Bass Association large tuba ensemble to premier works for his 75th birthday concert in Brooklyn, NY.

Since the summer of 2020, he has been part of Tubari. a trio with Erik Lawrence on baritone sax and Bram Kincheloe on drums. Inspired by Howard Johnson, via whom they met, the trio were featured performers at the 2022 Virtual Tuba and Euphonium Conference hosted by ITEA, and performed to a full house at the Ottawa Jazz Festival June 23rd. Their debut self-titled CD was launched on June 21st of this year and is available on most streaming platforms and for purchase on Band Camp. Tubari was a recent invite to play at the renowned Bop Shop Records concert series in Rochester, NY.

Craig Kennedy

Craig has toured the country extensively as a vocalist/guitarist in the RCMP Concert Band, and as the banjo player in The

NorthWest Mounted Strolling Dixieland Band. He has also served in the community for many years as a member of the

Stevens & Kennedy Band, Orpheus Musical Theatre, and Dr. Jazz.

Craig received his Bachelor of Education from Queen’s University in Kingston, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music from

Concordia University in Montreal, Certification from the Ministry of Education in Ontario as a teacher, and is a recent graduate of the Protocol School of Washington.

Peter Gemmell

After completing music studies in Montreal, Reedman Pete Gemmell travelled the globe, blowing his horns wherever he went. His first stop was Europe, and he spent time busking in France and Switzerland. The next 20 years Peter was working the cruise ships including the major names like Carnival Cruise Lines.Since arriving in Ottawa he has been making music with such diverse groups as Big Band Ottawa, National Capital Concert Band, Funktion, Ottawa Wind Ensemble, Rideau Lakes Orchestra, Afro-Colombian Jazz Orchestra, Tom Allen's "From Weimar to Vaudeville", Original Trillium Jazz Band, Alternate Takes and now the Apex Jazz Band

John Mitchell

John’s interest in the cornet, and Dixieland music started at an early age. He played trumpet/cornet in the school band in Deep River, which was followed by a career as a sales representative for a high tech company (Hewlett-Packard/Agilent) until retirement in 2002. After retirement, there was time for more music, with participation in various Ottawa groups including Manotick Brass, Grey Jazz Big Band, Trillium Dixieland, HOT SPUD Dixieland, Main and Abott Big Band, Rideau River Ramblers, and more recently the Jock River Jazz group.

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