Carolyn Fe (Voice)

Singer, lyric writer, sometimes manager and sometimes booker. Carolyn has a foot in both artistic and business worlds. She’s a Type-A personality, always thinking of what is next, opening doors and if such doors don’t open, creating opportunities so the band can keep moving forward. Although she’s up front on stage, she prefers the one-on-one contact when off stage. Believe it or not, she is kind of shy but does what has to be done to make things happen.

Paul Shrofel (Piano)

Paul is a prolific artist, with the ability to write in a variety of different styles. “Keep a Modest Head” a short film by Deco Dawson featured Paul’s full score and won best short at 2012‘s TIFF. His score and audio work for the web based film series “Inside Hana’s Suitcase” was nominated for a digital Emmy award. Other original pieces have been featured at the number one position on the iTunes charts and have won several awards including a 2007 Juno award for “Make Someone Happy” by Sophie Milman, on which Paul contributed both his playing and an original tune entitled “So Long, You Fool”. Paul has toured internationally playing in some of the world’s premier venues such as Jazz at Lincoln Center (NYC), Blue Note (NYC, Japan), the Hollywood Bowl (CA), and Massey Hall (ON). He has opened for, and shared the stage with notable musicians such as Kurt Elling, Chick Corea, Gary Burton, Chris Botti, Jesse Cook, Wynton Marsalis, Guido Basso, and Randy Bachman.

Al McLean (Saxophone)

Al is a sought-after saxophone specialist, and professor of music at McGill University. Al McLean has performed and recorded worldwide with countless artists of every style of music, including Jimmy Cobb, The Temptations, Susan Anton, Jon Bowzer, Offenbach, Herb Ried, Boule Noir, Susie Arioli, Lenny White, Tyler Mitchell, Gary Smulyan, Gene Perla, Azar Lawrence, George Garzone, Jerry Bergonzi, Seamus Blake, Steve Turre, Benito Gonzales, and Slide Hampton. His improvisations have been described as “a fluid, masterful account of the entire lineage of the saxophone”.

Alain Bourgeois (Drums)

Alain began his professional career at the age of 13 as the youngest member of Moncton based jazz-fusion quintet “Feu Vert” whose two albums gained public recognition and praise from the artistic community. The group received two nominations at the Éloizes Awards Gala, winning the 2001 Discovery of the Year Award. He takes part in a large variety of projects among established greats as well as up and coming talents: Susie Arioli, Vic Vogel, Andy King Group, Parc-X Trio, Charles Trudel, Montreal Hard Bop Five, Rachel Therrien, Mario Allard, Sam Blais, Fred Pauze, Simon Legault, Ivan Garzon, Marie-Claire Durand and Ben Deschamps. His evolution within these many groups has led him to the stages of international jazz festivals (Bremen, Mexico, Havana, Montreal, Quebec and Rimouski) and has earned him many awards : 2007 Jazz en Rafale; 2008 Radio-Canada Galaxy Award; 2009 Yamaha Rising Star Showcase of the Montreal Drum Fest; and, more recently, winner of the 2015 TD Grand Jazz Award.

Simon Pagé (Bass)

Simon has been playing electric bass and upright bass for more than 20 years, along with a strong interest for every instrument he has the chance to try. Simon is part of many different bands performing in many different styles, such as jazz, african music, funk/soul, cuban music, brasilian music, flamenco, pop music. In addition, his Gypsy Swing group has had success at Montreal Jazz Festival and launched its second album in October as part of the Off Jazz Festival. Simon is first and foremost a friend of musicians, he is quite involved in the music community and is involved in numerous projects with a goal to keep live music thriving. He is greatly appreciated in the professional music scene, and he also puts a lot of time to help the artistic community in finding solutions to the many problems artists have to deal with.