Ken Kirschner - Live on The LUNA LOUNGE

Join us on the LUNA LOUNGE for an evening of great music featuring Ken Kirschner 

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 Ken Kirschner

My first exposure to music was sax lessons as a young kid in Fort St John where I grew up. I played baritone sax and then flute in the high school concert and jazz band (talk about both ends of the scale), then picked up a guitar somewhere around age 14 inspired by the likes of Cat Stevens, James Taylor and Jim Croce etc., leading to performing and writing in the singer/songwriter genre which is something I still do today.

I moved to Vancouver in the late 70’s to pursue a musical career, doing solo work around various pubs and at the same time studying voice and singing with the BC Boys Choir, where I was the tenor soloist.  Soon after I met Geoff Gibbons and formed the band, Silverlode.  After completing a 6-month stint in Australia, we came back to Vancouver to record our first EP which contained the song Sky High that was played on radio stations across Canada and received critical acclaim.   

We followed that up with a full-length album that won Best Independent Release at the West Coast Music Awards in 1983 among nominees such as the Payolas. This led to all kinds of great gigs, lots of touring, radio, and TV stuff like the Jimmy Ferguson Show and the Fame Game on CBC, regular appearances on CKVU’s The Vancouver Show, and a spot on the couch on The Alan Thicke Show. We also were invited to play some opening  sets for the likes of The Little River Band and Leo Sayer at the Orpheum, David Crosby, the McGarigle Sisters, Levon Helm and Rick Danko at the Commodore, Emmylou Harris at Expo Theatre – oh the memories!!!  

On a trip back home to FSJ around 2005 I was jamming around a kitchen table after a party at about 4 in the morning with some friends, playing some old country covers and tossing in some stuff we had written here and there, and we had so much fun and liked the sound so much we decided we needed to make this a project – and so the country band Big Jim and the Twins were born. We wrote a bunch, and sang a bunch, and even managed to get on a McDonalds House tour of northern BC and Alberta with Gil Grand and Jake Mathews. After that successful tour we headed down to Nashville to record our first of 2 CD’s with Gil producing and some fine Nashville musicians backing us up, changing the name of the band to Deere John at this point, lest we offend any potential CD buyers who might think we didn’t have a guy named Jim and 2 bald guys representing twins in the band.   I've had a great time performing with Deere John in my hometown of Fort St John.  

Fast forward to 2023 you'll see me in many different performances in a variety of genres, from solo performances around BC and Alberta, to Big Band Performances in 'Souled Out' playing R&B, Funk and Disco!

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Thursday, August 17th, 2023

Doors Open at 5pm, Live Music Starts at 6pm