Venues List

Event

Title:: Jeffery Straker
When:: Sun, Oct 18
Where:: Old Firehall - Lethbridge
Category:: Pop

Description

Time: 3 p.m.

Cover: $5

Jeff Straker www.myspace.com/jefferystraker or www.jeffstraker.com

NEW NEWS
Top 10 Video on Much More Music Canada (Apr/May 09)
Regional winner, Canadian radiostar songwriting competition (Jan 09)
2008 Toronto Independent Music Award nomination – Best Pop Album
Opened for MEL C (Spice Girls) – TORONTO (summer ’08)
Number 11 on Toronto's Proud fm Top 20 chart (summer ’08)
A guy from the sweeping prairies of Canada, who was born under a piano, and hasn't crawled away from one since. He spends a lot of his time between Toronto and Regina but mostly under pianos there as well. A recent listener did a great job of capturing Jeffery's sound with this phrase:
"it's like the offspring of Elton John and Rufus Wainwright meeting the offspring of Ben Folds and Freddie Mercury in a cabaret”

There you have it - if you put all of them in a blender and hit puree you'd hear what we're talking about. His piano playing draws from many styles including rock, pop & cabaret and blends in his distinct tenor voice. His range runs from the highest falsettos to deep rumbling bass notes and is delivered with lively stage flair.

Musically, Jeffery is an actual descendant of both Beethoven and Chopin (see his website for the full true story!) and the piano-man recently released his new chamber-pop album "Step Right Up" produced by Justin Gray (LA/Toronto). He's now on the road with his unique brand of piano-vocal music and people are taking note of his tunes.