They were a hit at the Kaslo Jazz Fest in 04, where they played as a duo and shared the bill with Juno award winners Colin James and Jeff Healey, The Brubreck Brothers and Ruthie Foster and were also the opening guests for the legendary songwriter, session man, producer, piano man, Leon Russell the same year.

They played the Whatshan Lake Music Festival with BCCMA award winners, the Cruzero’s and virtuoso finger style guitarist, Rick Bockner in the summer of 05. In October they released “Big Wind on the Way”, their 1st CD of original material. The album saw airplay and chart action on radio stations across the country and world wide on the Sirius satellite network and selected tracks continue to receive regular airplay today on stations, including CBC Radio.

In 06 they returned to the Kaslo Jazz Fest, this time with a full band, headlining the Up Stage and rockin’ the record breaking crowd into the evening. Also on the bill were Maple Blues award winner, Paul Reddick, Juno award winner, Harry Manx, and Ray Charles former sax man, Fathead Newman. 2006 also saw them return to the Whatshan Lake Fest which, that year, also featured singer, songwriter, actor and activist, Tom Jackson.

The summer of 07 was a busy one and they toured all over British Columbia, playing on shows with Coco love Alcorn, Ember Swift, Roy Forbes and blues man David Gogo, while the following year saw them doing two shows with young, Toronto blues prodigy, Jimmy Bowskill as well as touring throughout BC and Alberta and headlining an international music festival.

In 09, they took a well deserved break form touring, except for two festivals, and only did a few local shows; concentrating on writing songs for their next album release.

Holly and Jon began pre production on their new album in the spring of 2010. Recording for the album began in June and they played a festival in Alberta that also included artists such as The Trews and bluesmen, Jim Byrnes and Steve Dawson. Jon played shows with Texas, blues legend, Sonny Rhodes, North American troubadour, Doug Macleod and headlined a festival in BC playing guitar for the Canadian Goddess of the blues, Rita Chiarelli. This festival also featured Maria Muldaur, David Gogo, Alfie Zappacosta and Barney Bentall.

They are currently in the process of mixing their 2nd record, which is an all acoustic blues album, due to be released this fall.

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Holly is a natural singer. She was born with the music in her. She has an innate sense of melody, form and rhythm, especially for the blues. You only need listen to her sing to realize she has a feel for blues way beyond her years. She is a proficient jazz, traditional country and contemporary folk stylist, but the blues is where she really shines. You can tell it is at the root of all she sings and what better place to come from than the root of all modern music.

Holly actually began singing and composing blues based melodies at the age of five and got her start in the entertainment business at the tender age of nine as a special guest vocalist on some of her dad, Jon’s, solo shows. She began playing bass in elementary school, played bass and sang in various jazz combo's and sang jazz, swing and blues fronting a big band in high school. Holly studied voice for two years with jazz/blues vocal instructor, Laura Landsberg after winning a vocal scholarship. She later enrolled in a post secondary music program where she continued to study voice under the tutelage of Cheryl Hodge and majored in performance and voice. During this time she was involved with the “Music Feeds” project and toured with an ensemble that paid tribute to Canadian music from the 60’s to the present day, played a nationally televised concert and appeared on stage with Jazz greats, The Brubreck Brothers (sons of the legendary, Dave Brubreck. “Take Five”) and with the amazing young American jazz pianist, Taylor Eigisti.

While still in high school Holly performed at the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival in the US - which featured the world’s greatest bass player, Brian Bromberg – and opened for jazz/blues virtuoso, Carlos Del Junco (multiple Maple Blues Award winner) in Canada. Since then, she has appeared on stage with artists as diverse as bass playing virtuoso, Russell Jackson (Matt “Guitar Murphy”, Charlie Musselwhite) at the Calgary Stampede 2003 and alt/country singer/songwriter, Linda McCrea (Spirit Of The West) in 2004. Holly and Linda performed a very moving version of John Prine’s, “Angel From Montgomery” which brought the house down. Holly also helped promote Merle Haggard’s 2004 Canadian Tour which featured special guests, Blackie and The Rodeo Kings (Colin Linden, Stephen Fearing and Tom Wilson).

Although the blues provide the building blocks for her vocal approach, you can tell she has listened to and studied vocal techniques of singers in other genres of music, especially jazz. You can hear hints of Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington and more contemporary artist’s such as Bonnie Raitt, Eva Cassidy and Susan Tedeschi. A good example of Holly’s vocal style can be heard on the song 'Train Wreck Blues' from Holly and Jon’s 'Big Wind on the Way' album. This successful combining of blues feel with jazz phrasing is what Holly is all about and forms the basis for her unquestionable talent.

Holly’s voice has been described as “soaring from deep inside the well of Aretha Franklin and Eva Cassidy”
“Holly is one of the most promising young female emerging blues singers on the scene today and can look forward to a long and rewarding career in the music industry”.

Jon has been involved in performing and entertaining from an early age. The first nine years of his life were spent in England, where he often entertained crowds singing at community concerts that were organized by his grandmother. She was an accomplished musician who taught piano and accordion and had played violin in an orchestra that provided the musical sound track for silent films. In fact, it was his grandmother, who bought him his first guitar and showed him his first simple chords.

Jon always had a guitar around but didn’t concentrate on it until after his family moved to Canada, in the sixties. “I remember looking at the guitar leaning up against the wall when I was 17 and thinking ’I’m gonna’ learn to play that thing”. Many hours were spent up in his bedroom, wood shedding.

There were three distinct pivotal points in Jon’s musical ambitions. The first was seeing Texas blues man, Freddie King perform. “Up to that point I had been playing and listening to bands like C.C.R. and The Stones. After seeing Freddie, who was opening for Grand Funk, playing, singing and sweating, the soul oozing out of the man, I realized that I had just seen the real thing and that all the other music I had been listening to up to that point was kind of irrelevant. It was a revelation. I couldn’t even watch the headliners after seeing Freddie. I had just seen the master; the students were pale in comparison. It was then that I realized that I wanted to play music for the rest of my life and make a career out of it”. The second was attending a concert by Willie Dixon and the Chicago All-stars with Big Walter Horton on harmonica, and meeting them after the show. Jon asked them if they were interested in attending a party and maybe doing some jamming. Big Walter took a shot out of his Mickey of Canadian Club and said “the only place we be jamming is on down the road”. They were headed out that night to do a show somewhere out east the following night. “These guys were real musicians and the only thing that mattered was getting to the next gig. That left an impression on me”. Then there was the Joe Cocker concert in Edmonton in the mid 70’s. “Cornell Dupree was the guitar player and they played a long opening set before Joe came out. Cornell just sat on top of his small Fender amp, as casual as you please, and played the most incredible blues guitar. That showed me that you don’t need smoke and lights to put on a show; you just have to be good”.

Since then, Jon has appeared on shows with Spirit Of The West, Skydiggers, Juno award winning root’s rocker (and friend of Bob Dylan), Paul James and Juno award winning blues guitarist Johnny V. He has played with Grammy award winning Texas blues man, Donald Ray Johnson and Canadian rock legend, Kelly Jay (formerly of Crowbar-“Ooh what a feeling”). More recently, he has played with Texas blues man, Sonny Rhodes, songwriter/bluesman, Doug Macleod and Canadian Goddess of the blues, Rita Chiarelli.

Jon has logged many miles playing music since the early 70’s and by his own estimation has run at least a dozen vehicles into the ground, traveling up and down the highway in pursuit of the next gig.

A more than adequate blues guitarist, Jon can also pick some great country licks. Check out 'Cowboy Angel' on Holly and Jon’s CD - Big Wind on the Way. This is pure, traditional country pickin'.