Logan grew up traveling the world and absorbing the sounds of many cultures.  His passion for music began with his self-taught piano studies of swing jazz and the blues, inspired by recordings of Ellington and Oscar Peterson.  He went on to study orchestral trumpet at the University of British Columbia, completing his master’s degree in 2014.  He has performed with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Kamloops Symphony Orchestra, Westben Festival Orchestra, Vancouver Brass Project, and Qatar Philharmonic Brass Ensemble. During all this, Logan continued to study piano, seeking lessons from local jazz masters throughout his travels. He also absorbed important lessons about music and life while living in Western New York and working with Musician's Wellness of North America. Since moving to the Yukon, he has led various musical undertakings including The BLANK Project, a month of multi-disciplinary collaborations with improvised music, and Muster Point, a new collective playing jazz-infused instrumental music.

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Renn was trained in piano from the age of four, under the tutelage of Jocelyn Savage (piano), and in voice from the age of fourteen with Elaine Case, and later with Dr. Reid Spencer (voice). Renn also explored percussion, clarinet, saxophone, ukulele, and guitar in junior and high school band and private lesson settings. She performed regularly across her home province of Alberta with a variety of bands, festivals, and theatre companies. Renn is well versed in classical music, musical theatre, and contemporary commercial music (CCM), and thrives on the diverse nature of her students’ interests.

Renn holds a Bachelor of Music, majoring in Vocal Performance. She received her Associate’s Degree from Mount Royal University before transferring to the University of Victoria, where she worked with a number of incredible educators, coaches, choirs and vocal jazz ensembles. An ardent lifelong learner, she has continued her professional development with many tremendous educators across the globe. Renn has completed Levels I, II, and III through the LoVetri Institute for Somatic Voicework™ (via Baldwin Wallace University), which explores an organized method of vocal training for contemporary commercial music (CCM) styles, based upon somatic (physical) awareness and aural discernment. She has trained in the Feldenkrais Method®, and has studied with Dr. Shannon Coates (The Vocal Instrument 101).

Renn is a member of the Somatic Voicework™ Teachers Association, NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing), and is a registered teacher with the Royal Conservatory of Music.

An active performing and recording musician and composer, Renn has contributed to artistic endeavours worldwide. Renn’s folk-rock project Fox Glove has released three albums and performs in festivals and concerts nation-wide. She performs regularly as a soloist and collaborates extensively with other artists. She can be heard on recordings with outfits such as Astrocolor, Carmanah, and Alan Doyle of Great Big Sea.

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Lianne Cranfield has been singing since age 3 and has performed thousands of shows. She has played in pubs and cafes, on big stages, at festivals, large private events and most notably, played while touring for an extended period of travel in New Zealand and Australia.  Upon her return to Canada, she conducted research on music’s effects on the developing brain as a component of her Masters of Education.

 She came to the Yukon in 2012 where she became a mother and a counsellor at a local highschool. During this time, Lianne offered a children’s music program, Musical Minds Yukon, and continued to develop her vocal coaching and art therapy program, Find Your Voice. 

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Born and raised in Whitehorse Yukon, AV tech, Bass player and composer Etienne had an interest in music at an early age and decided to pick up the electric bass at the age of 16. It wasn't long after that he was completely immersed, being a founding member of Whitehorse acts, Pro-Decibel and Hammerhead and also gigging with heavy metal act Nemesis throughout the two thousands.
Etienne studied Bass guitar, sound engineering and performance at  the Contemporary Music and Technologies Program at Selkirk College in Nelson B.C. There he regularly gigged with Hammerhead and played in numerous projects, he also was a founding member of Alone Against Rome a heavy metal act that would go on to tour Canada.
After living in Montreal and Halifax respectively and touring the east coast of canada with Halifax Based band The Wax, he returned to the Yukon in 2014 with the intention of founding a funk dance band: Major Funk and the Employment, now shortened to Major Funk. He has since been doing live audio teching and home music recording and production. when he is not writing new material or playing shows with Major Funk .
Étienne is involved in every aspect of the sound industry in the Yukon. Including corporate events, live streams,  radio, film and television, as well as music festivals and a multitude of other events.
In addition to doing sound, he also is well versed in live visual setups for large and small events.
Étienne's most recent projects have been focused on post mixing audio for film and television, further diversifying his skill sets.
A northerner at heart, Étienne continues being a mainstay of the Yukon's live events, both on the stage and behind the soundboard.

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Born and raised in Whitehorse, Yukon, by two professional musicians, Sarah was surrounded by Old-time, bluegrass, ragtime and swing music from an early age. Sarah has toured nationally and internationally with The Done Gone Stringband (YT), Annie Lou Band (BC), Combo Royal (ON) and many others, and plays locally with her family’s western swing band The Swingin' Pines and her touring project bluegrass project Happy Trails, Prospector. Her passion for American music has pulled her around the states to study, observe, and participate in some of the finest Appalachian, Cajun and Swing music the vast country has to offer.

Sarah is extremely passionate about teaching fiddle, singing, music theory and  community dance she has been teaching music for over 15 years.

She has experience teaching children and adults privately, and at music camps across Canada including NimbleFingers (BC), Northern Lights Bluegrass and Oldtime (SK), Kluane Mountain Bluegrass Festival and Yukon Summer Music Camp. Sarah has also worked as the Artistic Director and Instructor for the Fiddleheads, a long running yukon youth fiddle ensemble and non profit.

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Wesley Hardisty is an acclaimed fiddler, guitarist, singer, and composer from the Dene First Nation in Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories. Blending Métis and Indigenous traditions with rock, folk, country, and Celtic influences, his music is heartfelt, soulful, and deeply moving. A largely self-taught musician, Wesley began playing the fiddle at age thirteen through the Kole Crook Fiddle Association and later trained at the Gulf Islands School of Performing Arts.

He has performed across Canada and internationally—from the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics to Canada Scene and Northern Scene in Ottawa, and at festivals from Seattle to Iqaluit. His debut album 12:12 won the 2012 Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Award for Best Fiddle CD, and he has since released multiple original albums and commissioned works.

Wesley deeply values community connections and has made it a priority to perform for Elders and support intergenerational musical exchange. He has returned to the Kole Crook Fiddle Association as an instructor and mentor, guiding youth through the very programs that once nurtured his own path. Wesley has collaborated with singer-songwriters, classical ensembles, and fiddle communities alike, and formerly served as an Artistic Ambassador for the Downie-Wenjack Fund. He brings warmth, depth, and extraordinary musicality to every performance and class he leads.

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I'm Matthew Lien, a songwriter, performer, engineer and producer based
in the Yukon, with 25 self-titled studio albums released to date.

My first album Bleeding Wolves took off in Asia where it became an
industry legend. I've since become the first foreigner to win Asia’s
Grammy-equivalent, and my work in television and radio has earned Asia’s
Emmy-equivalent.

My concerts have attracted audiences of 30,000, and my collaborative
efforts to promote Indigenous and traditional culture have earned the
appointment of Cultural Ambassador by Taiwan's government, and Man of
the Year by Esquire magazine.

Here in Canada, I’ve won (and was twice nominated for) the Western
Canada Music Award, have received the Parliamentary Certificate of
Honour, and was appointed Special Envoy to Taiwan in recognition of my
success overseas. My research into immersive recording technology has
won the Yukon University’s Innovation Prize, the National Research
Council’s IRAP Grant, and has been published by the Audio Engineering
Society (AES).

I look forward to focusing my experience on my students in this year's
YSMC “Write a Song; Produce a Demo” class, and to creating some
inspiring new music together!

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Elayne was born in Dublin, Ireland. During her early school years, Gaelic and Harp were mandatory subjects along with the choice of Irish Step Dancing or the Irish Pipes. She studied all four until she passed her A-levels in England. Then, for a change of scene, she moved to Virginia in the USA where she completed two degrees along with an Associate in Music.

After university, her friends and teachers from Ireland, the United States and Canada all encouraged her to revisit the harp. Elayne has taught Royal Conservatory piano and theory in Whitehorse for the past thirteen years, and harp for the last seven. “Caol lorg duilleoga ar geroi egus cinamada" “Music leaves footprints on our hearts and souls.

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Andrew Scott is a musician, educator and father based in Beaumont, Alberta. He currently teaches Elementary Music at Robina Baker Elementary in Devon, Alberta and is super excited to be headed north to spend time with the Yukon students!

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Julie Scott is an energetic performer, director and teacher in the Edmonton area. She has a love for all that is music, especially Percussion!  Julie studied under the direction of Adam Mason at the University of Lethbridge, focusing on African, Samba, Taiko, Steel Drumming and Conducting while pursuing her Bachelor of Music and Education. After convocation, she spent a year studying Taiko Drumming with Isshin Taiko Ensemble in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan and performing at various music festivals with her husband Andrew Scott.

As an Educator, Julie’s favourite thing is working with new groups in new communities. Whether you’re brand new to music, returning after a long hiatus, trying out a secondary instrument, or are a long time committed player looking to perfect a few things, Julie’s fun and engaging approach to learning will leave you feeling challenged and accomplished!

Julie spends her days teaching Concert Band, Jazz Band and Drumline at Louis St Laurent School, her evenings with her family, and Wednesday nights conducting the Black Gold Community Band in Leduc.

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Andy Slade - Hailing from the Cowichan valley on beautiful Vancouver Island, BC, Andy Slade is a force on the piano. With a Bachelor’s degree in classical music from the University of Victoria and a Masters of Music in jazz from the University of Toronto, he is quickly becoming well known on the Toronto music scene. As a performer, Andy has worked in nearly every style of music, playing in Pop, Hip-hop, Orchestral, Funk, Choral, Folk, and Jazz projects across Canada the U.S. and China. Andy has been on faculty at the Victoria Conservatory of Music where he taught jazz piano at the post-secondary level, as well as working with the undergrad ensembles at the University of Toronto as part of his Master’s degree. He is a passionate educator and is dedicated to sharing his love of music with his students.

Andy's website link here: http://andrewslade.ca/

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Ellen Thompson was born and raised in Whitehorse, Yukon. She holds an ARCT in Piano Performance and Level 9 Voice from the Royal Conservatory of Music. She is actively pursuing ongoing Orff Schulwerk training and has completed her Level 1 certification through Vancouver Community College and the BC Orff Chapter.

With over 10 years of teaching experience, Ellen runs a full studio with a focus on piano and early childhood music. Since 2017, she has been leading early childhood music and movement classes at the Heart of Riverdale. She believes deeply in the importance of integrating music into a child’s life—not only for the joy it brings, but for its role in supporting emotional expression, problem-solving, and motor skill development.

Ellen’s own musical journey began in 2000 at the Yukon Summer Music Camp, and she is thrilled to now be teaching those very same classes that first inspired her. 

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