Lester Quitzau

Event Description

With understated mastery and grace, the multiple Juno Award winning Lester Quitzau, explores the space between the notes, as much as the notes themselves. Distilling the experience of the past 38 years of writing, recording and performing, Lester has come up with an approach and style that is his own.

Lester as of late, has been creating and dispensing riveting sounds in solo and duo settings, playing major events like the Vancouver Island Music Festival and Calgary Blues Festival or intimate shows at venues such as Hermanns in Victoria, BC. Whether he’s drawing on material recorded over the years in various configurations or creating on the spot improvisational pieces with drummer Damian Graham, Quitzau is dispensing sounds where, “the musical spontaneity is very exciting for us on stage and the audience”

Canadian blues broadcasting guru Holger Petersen sums up his appreciation of Quitzau’s talents by reminding us that “Lester’s slide playing is in that rarified category and he has that great combination of skill, tone, and studied knowledge. He’s a class artist, whose music has a direct connection to the heart and soul.”