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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. As well as performing, Peter works as a recording engineer, for which he won a Juno award for Classical Album of the Year for Soloist or Chamber for Angela Schwarzkopf's " Detach".
Multi-instrumentalist Keith Hartshorn-Walton relocated to Ottawa in 2015 and has established himself in the City's Jazz scene specialising in Tuba, Sousaphone, Electric and Acoustic Bass.
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 and Kingston. In the spring of 2018 he was part of Rob Frayne's Dreamband 3 with musicians from Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal.
In Ottawa he can be found in bands as diverse as The Bank Street Bonbons, Safe Low Limit (an all-bass clef jazz group), Linsey Wellman's Wedding and Funeral Trio, and particularly Mélanie E., a quartet featuring his wife Mélanie Hartshorn-Walton on French Jazz vocals.
As a bassist he has performed with the Beeched Wailers, Alex Moxon, Zakari Frantz, Peter Hum, Stephen Berndt and Steve Boudreau. Keith is also part of two monthly jazz series with Tariq Amery and Garrett Warner at Ottawa's Art House Café and also has hosted the monthly Jazz in Barrhaven series at Anabia Cupcakery.
In addition, Keith is music director and organist at Wall Street United Church in Brockville. He received his Doctorate of Music from McGill University in 2010, and has studied with Dennis Miller and Mark Tetreault, and McGill and the University of Toronto, respectively
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.
Craig has toured the country extensively as a vocalist/guitarist with the RCMP Concert Band. and as a soloist with the RCMP Northwest Mounted Strolling Dixieland Band. He also served in he community for many years as a member of the Stephens and 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 graduate of the Protocol School of Washington.
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