Ken Bolton

Nov 4, 2024 | whatsupyukon.com | Ken Bolton

I Sure Hope I See Northern Lights. Jocelyn GouldJocelyn Gould doesn’t let much grass grow under her feet. Oh, sure, she has a home base: in Winnipeg, the place where she was born, and which she calls a “really, really vibrant” music city. “It has real history, and a lot of art happening here for the size of the city. As far as jazz goes, it’s a smaller scene, but there are still great musicians here. But don’t expect to catch the Juno Award winner onstage at a local club just any old weekend.

Oct 14, 2024 | whatsupyukon.com | Ken Bolton |Newest Edition

Nico Paulo was only two when she moved with her parents from Toronto to Portugal, where she spent her growing-up years. “I had just graduated from design school in Lisbon and was looking for an internship. My parents said maybe I could take advantage of my dual citizenship. I was curious about it, too, so I moved to Toronto.”It didn’t take long before being exposed to, and inspired by, her birth city’s lively musical scene led her to pursue her own musical interest as a career.

Oct 14, 2024 | whatsupyukon.com | Ken Bolton

The executive producers of ZGB Productions, Tori Beemer and Justin Ziegler, were still working on their first show together at the Heart of Riverdale, when they began pitching each other ideas for a new, larger-scale collaboration. “All of a sudden, we realized that the common denominator of all these ideas was the garden. It was pretty easy, to be honest with you. We had to cut some of our ideas out of the show, because they were too much,” Ziegler explains.

Oct 7, 2024 | whatsupyukon.com | Ken Bolton

When your editor assigns you to interview someone you’ve long admired, it’s a major letdown when your quarry tries to give you the slip. Fortunately, after a few days of resistance, Sam Holloway—writer, publisher, prospector, power company trouble-shooter and more—comes through with a welcome email. “Sorry for being so contrary. I just have a fear of losing my privacy and my hermit lifestyle.”Now 77, Holloway has been a fixture on the Yukon scene for half a century, but that almost didn’t happen.

Sep 23, 2024 | whatsupyukon.com | Ken Bolton

Laura Anglade is not easy to pigeon-hole. Known primarily as a jazz singer, she readily admits being influenced by such disparate women singers as Carmen MacRae, Blossom Dearie, Amy Winehouse and Barbra Streisand. Anglade was born in southern France, but spent her first few years in Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam, where her father worked in advertising. After living in the United States from the age of five, she attended Concordia University in Montréal, where she studied to be a translator.