PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS
2009
w/ Tri-Continental
June 6 - ,Luminato Festival, Toronto.
The Lester Quitzau Trio
July 12 - 13 Harrison Festival of the Arts
July 17 - 19 Vancouver Folk Music Festival
Oct..29 - Nov .7 Western Canada tour
October 30 Live CBC Recording
2008:
March 28 - Lester Quitzau Trio (Mike Lent - bass, Sandro Dominelli - drums and guest Bob Tildesley - trumpet). Live CBC recording from the Yardbird Suite, Edmonton, Alberta
http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/cod/concerts/20080315quitz
2007:
CBC live Tri-Continental recording at the Arden Theatre, St Albert, Alberta, aired November 25
November 14 - 26, Tri-Continental Eastern Canada Tour
October 14 - November 4, Tri-Continental Western Canada Tour
June 26, Edmonton International Jazz Festival, with Madeleine Peyroux, Winspear Centre, Edmonton, Alberta
June 21 - 24, RedCedar Songwriter Camp, Pender Island
April 5 - May 7, Tri-Continental Spring tour, Germany - Austria
2006:
November 16-19, tour with Chris Frye & The Analogue Ghosts
October 27, with Mae Moore, The Horizon Stage, Spruce Grove, Alberta
August 26, slide guitar workshop, Long & McQuade, Victoria, BC
August 18-20, with Mae Moore, Summerfolk Festival, Owen Sound, Ontario
August 12, Nanaimo Blues Festival, Lester Quitzau Electric Trio, Harbourfront Plaza, Nanaimo, BC
July 1, Tri Continental, Canada Day Celebration, Cloverdale Fairgrounds, Surrey, BC
June 22, Red Cedar Songwriter Camp, Songwriters in the Round, Lester Quitzau, Mae Moore, Shari Ulrich & David Essig, Pender Island Community Hall, Pender Island, BC
June 9-10, with Bill Bourne, ROOTSWAY ROOTS'N'BLUES & FOOD FESTIVAL in Roccabianca, Parma, Italy
The One Yellow Rabbit Theatres' High Performance Rodeo with Peter Moller's 'Shrine of Impossible Love'
March 27 - with Cesaria Evora, The Alex Goolden Performance Hall, Victoria, BC
2005:
Bravo TV Special filming entitled 'Mae Moore and Lester Quitzau - In Their Own Back Yard'
Spring Italian tour with Mae Moore
Summer Tri-Continental tour - Switzerland, Austria and Germany
Alberta Scene showcase in Ottawa with Very Electric Trio, recorded by CBC for Saturday Night Blues
Blues in the Schools, Ottawa
Fall western Canadian tour with Mae Moore
November Canadian Tri-Continental tour - highlights
* The Capilano Theatre, Vancouver, BC
* The Jack Singer Concert Hall, Calgary, Alberta
* The Myer Horowitz Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta
* The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta
2004:
Taping of CBC Radio's "Atlantic Airwaves" with Mae Moore, Victoria-By-The-Sea, PEI
2003:
Winnipeg Folk Festival with Mae Moore
Jasper Folk Festival with Mae Moore
Jasper Folk Festival with The Very Electric Trio
Mission Folk Festival with Mae Moore
Czech Republic & German tour with Mae Moore
Taping of 'Madly Off In All Directions' for CBC Radio, Charlottetown
Winspear Centre, Edmonton, with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
2002:
Winspear Center, Edmonton, with Mae Moore, opening for Taj Mahal
Jack Singer Concert Hall, Calgary, with Mae Moore, opening for Taj Mahal
Tour of Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Italy and Austria with Tri-Continental, opening for Taj Mahal
Meisenfrei Radio, Bremen, Germany with the Very Electric Trio
Museumskeller, Fulda, Germany with the Very Electric Trio
Neue Welt Blues Festival, Ingolstadt, Germany with the Very Electric Trio
2001:
Quasimodo, Berlin, Germany with Tri-Continental and Mary Coughlin
Fabrik, Hamburg, Germany with Tri-Continental and Mary Coughlin
Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival with Tri-Continental
Canmore Folk Festival with Tri-Continental
Summerfolk, Owen Sound, ON with Tri-Continental
Saltspring Festival of the Arts with Tri-Continental
Islands Festival, Duncan BC with Tri-Continental
Calgary Folk Music Festival with Tri-Continental
Toronto Harbourfront Centre with Tri-Continental
Winnipeg Folk Music Festival with Tri-Continental
Vancouver Folk Music Festival with Tri-Continental
Montreal Jazz Festival with Tri-Continental
The Banff Centre for the Performing Arts, with The Very Electric Trio
North Country Fair, Jousard, Ab. with The Very Electric Trio
Live CBC recording with The Very Electric Trio for "Saturday Night Blues"
Quebec City, L' Autre with The Very Electric Trio
Montreal, Cafe Campus with The Very Electric Trio
"So Here We Are" CD Release Concerts - Myer Horowitz Theatre, Edmonton and The Night Gallery Cabaret, Calgary
2000:
Radio Bremen with Bill Bourne & Madagascar Slim
Switzerland & Germany Tour with Bill Bourne & Madagascar Slim
In Guitar Festival, Dübendorf, Switerland
Ottawa Folk Festival with Bill Bourne & Madagascar Slim
Edmonton Folk Festival with Bill Bourne & Madagascar Slim
The Margaret Greenham Theatre at the Banff Centre with Ellen MacIlwaine
1999:
Urkult Festival, Sweden
Gavle Festival, Sweden
Radio Bremen, Germany
1998:
Winnipeg Folk Music Festival
Calgary Folk Music Festival
Calgary Jazz City with Los Lobos at the Jack Singer Concert Hall
Edmonton Jazz City with Colin James at the Francis Winspear Centre For Music
Arden Theatre, Edmonton
1997:
Montreal Jazz Festival
Harbourfront Soul'N Blues Festival, Toronto
Hillside Festival, Guelph, Ontario
Harrison Festival Of The Arts
Under The Volcano Festival, Nelson, British Columbia
Gathering At The Lake
1996:
The Yellow Door, Montreal
Harbourfront, Toronto
Home Country Festival, London, Ontario
Calgary Folk Music Festival
The Islands Festival, Vancouver Island, BC
1995:
Classic Blues Festival, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Calgary Folk Music Festival
Frostbite Music Festival, Whitehorse, YT
1993:
Edmonton Folk Festival with Charles Brown & Roy Forbes
1991:
Edmonton Folk Festival with Johnny Shines, Paul James & John Hammond
1989:
The Commodore Ballroom with Colin James, Vancouver
Frostbite Music Festival, Whitehorse, YT