Lester Quitzau in Concert with Farley Scott

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Friday, April 24th, 2015
7:30 PM

Lester Quitzau was born in 1964 and he was raised in the working class part of Edmonton. It was a rapidly growing town at the time and a place with lots of blue collar soul. People had a big heart for music, the theater and art in general. Thankfully, a guitar was part of the Quitzau household and Lester gets his first electric at the age of fifteen. Shortly afterwards there’s a garage band at work and the blues virus hits Lester with the sounds of John Lee Hooker and the Chicago Blues masters of the 50s. It’s a mind-altering process that other white boys from Canada go through, too: David Wilcox, the Downchild Blues Band, Dutch Mason...

Lester Quitzau starts his dues-paying years early. His wild years are spent on the North Side of town with hard-drinking bar bands like the Slippin’ Lizards and the Yard Dogs. They are good bands but they party hard. Lester is lucky. Bass player Farley Scott becomes his mentor and Farley is a bit more evolved as a person. He teaches Lester about taste, the essentials of the music, the tricks of the trade and how to stay healthy. After half a decade as a"Yard Dog”, Quitzau moves to British Columbia in 1993. This is hippie country and a well-needed change to the rougher social climate of Edmonton. It’s here the first Quitzau album KEEP ON WALKING is being recorded. The album introduces a real songwriting talent, great guitar work and a new blues voice open for discovery. Lester Quitzau moves on quickly. Album No. 2 ("A BIG LOVE”) – is much more electric, eclectic and well-produced.
 
Lester Quitzau is a bluesman, indeed, and SO HERE WE ARE speaks volumes in this regard. "I’ve always liked the honesty of the blues,” he says, "but for me, it’s important to be about what’s going on now, not some museum piece.” The Canadian and US folk and roots music scene provided lots of work in the following years. The folk/roots, world music and blues genres move closer together all the time and a developing network of festivals and clubs generates a scene with lots of gigs and musical encounters with greats like Charles Brown, John Hammond, David Lindley, Martin Simpson and Los Lobos..
 
Farley Scott

Farley has been playing the bass ever since he was a teenage kid. He moved to Edmonton, Alberta to attend the relatively new music program at Grant McKewan college where he discovered jazz music and developed a love of the acoustic bass and improvisation.

After a few years at college, combined with work with many different combinations of bands, (everything from polka bands, country bands, rock and roll bands, jazz bands) he lived a page of rock and roll history while performing with k.d. lang as the original bassist for The Reclines.

This began a long sojourn into the world of roots related music where he has had the good fortune to work as accompanist for many local, national and international performers.

Farley now currently works in Edmonton, as an acoustic bassist,  with Projects such as: The Road to Django Collective, Jazz Passages Trio, The Blue Chair House Band, Ellen McIllwayne, Jamie Philp Trio, Christine Hansen, Kat Danser and with long time friend and collaborator Lester Quitzau.

As always, refreshments will be available!
Donation $15.00 per person. Paid Reservations required.