Pianist and vocalist Bruce Gallagher, better known as “Doc Fingers,” will perform at The Old School House Arts Centre’s (TOSH) Lounge Night on March 31.
Gallagher’s musical repertoire includes anything from jazz, to rock and roll to blues to Latin sambas and country.
His extensive song list includes more than 1,000 numbers that cover a 70-year period of musical history. In his own words, Gallagher plays “a little bit of everything and a whole lot of nothing”, a TOSH news release said.
He’s played with big names in the music industry including Frank Zappa, Chuck Berry, David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, Steve Winwood, Bo Diddley, Rita Coolidge and Qualicum Beach’s own Phil Dwyer.
Gallagher has performed at the Kinsale Fringe Jazz Festival, the Cork Jazz Festival, the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, and 13-year residency at the Pender Harbour Jazz Festival.
Known as the “skiing piano player,” Gallagher has played for many years in top ski resorts, including Whistler, and Swiss resorts Gstaad, Schonreid, Chateau d’Oex, Verbier, St. Moritz, Wengen, and the Pink Elephant Bar in the Hotel Post in Zermatt.
He was also the piano player for the International Olympic Committee’s private members lounge during the Olympic Games in Lillehammer (1994), Atlanta (1996), Nagano (1998), Sydney (2000) and Sochi (2014).
Gallagher will play two sets at TOSH (122 Fern Road W), starting at 7:30 p.m.
Doors open at 6:45 p.m.
Tickets are $35, plus tax, and can be reserved on TOSH’s website or by calling 250-752-6133.
Sixty tickets are available. Seats will be reserved by order of purchase. Spirits from True North Distilleries, wine, beer, cider and alcohol-free beverages will be available for purchase by debit and credit card.
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TOSH also has a lineup of talented musicians playing its Music on Sundays series this March and April.
Next up are Keith MacLeod (clarinet), Paula Kiffner (cello) and Robert Holliston (piano), who will play classicl music on Sunday, March 26 at 2:30 p.m. MacLeod has been described as one of Canada’s finest clarinetists.
Shruti Ramani’s Quartet will play jazz music at the arts centre on April 2, followed by more jazz by the Florian Hoefner Trio on April 16, the Giving Shapes (harp, piano and voice) on April 23.
Samuel He and the Artemisia Duo will play a concert on April 30.
Tickets for the Music on Sundays series start at $20 and are available on TOSH’s website.
Performances are approximately 75 minutes long with festival seating.
— NEWS Staff