Our major disappointment, as you all know, was having to postpone the KPMT Annual Jazz Fundraiser
on 24th September 2020 at the Old Mill Toronto due to the ongoing
Covid-19 restrictions. We immediately re-booked the Dining Room for
Thursday 23rd September 2021 and confirmed the date with the same
stellar line-up of musicians, namely from the USA: Warren Vaché, Harry
Allen, Ken Peplowski, Russ Phillips and Rossano Sportiello; and locally:
John MacLeod, Mike Murley, Reg Schwager, Neil Swainson and Terry
Clarke.
As a result, there was also no 2020 presentation of the Ken Page Lifetime Achievement Award.
As a result, there was also no 2020 presentation of the Ken Page Lifetime Achievement Award.
KPMT was unable to continue presenting its seasonal concert performances of Jim Galloway’s Wee Big Band in the elegant Great Hall of the Arts & Letters Club on Elm Street, where our previously announced March date was indefinitely postponed.
Plans are ongoing to keep Jim Galloway’s legacy alive with seasonal
concerts at our new venue. If you would be interested in sponsoring a
guest musician on a future occasion, please do let us know.
| NOTES ON PASSING: We sadly lost some close friends, musicians and long-time jazz supporters in 2020, among whom we would especially like to remember David McLaughlin, Norman Amadio, Esme Sawyer, Charles Atkins, Bucky Pizzarelli, Patricia Page and Michael Burke. |
